The volume collects Hungarian punk and punk-adjacent bands active between 1975 and 1990 in a lexicon-like format, in a bilingual – Hungarian and English – edition. The 448-page book presents nearly 514 bands, publishes about 150 lyrics, and contains approximately 250 photos, about half of which have never appeared in print or online before.



The author of the book is Béla Ács-Tari, with more than fifteen years of research behind the publication. The content was compiled from processing hundreds of personal and online conversations, thousands of newspaper articles, and internet interviews. One of the starting points of the collection work was the author's blog named Karanténzóna, where he began publishing audio materials, pictures, and information about Hungarian bands of the eighties – this work continues to this day with minor interruptions. The basic idea of the encyclopedia was provided by the Illustrated Rock Encyclopedia published in 1987, which was considered a fundamental work at the time, and the Hungarian Oi! & SKA Lexicon edited by Sándor Kaszap also served as inspiration. The recently published volume is a comprehensive, organized imprint of the Hungarian punk scene of the era; and according to the author's plans, further materials accumulated on the subject may receive independent processing in later publications.



The book is currently available at the following locations:
Budapest: Wave, Giháda, Rockdiszkont, Kalóz records
Szeged: Néma Papagáj, Szolnok: Szkítia bookstore

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