{"id":32159,"date":"2026-08-11T08:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=32159"},"modified":"2026-08-11T08:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:36:03","slug":"book-talk-belfast-punk-the-troubles-and-inflammable-material-kevin-dunn-in-conversation-with-bill-kopp","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/event\/book-talk-belfast-punk-the-troubles-and-inflammable-material-kevin-dunn-in-conversation-with-bill-kopp\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK TALK: Belfast Punk, The Troubles and &#8216;Inflammable Material&#8217; &#8211; Kevin Dunn in conversation with Bill Kopp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kevin Dunn discusses Belfast punk, The Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Stiff Little Fingers&#8217; groundbreaking debut <em>Inflammable Material<\/em>, the focus of his new book in the 33 1\/3 series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/firestorm.coop\/products\/25424-stiff-little-fingers-inflammable-material.html\"><em>Stiff Little Fingers&#8217; Inflammable Material<\/em><\/a>\u00a0explores the band&#8217;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 \u201cAlternative Ulster\u201d was imagined and put into practice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin Dunn<\/strong> is Professor in the International Relations Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA. He is author of <em>Global Punk: Resistance and Rebellion in Everyday Life<\/em> (Bloomsbury 2016), <em>Inside African Politics<\/em> (with Pierre Englebert; 2013, 2020, and 2026), as well as the award-winning novel <em>Vicious is My Middle Name<\/em> (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 <em>Razorcake<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Kopp<\/strong> is an Asheville-based\u00a0music\u00a0journalist, speaker and author of three books.\u00a0<em>Reinventing Pink Floyd \u2013 From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>\u00a0was published in 2017.\u00a0<em>Disturbing the Peace: 415 Records and the Rise of New Wave<\/em>\u00a0was published in 2021. His latest,\u00a02005\u2019s\u00a0<em>What\u2019s the Big Idea \u2013 30 Great Concept Albums<\/em>\u00a0is based on interviews with groundbreaking artists including Pete Townshend and Bob Mould.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Dunn discusses Belfast punk, The Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Stiff Little Fingers&#8217; groundbreaking debut Inflammable Material, the focus of his new book in the 33 1\/3 series. Stiff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32160,"template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-32159","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/32159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/32159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32164,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/32159\/revisions\/32164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32159"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=32159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}