Punk Beur: Popular Music, Itinerancy and Identity in Sakinna Boukhedenna's Journal 'Nationalité: immigré(e)'.

The article examines the movement, itinerancy and liminality in Sakinna Boukhedenna's autobiography "Journal Nationalité: Immigré," and how these conditions relate to the making of the postcolonial identity of Boukhedenna. The autobiography accounts the author's commentaries about the rock and proto-punk music of Lou Reed of Sex Pistols, the reggae music of Max Romeo, the Rastafarian culture, and the Arab music of Umm Kulthum.