Trans-Global Punk Scenes

Critical engagement with local, national and trans-global contemporary punk scenes across countries and regions including New Zealand, Indonesia, South Africa, Siberia and the Philippines. Includes thematic discussions on the evolution and adaptation of subcultural styles, punk demographics and the notion of punk identity. 50 b/w illus.

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.

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 Prabhupāda: 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