Punk rock may have started in the United Kingdom and United States but it certainly didn’t stay in either country. The genre flew around the globe like a contagion, touching off simultaneous movements in nearly every market imaginable: Japan, Yugoslavia, the Philippines, South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Mexico, Poland, Burma, Singapore, and Turkey, among countless others. Performing punk rock in many of these places wasn’t just rebellious, it was legitimately dangerous, thanks to regimes far more oppressive and brutal than what existed in the West. Brave Punk World immerses readers in these foreign scenes, describing the lifestyles and art of passionate, hard-charging groups who remain secret to the punk majority but who are just as crucial as the Ramones or the Sex Pistols. James Greene, Jr. explores Brazilian bands like Ulster who angrily protested and openly mocked their region's cruel dictatorship, Germans such as Slime who see many of their songs still banned to this day, the Algerian-by-way-of-France performers Carte de Séjour who had an alleged hand in inspiring the landmark Clash hit "Rock The Casbah," and a galaxy of other punk groups from more exotic locales. Punk diehards and travel enthusiasts with a taste for chaos will enjoy the country-by-country cultural explorations and wild stories offered within these pages.

パンクは英米の産物という固定観念を、本作は鮮やかに打ち砕きます。著者が描くのは、独裁政権や弾圧下で命を懸けて叫び続けた先駆者たちの軌跡です。自由を渇望する人間の根源的なエネルギーが、国境を越えて伝播していく様を浮き彫りにしたドキュメントとしての重厚さこそが、本書の持つ本質的な魅力です。 異国の爆音は、表現の自由が持つ「真の代償」を私たちに突きつけます。主流派の陰に隠れた情熱に光を当てる本書は、既存の価値観に抗う者に勇気を与える、真に「勇敢な」世界地図です。音楽を用いた魂の解放記録は、読者の知的好奇心と衝動を激しく揺さぶらずにはおきません。