The Ithaca Music Forum is pleased to present Dr. Judith Peraino (Cornell University) in a timely talk:THE POLITICS OF PUNK IN THE AGE OF TRUMP.
Friday, October 26, 2018
5pm at the McHenry Lounge of the Whalen Center for Music, Ithaca College
Rightwing media outlets have dubbed Donald Trump “The Punk Rock President” to validate his rule-breaking crudeness and appeal to white working-class rage. How did this happen? What can we do about it? This presentation will confront the complex and often contradictory politics of punk songs, symbols, and representations of race and sexuality, drawing on Cornell University’s extensive punk rock archive of flyers, zines, posters, t-shirts, and ephemera.