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.
Table of Contents
"Enjoy It, Destroy It" 40 Years of Punk Rock Scholarship Lucy WrightThe Punk Worlds of Liverpool and Manchester, 1975-1980 Nick CrossleyRiot Grrrl: Nostalgia and Historiography Elizabeth K. KeenanPunk 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 GoddardArt School Manifestos, Classical Music, and Industrial Abjection: Tracing the Artistic, Political, and Musical Antecedents of Punk Mike DinesDanger, 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. SchwartzQueer and Feminist Punk in the UK Kirsty LohmanQueer Punk, Trans Forms: Transgender Rock and Rage in a Necropolitical Age Curran NaultGuilty of Not Being White: On the Visibility and Othering of Black Punk Marcus ClaytonPunk and Aging Andy BennettIdentity? 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 WorleyPunk in Russia: From the "Declassed Elements" to the Class Struggle Ivan GololobovThe "New Flowers" of Bulgarian Punk: Cultural Translation, Local Subcultural Scenes, and Heritage Asya DraganovaIberian Punk, Cultural Metamorphoses, and Artistic Differences in the Post-Salazar and Post-Franco Eras Paula GuerraPunk in Belfast, Northern Ireland: Critical Perspectives on the Troubles and Post-conflict "Peace" Jim DonagheyFrom Punk to Poser: T-Shirts, Authenticity, Postmodernism, and the Fashion Cycle Monica Sklar and Mary Kate DonahueKicks in Style: A Punk Design Aesthetic Russ BestleyThe Art of Slouching: Posture in Punk Mary FogartyWorld's End: Punk Films from London and New York, 1977-1984 Benjamin HalliganSound Recordists, Workplaces, Technologies, and the Aesthetics of Punk Samantha BennettPunk Zines Kevin C. Dunn"Caught in a Culture Crossover!" Rock Against Racism and Alien Kulture Joe O'ConnellRethinking the Cultural Politics of Punk: Antinuclear and Antiwar (Post-)Punk Popular Music in 1980s Britain George McKayYou Ain't No Punk, You Punk: On Semiotic Doxa, Postmodern Authenticity, Ontological Agency, and the Goddamn Alt-Right Daniel S. TraberTouch Me I'm Rich: From Grunge to Alternative Nation Ryan MoorePussy Riot: Punk on Trial Judith A. PerainoDeath 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
