Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Volume 2 (9781789383379): Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair "Gords" Gordon and Paula Guerra

ABOUT THIS BOOK

While the punk scenes and subcultures of the late 1970s and early 1980s are well known and well documented, the proliferation of punk after the year 2000 has been far less studied. Picking up where The Punk Reader left off, Trans-Global Punk Scenes examines the global influence of punk in the new millennium, with a focus on punk demographics, the evolution of subcultural punk styles, and the notion of punk identity across cultural and geographic boundaries.

International in scope and analytical in perspective, the chapters offer insight into the dissemination of punk scenes and their form, structure, and contemporary cultural significance in New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, Ireland, South Africa, Mexico, the UK, the US, Siberia, and the Philippines.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Russ Bestley is the editor of Punk & Post-Punk and leads the graphic subcultures research hub at the London College of Communication. Mike Dines is co-pathway leader of popular music at Middlesex University in London and co-founder of the Punk Scholars Network. Alastair Gordon is a senior lecturer of media and communication at De Montfort University. Paula Guerra is a researcher and professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto and adjunct professor at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research in Australia.

REVIEWS

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-Punk

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Yes, But Is It Punk?

Mark Edward Achtermann

2. Re-thinking punk discourse and purpose: A case study of Muslim Punk in Java

Elise Papineau

3. ’Mutants of the 67th parallel north’: Punk performance and the transformation of everyday life

Hilary Pilkington

4. Looking beyond music: Curating and narrating punk subculture in Singapore

Kai Khiun Liew and J. Patrick Williams

5. Taurunga music sux! DIY punk culture in Aotearoa

Kyle Barrett and Wairehu Grant

6. Filipino-American punk

Junior Tidal

7. Punk space in Bandung, Indonesia: Evasion and confrontation

Jim Donaghey and Frans Ari Prasetyo

8. Welcome to the ’modern age’: The imagery of punk from the 1970s in the redefinition of the New York music scene of the 2000s and beyond

Paula Guerra and Thiago Pereira Alberto

9. Going through the motions: Punk nostalgia and conformity

Russ Bestley

10. Always now: Punk in Washington DC, 2010–19

John R. Davis

11. Punk’s not dead but its organs are being harvested in Ireland

Michael Mary Murphy

12. From punk rock to Prabhupada: Locating the musical, philosophical and spiritual journey of contemporary Krishnacore

Mike Dines

13. Gore, absurdity and injustice: Narco aesthetics as local transgressions in grind and power violence: A perspective from Mexico’s musical subcultures

José Omar González Hernández

14. Fuck off! Fokofpolisiekar’s Afrikaans punk in the postcolony

Schalk D. van der Merwe

15. So far, so close: Contemporary faces of Portugese and Brazilian punk scenes

Paula Guerra and Pedro Menezes

Author Biographies

Index