“History Itself Justifies Our Presence”: Stephanie Phillips on the Erasure of Black Voices in Punk and Indie Music

Ahead of the publication of her new book, We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music, Stephanie Phillips of the band Big Joanie talks to Janan Jama about the Black representation in punk and indie music Bad Brains. Picture credit: Alex Carvalho. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 “When I first got into alternative music as a teenager in the early noughties, I felt like…