Johan was Punk and He Knows It. “Johan Was Punk and he Known it”, is not really a zine, but a self-published book by Johan van Leeuwen, publisher/editor/founder of the Koekrand. This is all long before my time, but the Koekrand was the ‘legendary’ Amsterdam punk zine published during the heydays of squatting. Published in 1998, and written after Johan had recovered from a brain tumor, this book is filled with small stories and flashbacks to his Amsterdam punk days: oral history of that tumultuous time. Much has been written (like this book in Dutch) about this period, much of it sociological, most of it histrionic. This one is unique because it is nerd book written by a collector who worked with his hands (he ran a printing business), not by a university trained writer seeking to place it politically or socially. It is the history of a movement through its glue; its culture, and Johan was at the centre of this. Through the corners we learn a little how people lived and how they spend their days, but most of all it talks about bands, genres, concerts, concert venues, magazines. How they started, how they operated and how they disappeared. I should mention though that he is far from Amsterdam-centric, which is always good.
more... http://www.socialfiction.org/?n=867 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
