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Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976.
List of contents
Introduction - Subcultures Network
Part I: Going underground: Process and place
1. Doing it ourselves: Countercultural and alternative radical publishing in the decade before punk - Jess Baines, Tony Credland & Mark Pawson
2. Zines and history: Zines as history - Lucy Robinson
3. Whose culture? Fanzines, politics and agency - Matthew Worley
4. Invisible women: The role of women in punk fanzine creation - Cazz Blase
Part II: Communiqués and celloptape: Constructing cultures
5. 'Pam Ponders Paul Morley's Cat': City Fun and the politics of post-punk - David Wilkinson
6. Goth 'zines: Writing from the dark underground, 1976-92 - Claire Nally
7. The evolution of an anarcho-punk narrative, 1978-84 - Russ Bestley & Rebecca Binns
8. 'Don't do as you're told, do as you think': The transgressive zine culture of industrial music in the 1970s and 1980s - Benjamin Bland
9. Are you scared to get punky? Indie pop, fanzines and punk rock - Pete Dale
Part III: Memos from the frontline: Locating the source
10. Vague post-punk memoirs, 1979-89 - Tom Vague
11. 'Mental liberation issue': Toxic Grafity's punk epiphany as subjectivity, (re)storying 'the truth of revolution' across the lifespan - Mike Diboll
12. From year zero to 1984: I was a pre-teen fanzine writer - Nicholas Bullen
13. Kick: Positive punk - Richard Cabut
14. 'This is aimed as much at us as at you': My life in fanzines - Clare Wadd
Part IV: Global communications: Continuities and distinctions
15. Punking the bibliography: RE/Search publications, the bookshelf question and ideational flow - S. Alexander Reed
16. Punks against censorship: Negotiating acceptable politics in the Dutch fanzine Raket - Kirsty Lohman
17. Contradictory self-definition and organisation: The punk scene in Munich, 1979-82 - Karl Siebengartner
18. 'Angry grrrl 'zines': Riot grrrl and body politics from the early 1990s- Laura Cofield
Index
About the author
Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton; Professor Anna Gough-Yates, University of Roehampton; Dr. Sian Lincoln, Liverpool John Moores University; Professor Bill Osgerby, London Metropolitan University; Professor Lucy Robinson, University of Sussex; Professor John Street, University of East Anglia; Dr. Pete Webb, University of the West of England; Professor Matthew Worley, University of Reading
Summary
Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind – and the politics within – the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976. -- .
