Stiff Little Fingers' Inflammable Material

Kevin Dunn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-7651-3324-8 (ISBN)

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Situating the band and its groundbreaking debut within the context of The Troubles, this book explores the band’s complicated and controversial relationship with the Belfast punk scene, a scene that actively defied violent social divisions to create important non-sectarian spaces through which an “Alternative Ulster” was imagined and put into practice.

Stiff Little Fingers’ 1979 debut album, Inflammable Material, was the first independent album to ever reach the UK Top 20 and is regarded as one of the most influential punk releases of all time, containing the singles “Suspect Device” and “Alternative Ulster.” Inflammable Material was both a product of, and response to, The Troubles, the era of political violence in Northern Ireland that claimed more than 3,500 lives over three decades.

Though Inflammable Material was regarded as the clarion call for that scene, with anthemic songs now regarded as synonymous with the times, the band was often viewed with suspicion and outright hostility by many of their contemporaries.

Kevin Dunn is Professor in the International Relations Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA. He is author of Global Punk: Resistance and Rebellion in Everyday Life (Bloomsbury 2016), Inside African Politics (with Pierre Englebert; 2013, 2020, and 2026), as well as the award-winning novel Vicious is My Middle Name (2022). Active in DIY punk scenes since the 1980s, he continues to perform in several bands, runs an independent record label, publishes various zines, and is a regular contributor to the influential DIY punk zine Razorcake.

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Belfast, Punk and the Troubles
2. From Highway Star to Stiff Little Fingers
3. The Singles: “Suspect Device” and “Alternative Ulster”
4. The Songs of Inflammable Material in the context of the Troubles
5. After Lighting the Match: SLF’s troubled relationship with Belfast Punk
6. Punkwashing: The Legacy of SLF and Punk in Belfast
Bibliography
Notes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	33 1/3
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	121 x 165 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-13	979-8-7651-3324-8 / 9798765133248
Zustand	Neuware