Events › Author Talk: Nancy Barile — I'm Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-and-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion

Presented as part of our Revolutionary Music: Music for Social Change Programmatic Theme.

From disenchanted Catholic schoolgirl and glam maniac to instigator on the 1980s hardcore punk scene, Nancy Barile discovered freedom at a time when punk music was new and dangerous. She made her place behind the boards and right in the front row as insurgents such as SSD, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys and Black Flag wrote new rules and made history. She survived punk riots and urban decay, ran the streets with outcasts, and ultimately found true love as she fought for fairness and found her purpose.

Nancy Barile is a National Board Certified, award-winning high school English Language Arts teacher, an Adjunct Professor, writer, and author of I’m Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-and-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion available at bazillionpoints.com and How Much Art Can You Take? available at deathwishinc.com. She lives outside Boston with her husband Al Barile.

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