Too much fighting on the dance floor : retour sur une époque troublée au travers du Ghost Town des Specials by Gildas Lescop

“…In 1979, the Specials will introduce a dynamic and antiracist scene by mixing punk rock energy to Jamaican rythms which will make it prone to dance and initiate reflexion to a British youth then subjected to the growing influence of the National Front. …”
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« Suspect Device » : punk et violence dans l’Irlande du Nord des « Troubles » by Timothy A. Heron

“…Yet, while the conflict raged on, hundreds of young Catholics and Protestants met up week after week in shared spaces to listen to or to make punk rock music. This article seeks to examine whether and how the Northern Ireland punk scene was affected by violence in a society which was itself beset by conflict.…”
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Autenticitatea și simulacrele ei în noile contexte culturale, politice și economice by Ștefan Firică

“…Charles Guignon transferred the concept of identity from the “high” territories of elite culture to the “lower” field of pop-culture, from self-help literature and media to punk rock and heavy metal. Somogy Varga followed its trace from the first self-help manual (in mid-19th c.) to the consumerism and counter-culture of the latest decades. …”
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Auditory risk recognition is socially transmitted across territory borders in wild birds by Jakub Szymkowiak

“…Here, it has been shown that free-living birds (Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix) can learn to recognize unfamiliar, complex sounds (samples of punk rock songs) as cues of a threat from conspecifics holding adjacent territories during the spring breeding season. …”
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