When we hear the word punk, we think of spitting guitars, an irreverent attitude or even combed hair. An image far from that of the discreet culture chronicler of Daily, who has fun in this new issue of Docs by Ambre Chalumeau broadcast Tuesday May 7, 2024 on TMC . Using a short practical guide to learning how to become punk at home, the journalist deciphers this movement born fifty years ago.
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Punks yesterday and today
While one might believe that punks no longer exist, it is clear that this spirit is still very much present in our society. Because punk is also an attitude. A certain radicalism, sprinkled with schoolboy humor or provocative gestures, which we still find today among the radical ecologists who throw soup on the Mona Lisa, or among the singer Izïa who imagines in the middle of a concert the lynching of Emmanuel Macron.
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Punk is also a movement that certain political figures appropriate and an adjective used to describe the slightest rebellious act. So, what does it mean to be punk in 2024? Using archive images, interviews with specialists and testimonies from punks yesterday and today, Ambre Chalumeau humorously paints a sketch of punk 2.0. And there is no doubt about it, punk is not dead (punk is not dead).
The docs of Ambre Chalumeau: are you punk ?Tuesday May 7, 2024, TMC 9:25 p.m.
