Fight back examines the different ways punk - as a youth/subculture - may provide space for political expression and action. Bringing together scholars from a range of academic disciplines (history, sociology, cultural studies, politics, English, music), it showcases innovative research into the diverse ways in which punk may be used and interpreted.
The essays are concerned with three main themes: identity, locality and communication. These, in turn, cover subjects relating to questions of class, age and gender; the relationship between punk, locality and socio-political context; and the ways in which punk's meaning has been expressed from within the subculture and reflected by the media. Jon Savage, the foremost commentator and curator of punk's cultural legacy, provides an afterword on punk's impact and dissemination from the 1970s to the present day.
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weve been shit on far too long, there are no equalities, no freedom, fight the system, fight back. One of the great virtues of this book is that it rekindles this righteous ire. Richard Osborne -- .
Introduction: From protest to resistance Matthew Worley, Jon Garland,
Keith Gildart, Anna Gough-Yates, Paul Hodkinson, Sian Lincoln, Bill Osgerby,
Lucy Robinson, John Street, Peter Webb
PART I: I wanna be me: punk and identity
1. If you want to live, make sure you can fight: Fighting masculinity on
the Russian punk scene Hilary Pilkington
2. Oi! Oi! Oi!: Class, locality and British punk Matthew Worley
3. Playing a-minor in the punk scene?: Exploring the articulation of
identity by older women punks Laura Way
4. Immigrant punk: The struggle for post-modern authenticity Ivan
Gololobov
5. Crass, subculture and class: The milieu culture of DIY punk Peter Webb
PART II: Transmission: Punk and place
6. Flowers of Evil: Ecosystem health and the punk poetry of John
Cooper-Clarke John Parham
7. Distortions in distance: Debates over cultural conventions in French
punk Jonathyne Briggs
8. Lo spirito continua: Torino and the Collettivo Punx Anarchici Giacomo
Bottą
9. Shared enemies, shared friends: The relational character of subcultural
ideology in the case of Czech punks and skinheads Hedvika Novotnį and
Martin Hermanskż
10. Ostpunx: East German punk in its social, political and historical context
Aimar Ventsel
PART III: When the punks go marching in: Punk, communication and production
11. Silver screen sedition: Auteurship and exploitation in the history of
punk cinema Bill Osgerby
12. Punk belongs to the punx, not business men!: British DIY punk as a form
of cultural resistance Michelle Liptrot
13. Normality kills: Discourses of normality and denormalisation in German
punk lyrics Melani Schröter
14. Militant entertainment?: Crisis music and political ephemera in the
emergent structure of feeling, 197683 Herbert Pimlott
15. Punk zines: Symbols of defiance from the print to the digital age
Matt Grimes and Tim Wall
Afterword: The cultural impact of punk: an interview with Jon Savage
Matthew Worley
Index -- .
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