Full Description
No Future. Punk is Dead. That is what was sung and said. Yet as we approach 50 years of punk rock, it still endures, and sometime thrives. From 'White riot' to Pussy Riot, Never Mind the Bollocks to Nevermind, DIY to never gonna die, punk rock has marked or stained-it marks or stains-our musical and cultural history and practice. Here key established writers as well as emerging scholars from around the world offer critical views on punk practice and legacy, in a timely re-evaluation of its significance as music, culture, politics, nostalgia, heritage.
The handbook looks at pre- and proto-punk forms, the 'high years' of c. 1976-84, the international spread of the music and style, punk media from films to fanzines, as well as a thread that may run through its entire history-the inspiring politics of DIY (Do It Yourself). Crossing and blurring disciplinary boundaries, it presents methodological innovations to offer new ways of understanding punk's significance.
The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock also identifies and explores some of punk's core contradictions: its anti-war messages alongside its (often gendered) violence, its anti-racism alongside its dominant whiteness, its energy and attitudinality as a youth culture for an aging demographic, its intermittent but persistent flirtations with populism and nationalism.
Contents
"Enjoy It, Destroy It" 40 Years of Punk Rock Scholarship
Lucy Wright
The Punk Worlds of Liverpool and Manchester, 1975-1980
Nick Crossley
Riot Grrrl: Nostalgia and Historiography
Elizabeth K. Keenan
Punk as Folk: Continuities and Tensions in the UK and Beyond
Pete Dale
"This Is Radio Clash": First-Generation Punk as Radical Media Ecology and Communicational Noise
Michael Goddard
Art School Manifestos, Classical Music, and Industrial Abjection: Tracing the Artistic, Political, and Musical Antecedents of Punk
Mike Dines
Danger, Anger, and Noise: The Women Punks of the Late 1970s and Their Music
Helen Reddington
"We're Just a Minor Threat" Minor Threat and the Intersectionality of Sound
Shayna Maskell
"Let's Talk about Sex": The Ear as Reproductive Organ
Jessica A. Schwartz
Queer and Feminist Punk in the UK
Kirsty Lohman
Queer Punk, Trans Forms: Transgender Rock and Rage in a Necropolitical Age
Curran Nault
Guilty of Not Being White: On the Visibility and Othering of Black Punk
Marcus Clayton
Punk and Aging
Andy Bennett
Identity? How 1970s Punk Women Live It Now
Lucy O'Brien
"I Don't Care about London": Punk in Britain's Provinces, circa 1976-1984
Matthew Worley
Punk in Russia: From the "Declassed Elements" to the Class Struggle
Ivan Gololobov
The "New Flowers" of Bulgarian Punk: Cultural Translation, Local Subcultural Scenes, and Heritage
Asya Draganova
Iberian Punk, Cultural Metamorphoses, and Artistic Differences in the Post-Salazar and Post-Franco Eras
Paula Guerra
Punk in Belfast, Northern Ireland: Critical Perspectives on the Troubles and Post-conflict "Peace"
Jim Donaghey
From Punk to Poser: T-Shirts, Authenticity, Postmodernism, and the Fashion Cycle
Monica Sklar and Mary Kate Donahue
Kicks in Style: A Punk Design Aesthetic
Russ Bestley
The Art of Slouching: Posture in Punk
Mary Fogarty
World's End: Punk Films from London and New York, 1977-1984
Benjamin Halligan
Sound Recordists, Workplaces, Technologies, and the Aesthetics of Punk
Samantha Bennett
Punk Zines
Kevin C. Dunn
"Caught in a Culture Crossover!" Rock Against Racism and Alien Kulture
Joe O'Connell
Rethinking the Cultural Politics of Punk: Antinuclear and Antiwar (Post-)Punk Popular Music in 1980s Britain
George McKay
You Ain't No Punk, You Punk: On Semiotic Doxa, Postmodern Authenticity, Ontological Agency, and the Goddamn Alt-Right
Daniel S. Traber
Touch Me I'm Rich: From Grunge to Alternative Nation
Ryan Moore
Pussy Riot: Punk on Trial
Judith A. Peraino
Death in Vegas: Punk Rock and Nostalgia
Gina Arnold
"Don't Be Afraid to Pogo!": A Queer Chicana Recovery of the Pogo and the Story of How Punk Became White
Marlén Ríos-Hernández
