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To date there has been no plotting of punk scholarship which speaks to 'time', yet there are some clear bodies of work pertaining to particular issues relevant to it, including ageing and/or the life course and punk, memory and/or nostalgia and punk, 'punk history', and archiving and punk. Punk, Ageing and Time is therefore a timely (pun intended) book.
What this edited collection does for the first time is bring together contemporary investigations and discussions specifically around punk and ageing and/or time, covering areas such as: punk and ageing; the relationship between temporality and particular concepts relevant to punk (such as authenticity, DIY, identity, resistance, spatiality, style); and punk memory, remembering and/or forgetting. Multidisciplinary in nature, this book considers areas which have received very little to no academic attention previously.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Rejecting and Resisting Ageism: Female Perspectives of Ageing with Punk.- 3. Lifestyle and Memory: Profiling Two Generations of Ageing Czech Male Punks.- 4.'... And Out Come the Comps': Punk-O-Rama, Pro Skater, and Their Roles as Peak Music Experiences in a Current Punk Identity.- 5. Young Punk, Old Punk, Running Punk: Keeping the Old Ones Cool and the Young Ones Fresh.- 6. Live Fast, Die Old. Experiences of Ageing in Portuguese Punk DIY Scenes since the Late 1970s.- 7. "I'm Not Someone Who Calls Himself an Anarchist, I am an Anarchist": The Continuing Significance of Anarchism in the Later Lives of Ex-Adherents of British Anarcho-Punk.- 8. Memories of the Past, Inequalities of the Present: The Temporality of Subcultural Violence, Gender, and Authenticity.- 9. Punk, Literature and Midlife Creativity: Ordinary Stories, Ordinary Men.- 10. Exploring Older Punk Women's Conceptualisation of 'Punk' through Participant-Created Zine Pages.- 11. Working With/In: An Exploration of Queer Punk Time and Space in Collaborative Archival Workshops.- 12. Enduring Attachments: On the Temporalities of Punk.- 13. Generation Lost: Resignation, Rupture, and the Infinite Realities of Post-Future Punk.
