Rush on Punk: Beinecke Illuminated visual podcast no. 1

Our new visual podcast series takes you behind the scenes of the work, collections, and programs of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. In this inaugural episode, Tubyez Cropper, communications associate at the library, talks with Michael Rush, assistant head of the manuscript unit for accessioning. Mike shares insights his work in the library, how he first got interested in libraries and archival work, and shares details about the John Holmstrom papers and Punk magazine records (GEN MSS 951). John Holmstrom (1954-) is an American writer and cartoonist. A founding editor of Punk magazine, Holmstrom also worked for publications including The Village Voice, Heavy Metal, and High Times. Punk Magazine Punk magazine was created by John Holmstrom, Ged Dunn, and Legs McNeill in 1975. Fifteen issues were published between 1976 and 1979, with a special issue in 1981 and additional issues published in the 2000s. As Rush says, among its many holdings that document aspects of human culture from millennia ago down to the present day, the Beinecke Library collects “a lot of materials around contemporary culture, particularly counterculture.” He notes, “Punk Magazine really was a great chronicle of the Punk scene in New York and the broader scene as punk spread to the UK, and they began to encounter the Sex Pistols. That’s exactly the kind of stuff that we love. This first person account of a very notorious moment in musical and cultural history. This collection at the Beinecke Library consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, maquettes, printed materials, posters, ephemera, audiovisual materials, artwork, and other records relating to Punk Magazine and John Holmstrom. To learn more about the Beinecke Library, visit our website at https://beinecke.library.yale.edu To view a detailed description of the Holmstrom papers and Punk magazine records, visit Archives at Yale: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinec...