Punk Identities, Punk Utopias

This new volume in the acclaimed Global Punk series extends the critical enquiry to reflect broader social, political and technological concerns impacting punk scenes around the world, with international contributors, ranging through topics from digital technology and new media to gender, ethnicity, identity and representation. 50 b/w photographs.

Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media seeks to unpack and illuminate punk as a trajectory of ‘timelesness…as a set of diverse but confluent values and appropriations’ that have both reflected and informed an increasingly complex, indefinable social, political and economic setting. Whereas the first two volumes in the series were broadly focused on local punk ‘scenes’ in a disparate range of countries and regions around the world, Punk Identities, Punk Utopias extends that critical enquiry to reflect broader social, political and technological concerns impacting punk scenes around the world, from digital technology and new media to gender, ethnicity, identity and representation. This new volume therefore draws upon the interdisciplinary areas of cultural studies, musicology and social sciences to present an edited text on the notion of identities, ideologies and cultural discourse surrounding contemporary global punk scenes. It is hoped that the books in the Global Punk series will add to the academic discussion of contemporary popular culture, particularly in relation to punk and the critical understanding of transnational and cross-cultural dialogue.

Punk is a global phenomenon and the Global Punk series aims to reflect contemporary scenes around the world since the millennium. Punk and its subsequent variants, from hardcore to post-punk, have always crossed borders and become assimilated within countercultural practices with local, national and regional variations.

Produced in collaboration between the Punk Scholars Network and Intellect Books, the Global Punk book series focuses on the development of contemporary global punk (c. 2000 onwards), reflecting upon its origins, aesthetics, identity, legacy, membership and circulation. Critical approaches draw upon the interdisciplinary areas of (among others) cultural studies, art and design, sociology, musicology and social sciences in order to develop a broad and inclusive picture of punk and punk-inspired subcultural developments around the globe. The series adopts an essentially analytical perspective, raising questions about the dissemination of punk scenes and subcultures 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 appealed. It will be a key resource for established academics, postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students, as well as being suitable for adoption as an undergraduate student textbook. Suitable courses will include those in the fields of popular music, youth culture, sociology, urban/cultural geography, political history, heritage studies, media and cultural studies.

Introduction

 Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Matt Grimes and Paula Guerra

1. From Belfast with love: The women and female presenting punks of Northern Ireland and  

      their ‘subculture’

      Francis Stewart

2. The power of memory: Gender inequality among the Berlin psychobilly scene

      Matthew D. Newsom

3. Trans-Punk: DIY identities and new modes of subjectivity

      Gareth Schott 

4. Brazilian riot grrrls: History, reflections and feminist empowerment in girls

      rock camps

      Gabriela Cleveston Gelain and Mike Dines

5. Not just Riot Grrrls! Punk rock feminism in the Philippines

      Monica Schoop

6.   Not just boys’ fun: Punks, pariah femininities, and challenges to gender hegemony

      Steve Moog

7. Say a spell: Summoning the ghosts of post-punk Melbourne

      Donna McRae and Alexia Kannas

8. Keeping Japanese punk film (A)LIVE: Shôzin Fukui’s concert-screening hybridity and

       Japanese live house culture

       Mark Player

9. ‘Back from the Grave’: Retro style and cultural memory in the Tokyo garage rock scene

      José Neglia

10. The punks, the web, local concerns and global appeal: Cultural hybridity in Turkish

          hardcore punk

      Lyndon C. S. Way and Dylan Wallace

11. Love at first sip? When Finnish hardcore punk met alcohol

        Lasse Ullvén

12. Punk is punk but by no means punk: Definition, genre evasion and the quest for an

          authentic voice in contemporary Russia

          Yngvar Bordewich Steinholt