Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock

The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock is a critical compendium of ideas about the creative value of punk rock -- not only as a musical genre, but also as the genesis of all kinds of artistic innovation and social practices, including but not limited to DIY music labels, fashion, and media, not to mention and as a route to resistance to political oppression and capitalism. Written by scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and media studies, sociology, musicology, and art and design, this volume posits that punk rock was a truly significant artistic movement of the 20th century, and that its importance and ability to inspire people carries over to the present day.

List of 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

About the author

George McKay is Professor of Media Studies at University of East Anglia, UK. His research interests are in popular music from jazz to punk, festivals, alternative culture and media, social movements and cultural politics, disability and music, and gardening. Among his books are Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties (1996), DIY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain (1998), Glastonbury (2000), Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain (2004), Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden (2011), and Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability (2013). georgemckay.org.

Gina Arnold is a former music writer who holds a PhD. in Modern Thought & Literature from Stanford University, USA, and has taught courses in Critical Race Studies, Creative Nonfiction, Rhetoric and Media Studies departments at Stanford, San Jose State, the Evergreen State College and the University of San Francisco. She

is the author of four books on popular music, including Route 666: On the Road To Nirvana (1993), Kiss This (1997), Exile In Guyville (2014) and Half A Million Strong: Rock Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella (2018), and a co-editor of books on music videos and record stores.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: George (Professor of Media Studies Mckay
• Assisted by: Gina Arnold (Editor), Arnold Gina (Editor), George Mckay (Editor), McKay George (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.05.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9780190859565
• ISBN: 978-0-19-085956-5
• No. of pages: 616
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Punk, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, Theory of music and musicology