{"product_id":"orstralia-by-tristan-clark-9798887440392","title":"Orstralia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith appeal to more than just punk history obsessives, \u003ci\u003eOrstralia\u003c\/i\u003e offers an unprecedented snapshot of an underacknowledged segment of Australian life and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFar from punk's more modish North Atlantic core in the late 1970s, discontented youth in Australia were enacting similar musical and cultural reckonings. Yet in spite of Australia's purported 'laid-back' national demeanour, punks there were routinely met with insult, fist, or the police baton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore subterranean than the national scandal that was punk back in 'homeland' Britain, Australia's own bands nonetheless came to be heralded internationally. \u003ci\u003eOrstralia\u003c\/i\u003e represents the first definitive account of the country's initial years, from progenitors the Saints and Radio Birdman in the mid-70s, through the emergence of hardcore in the 1980s, to the stylistic diffusion that accompanied the transition to the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on over 130 interviews, \u003ci\u003eOrstralia\u003c\/i\u003e documents the most renowned to the most fleeting and obscure acts the nation produced. Included are equally engrossing and shocking personal narratives befitting such a passionate and intemperate cultural form, as well as punk's placement within broader Australian society at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAustralia has some claim to being a punk founder nation, most obviously through the influence of the Saints and Radio Birdman. In \u003ci\u003eOrstralia\u003c\/i\u003e, Tristan Clark explores the wider terrain to recover a vibrant prepunk, punk, and postpunk history that captures the vibrancy and excitement of a culture brimming with ingenuity and teenage verve. A brilliant book and essential reading for all those interested in punk's cultural past.\u003c\/b\u003e — Matthew Worley, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Future: Punk Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–84\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082348216556,"sku":"9798887440392","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24643443488912.jpg?v=1765273597","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/orstralia-by-tristan-clark-9798887440392","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}