India, April 10 -- Since the first harsh notes rang out, the dominant story of punk has been a Western one.

To most of us, this genre of music is distinctly White-coded: created and sustained by the White working class, fuelled by insurgent Caucasian identity. But it has been a global and culturally diverse revolution from the start.

BRAIN POLICE AND PROTO-PUNK IN JAPAN

Punk music, in the 1970s, seemed custom-made for Japan.

The country was still reckoning with post-World War 2 trauma, grappling with a "bubble economy" characterised by high inflation, and maintaining its stoic global image through enforced conformity and the ostracism of outliers.

In films and music, a revolution was brewing. Horror, anger and noise would be its weap...