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to birds chirping on a rusty wire

”—Adam Bresnick

but she felt shy in front of other people

When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s

Reading his irreverent guide to jazz

Belfast Punk and the Troubles dylan to birds chirping on aBelfast punk and the Troubles is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid 1970s to the mid 80s. The book explores what it was like to be a punk in a city shaped by the violence of the Troubles, and how this differed from being a punk elsewhere. It also asks what it means to have been a punk how punk unravels as a thread throughout the lives of the people interviewed, and what that unravelling means in the context of post peace process