20. Tara Lopez on the Winter of Discontent, the Bad Brains, and punk in El Paso, Texas


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Oct 11 2020 26 mins   3
My guest is Tara Martin Lopez. Tara is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences of at Northern New Mexico College. Her work focuses on the intersection between gender, race, and social movements with a particular focus on the US punk movement. She also wrote a book on one of the most tumultuous period in postwar British history, entitled “The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory and History”, which was published by Liverpool University Press in 2014. Tara and I talk about the "winter of discontent" in the UK, about "the greatest punk rock band in the world", and about the punk scene in El Paso, Texas.