S3E7: Steel City Outsiders and the Institutional Avant-Garde | “The Year Punk Broke (in Pittsburgh)”

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S3E7: Steel City Outsiders and the Institutional Avant-Garde | “The Year Punk Broke (in Pittsburgh)”

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In 1976, punk started making headlines in New York and England, and by 1977, punk was central to a growing community of Pittsburghers in the neighborhood of Oakland. The punk scene spanned communities. The riotous onslaught of earnestly played guitars ringed through houses, bars, and the halls of Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. Flyers sprung up on telephone polls. At Pittsburgh Filmmakers, 8mm cameras brought in a new era of low-budget narrative filmmaking that broke from the Structuralist trends of the 1970s while still avoiding the trappings of Hollywood. This is a story about the first wave of punk in Pittsburgh.

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