Punk in Africa
These images were taken at the newly renovated Logan Theater located at 2646 N. Milwaukee in Chicago.
The Date: April 15, 2012
The film: Punk in Africa
Producer Jefe Brown and National Wake frontman Ivan Kadey in person.
Punk rockers used sneers, safety pins, black leather, liberty spikes, and of course loud music to tell society to piss off. But as Maas and Jones reveal, in South Africa under apartheid, or in Mozambique during the civil war, the strongest statement a punk band could make was to be multiracial. Of the results, Curt Hopkins on website OkayAfrica perhaps put it best: “It wasn’t an explosion, it was an uninhibited musical miscegenation, in which punk and native musical traditions met—and screwed in the bathroom at the youth club.” —Michael W. Phillips Jr.
For more information on the Logan Square Theater, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/thelogantheatre
For more information on the feature film “Punk in Africa”, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/PunkInAfrica
Rob Benetti
rjbenetti@gmail.com
Read MoreThe Date: April 15, 2012
The film: Punk in Africa
Producer Jefe Brown and National Wake frontman Ivan Kadey in person.
Punk rockers used sneers, safety pins, black leather, liberty spikes, and of course loud music to tell society to piss off. But as Maas and Jones reveal, in South Africa under apartheid, or in Mozambique during the civil war, the strongest statement a punk band could make was to be multiracial. Of the results, Curt Hopkins on website OkayAfrica perhaps put it best: “It wasn’t an explosion, it was an uninhibited musical miscegenation, in which punk and native musical traditions met—and screwed in the bathroom at the youth club.” —Michael W. Phillips Jr.
For more information on the Logan Square Theater, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/thelogantheatre
For more information on the feature film “Punk in Africa”, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/PunkInAfrica
Rob Benetti
rjbenetti@gmail.com
