Punk category: 246 books
Punk and Revolution
Seven More Interpretations of Peruvian Reality
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In Punk and Revolution Shane Greene radically uproots punk from its iconic place in First World urban culture, Anglo popular music, and the Euro-American avant-garde, situating it instead as a crucial element in Peru's culture of subversive militancy and political violence. Inspired by José Carlos...
The Poetry of Punk
The Meaning Behind Punk Rock and Hardcore Lyrics
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Punk bands have produced an abundance of poetic texts, some crude, some elaborate, in the form of song lyrics. These lyrics are an ideal means by which to trace the developments and explain the conflicts and schisms that have shaped, and continue to shape, punk culture. They can be described as the...
Smash!
Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
A group biography of '90s punk rock told through the prism of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and more
Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and changed the genre...
Punk Rock Saved My Ass
An Anthology of True Punk Rock Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Here are the true stories from people whose lives were transformed and empowered by the frenetic, questioning, creative energy of punk rock; stories and poems written by people from the USA and Europe, sharing their unique vision on what it means to be punk. Written by musicians, teachers, artists, librarians,...
Brave Punk World
The International Rock Underground from Alerta Roja to Z-Off
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Punk rock may have started in the United Kingdom and United States but it certainly didn’t stay in either country. The genre flew around the globe like a contagion, touching off simultaneous movements in nearly every market imaginable: Japan, Yugoslavia, the Philippines, South Africa, New Zealand,...
by Liz Worth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Treat Me Like Dirt captures the personalities that drove the original Toronto punk scene. This is the first book to document the histories of the Diodes, Viletones, and Teenage Head, along with other bands (B-Girls, Curse, Demics, Dishes, Forgotten Rebels, Johnny & the G-Rays, the Mods, the Poles,...
MDC: Memoir from a Damaged Civilization
Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
A searing punk memoir by an American original rebelling against conformity, complacency, and conservatism with his iconic band, MDC.
From the time Dave Dictor was young, he knew he was a little different than the all-American kids around him. Radicalized politically while in high school, inspired...
by Brenda Perlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2016
Punk Rocker is the much anticipated sequel to “L.A. Punk Rocker”: top author Brenda Perlin’s best-selling punk anthology.Here you will find a collection of short stories from those who were there in the early days. Hard core musical anarchists who saw it all, heard it all, did it all...
Punk Pedagogies
Music, Culture and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture and Learning brings together a collection of international authors to explore the possibilities, practices and implications that emerge from the union of punk and pedagogy. The punk ethos—a notoriously evasive and multifaceted beast—offers unique applications in...
DIY Punk as Education
From Mis?education to Educative Healing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Punk music and community have been a piece of United States culture since the early 1970s. Although varied scholarship on Punk exists in a variety of disciplines, the educative aspect of Punk engagement, specifically the Do?It?Yourself (DIY) ethos, has yet to be fully explored by the Education discipline....
Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications
Punk and Anarchy in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications explores the ways in which those who identify as punks and anarchists living in the Philadelphia area construct their identifications narratively through the use of ethics. The book shows that contemporary subcultural and political identifications...
Human Punk For Real
An Autobiography [English Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
If you used to be a punk, you never where!
I wasn’t even twelve years old in 1976 when I heard about this "New Thing” from England called: PUNK ROCK! Something completely new, snotty and revolutionary. A musical and verbal revolution against the Establishment! A punch right in the face of...
Going Underground
American Punk 1979–1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
An illustrated and wide-ranging survey of the underground U.S. punk scene in the 1980s The product of decades of work and multiple self-published editions, Going Underground, written by 1980s scene veteran George Hurchalla, is the most comprehensive look yet at America's nationwide underground punk...
Beyond No Future
Cultures of German Punk
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The first book of its kind in English, Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punk explores the texts and contexts of German punk cultures. Notwithstanding its "no future" sloganeering, punk has had a rich and complex life in German art and letters, in German urban landscapes, and in German...