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It Starts With Anger: A Punk Beginning. An Afropunk Ending.
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From The AwardWinning Filmmaker And Graphic Novelist, Comes The Untold Origin Story Of The MultiMillionDollar Afropunk FestivalBeginning Not With Big Stages Or Brand Sponsorship, But With One MixedRace TeenagerS Search For Belonging In The Nineties New York City Punk Scene.In 1991, FifteenYearOld James Spooner Arrives In New YorkS West Village, Hopeful That HeS Finally Escaped The Extremist Racism Of His Southern California Desert Town. Still, A Question Looms Large Over His CrossCountry Move: What Will New York City Make Of This Tartan PlaidAndLeatherClad, Mixed Race, Black Kid With A Mohawk? Will He Find His People? Thus Begins SpoonerS InsiderS Account Of The Nineties Downtown New York Punk And Early Aughts PreGiuliani Nightlife Scenes. In The CityS Legendary Rock Clubs, Squat Basements, And Diy Art Spaces, He Finds His Way To Creating Zines, Starting A Record Label, And Promoting Parties, While Falling Further In Love With Punk RockS Distorted Guitars And Politically Progressive Lyrics. Happy To Have Left A World Of Nazi Skins Behind He Must Still Navigate The Casual Racism And Bigotry Of A Seemingly AllWhite Echo Chamber; A World Stubbornly Resistant To His Black/Punk Identity.Intent On Carving A Space For Young, Black, Politically Radical Punk Rockers Like Himself, Spooner Undertakes A Whirlwind Tour Of The Country, Collecting The Stories That Will Become His Acclaimed Documentary, AfroPunk, And Eventually Lead To The Wildly Successful Music Festival Of The Same Name. But What Begins As A Way To Chronicle The Joys And Heartaches Of Being Black And Punk Rock Soon Spirals Into A MultimillionDollar Corporate Endeavor. Spooner Is Forced To Ask Himself: In Setting Out To Galvanize An Underground Movement, Has He In Fact Given Rise To The Least Punk Rock Thing Of AllA Brand?Illustrated With A Vibrant Mix Of Comics, Spot Art, And Punk Ephemera Throughout, It Starts With Anger Is At Once A ComingOfAge Story About Found Family, A Compelling Capitalist Cautionary Tale, And A Raucous Celebration Of The Indelible, Rebellious Spirit Of Black Punks.
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