Punk category: 246 books
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's
A Secret History of Jewish Punk
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Based in part on the recent interviews with more than 125 people -among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zorn-this book focuses on punk’s beginnings in New York City to show that punk was the most Jewish of rock movements,...
Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy
The Emergence of DIY
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
This book describes the emergence of DIY punk record labels in the early 1980s. Based on interviews with sixty-one labels, including four in Spain and four in Canada, it describes the social background of those who run these labels. Especially interesting are those operated by dropouts from the middle...
We Were Going to Change the World
Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
The punk rock scene of the 1970s and ’80s in Southern California is widely acknowledged as one of the most vibrant, creative periods in all of rock and roll history. And while many books have covered the artists who contributed to the music of that era, none have exclusively focused on the vitality...
by Alissa Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Imagine witnessing Nico begging for drug money; being told off by Johnny "Rotten" Lydon; watching a punk club owner spell your name in cocaine; spending three weeks in a cramped one-room apartment with the infamous Dead Boys.Alissa Wolf experienced these outrageous moments during punk rock’s reign,...
The Day the Country Died
A History of Anarcho Punk 19801984
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In this revealing history, author, historian, and musician Ian Glasper explores in minute detail the influential and esoteric UK anarcho-punk scene of the early 1980s. Where some of the colorful punk bands from the first half of the decade were loud, political, and uncompromising, their anarcho-punk...
Punk Rock is My Religion
Straight Edge Punk and 'Religious' Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
As religion has retreated from its position and role of being the glue that holds society together, something must take its place. Utilising a focused and detailed study of Straight Edge punk (a subset of punk in which adherents abstain from drugs, alcohol and casual sex) Punk Rock is My Religion...
Cheetah Chrome
A Dead Boy's Tale: From the Front Lines of Punk Rock
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Here is the autobiography of Cheetah Chrome, lead guitarist of the Dead Boys, one of the greatest punk bands ever. It’s a tale of success--and excess: great music, drugs (he overdosed and was pronounced dead three times), and resurrection.
The Dead Boys, with roots in the band Rocket from...
My Damage
The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Hardcore punk memoir by Keith Morris, ultimate punk rock frontman and founder of Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and OFF!
Keith Morris is a true punk icon. Over the course of his forty-year career with Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and OFF!, he's battled diabetes, drug and alcohol addiction,...
Feeding Back
Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Feeding Back: Conversations with Rock’s Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock offers a counter-history of rock music through the lens of interviews with musicians including Richard Thompson, J Mascis, James Williamson, Bob Mould, Tom Verlaine, Lydia Lunch, Lee Ranaldo, Johnny Marr,...
by Sue Clayton, Kodwo Eshun, Green Gartside
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of these times seem so newly pertinent to our political...
Trapped in a Scene: UK Hardcore 1985-1989
Frontline Reports from the Hardcore Punk Underground
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The underground hardcore scene of the mid- to late-1980s was UK punk rock's last significant creative gasp. Emerging from the wreckage of the anarcho-punk scene spawned by the likes of Crass and Conflict, it took its influences from the studs 'n' leather punk bands of the early 1980s such as Discharge...
White Riot
Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of...
by Andrew Botterill
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Young Punks is the story of a young punk rocker, Mark, growing up in early 80s Britain. Set in an A-Level College, it is a story of alienation and not fitting in, of the confrontation and tension with classmates, teachers and parents caused by being different. It is also a love story as the novels main...
Bu San Bu Si
A Taiwan Punk Tale
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Bu San Bu Si—"not three not four." To the Taiwanese people, it's an idiom used to describe the punks, lowlifes, and losers of society—the ones who don't fit in, and never will. It's what they would call someone like Xiao Hei. Talented and self-destructive, young and reckless, Xiao Hei...