Screening: Punk in Africa
Thursday, February 28th 2013  7:00pm
San Francisco, CA

http://www.atasite.org/2013/02/punk-in-africa/

PUNK IN AFRICA traces this until-now untold story from its roots in the underground rock music of early 1970s Johannesburg, the first multi-racial punk bands formed in the wake of the Soweto Uprising and the militant anti-apartheid hardcore and post-punk bands of the 1980s to the rise of celebratory African-inspired ska bands which sprang up from Cape Town to Maputo in the democratic era of the 1990s. Today, an emerging generation of bands continue to draw on this legacy to confront the political challenges of contemporary Zimbabwe and the uncertain identity issues of the Afrikaans minority in South Africa as the scene also begins to spread across the rest of the African continent. Directed by Keith Jones and Deon Maas, TRT 82 min.

Location:
Artists Television Access
998 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA