In Search of Titos Punks: On the Road in a Country That No Longer Exists Phillips Barry
A look at the vibrant punk scene that exploded in Yugoslavia during Marshal Josip Broz Tito's final years.In 1981, Demob, a young multiracial punk rock band from a stagnating provincial English city,…
Specifikacia In Search of Titos Punks: On the Road in a Country That No Longer Exists Phillips Barry
A look at the vibrant punk scene that exploded in Yugoslavia during Marshal Josip Broz Tito's final years.In 1981, Demob, a young multiracial punk rock band from a stagnating provincial English city, recorded "No Room For You," a song that sold a few thousand copies before fading into history. The bass player was eighteen-year-old Barry Phillips, and in 2011, he received a Facebook message letting him know that the song was famous throughout the Balkans and had been covered by notable Yugoslavian punk bands. Hoping to understand how Demob's song had taken root in the communist-era Balkans, Phillips traveled to the former Yugoslavia to learn about the punk scene that emerged in the waning years of Josip Broz Tito's rule. From Ljubljana to Rijeka to Novi Sad, Yugoslavia boasted one of the most dynamic punk rock and new wave scenes in the world. Rooted not only in western punk