Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Volume 2 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789383374 ISBN 13: 9781789383379

Publisher: Intellect Books, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Russ Bestley is reader in graphic design and subcultures at the London College of Communication, editor of the journal Punk & Post-Punk and co-editor of the Global Punk book series published by Intellect Books and the Punk Scholars Network. His research archive can be accessed at https://www.hitsvilleuk.com.

Contact: London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB, UK.

Mike Dines is programme leader for BA (Hons) Music at Middlesex University in London, United Kingdom. As a musician, writer, scholar and DIY punk publisher, Mike has written extensively in the field of subcultures and punk and is currently Chair of the Punk Scholars Network.

Contact: Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT, UK.

Paula Guerra is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the Universidade do Porto, and a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the same university (IS-UP). She is also associate professor of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Australia.

Contact: Via Panorâmica, s/n, Porto 4150-564, Portugal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789383374
• ISBN 13: 9781789383379
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Bestley Russ, Dines Mike, Guerra Paula, Gordon Alastair