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Decolonization, decolonial excess, and punk: reflections on the cultural politics of race and coloniality in North Atlantic punk
Cultural Studies ( IF 1.533 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 , DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2020.1855454
Maxwell Woods 1
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ABSTRACT

This article explores the decolonial foundations at the beginning of punk in the United States and England during the 1970s and 80s. More precisely, it investigates the work of Bad Brains and John Lydon (both during his time with the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd.) to see how they staked out a particular decolonial position from within punk. This article's argument is triple. First, I argue that Bad Brains struggled with the tension of placing their identity as Black men formed through a decolonial engagement with Rastafari and reggae into dialogue with a punk community dominated by white, middle-class musicians. The case of Bad Brains demonstrates both how decoloniality formed a part of punk's foundations and how white members of punk rejected this mode of thought. Second, the patriarchal masculinity underlying Bad Brains's mode of Rastafari – one that was explicitly homophobic and misogynistic – demonstrates how discourses of decolonization themselves can serve to further the oppression of colonized subjects. In other words, some forms of decolonial agency exceeded the representational capacity of Bad Brains's discourse of decolonization, becoming in effect what I call a decolonial excess. Third, I argue that John Lydon attempted to construct a vision of punk decoloniality based on such a decolonial excess. What emerges with this discourse, however, is that Lydon failed to fully recognize the relationship between such a decolonial excess and the politics of decolonization. As such, if this article on the one hand examines the historical problem of the decolonial foundations of punk in Washington DC and London, on the other hand it illuminates the tension between national decolonization and decolonial excess.



中文翻译:

去殖民化、去殖民化过度和朋克:对北大西洋朋克中种族和殖民文化政治的反思

摘要

本文探讨了 1970 年代和 80 年代美国和英国朋克初期的去殖民主义基础。更准确地说,它调查了 Bad Brains 和 John Lydon(均在 Sex Pistols 和 Public Image Ltd. 任职期间)的工作,以了解他们如何从朋克中确立一个特定的非殖民主义立场。这篇文章的论点是三重的。首先,我认为 Bad Brains 在将自己的黑人身份置于与拉斯塔法里和雷鬼的非殖民化接触中形成的压力中挣扎,与由白人中产阶级音乐家主导的朋克社区对话。Bad Brains 的案例展示了非殖民性如何成为朋克基础的一部分,以及朋克的白人成员如何拒绝这种思维方式。其次,“坏脑”背后的父权制男子气概 拉斯塔法里的模式——一种明显的恐同和厌恶女性的模式——展示了非殖民化话语本身如何有助于进一步压迫被殖民者。换句话说,某些形式的非殖民化机构超出了坏脑的非殖民化话语的代表能力,实际上成为我所说的非殖民主义过剩。第三,我认为约翰·莱登试图在这种非殖民主义过度的基础上构建朋克非殖民主义的愿景。然而,随着这种话语的出现,莱登未能充分认识到这种非殖民化过度与非殖民化政治之间的关系。因此,如果这篇文章一方面考察了华盛顿和伦敦朋克的去殖民化基础的历史问题,另一方面它阐明了国家去殖民化和去殖民化过度之间的紧张关系。

更新日期:2020-12-22
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