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Trans-Global Punk Scenes

The Punk Reader Volume 2

Paula Guerra editor Alastair Gordon editor Russ Bestley editor Mike Dines editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Intellect

Published:19th Apr '21

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This new collection is the second in the Global Punk series. Following the publication of the first volume the series editors invited proposals for a second volume, and selected contributions from a range of interdisciplinary areas, including cultural studies, musicology, ethnography, art and design, history and the social sciences.

This collection extends the theme into new territories, with a particular emphasis on contemporary global punk scenes, post-2000, reflecting upon the notion of origin, music(s), identity, careers, membership and circulation.

This area of subcultural studies is far less documented than more ‘historical’ work related to earlier punk scenes and subcultures of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This new volume covers countries and regions including New Zealand, Indonesia, Cuba, Ireland, South Africa, Siberia and the Philippines, alongside thematic discussions relating to trans-global scenes, the evolution of subcultural styles, punk demographics and the notion of punk identity across cultural and geographic boundaries.

The book series adopts an essentially analytical perspective, raising questions over the dissemination of punk scenes and their form, structure and contemporary cultural significance in the daily lives of an increasing number of people around the world.

This book has a genuine crossover market, being designed in such a way that it can be adopted as an undergraduate student textbook while at the same time having important currency as a key resource for established academics, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students.

In terms of the undergraduate market for the book, it is likely that it will be adopted by convenors of courses on popular music, youth culture and in discipline areas such as sociology, popular music studies, urban/cultural geography, political history, heritage studies, media and cultural studies.

'Comprising scholarly articles that incorporate subjects and contributors from across six continents, Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol. 2 outdoes its 2019 predecessor in its geographical scope, even as it narrows its focus mostly to punk scenes in the twenty-first century. [...] And while the fifteen chapters they have brought together here are varied in their subject-matter and methods, they are unified in demonstrating how punk music, aesthetics, attitudes and do-it-yourself (DIY) strategies are being both ‘adopted’ and ‘adapted’ across the globe, taking on ‘aspects of local traditions, language, and practice to create a new scene and a range of culturally specific new styles’ (13). [...] Russ Bestley’s analysis of UK punk in the context of the ‘revival’ and festival circuits digs into the often-overlooked labour and intergenerational cooperation required in their creation. In this chapter, Bestley laments that most punk scholarship dwells on the ‘spectacular’ rather than ‘the ordinary’ (183), and where this volume focuses on the latter its greatest strengths are apparent.'

-- Maria Elena Buszek, Punk & Post-

ISBN: 9781789383379

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340 pages