ABOUT THIS BOOK

Explores the notion of identities, ideologies, and cultural discourse in contemporary global punk scenes.

Punk Identities, Punk Utopias unpacks punk and the factors that shape its increasingly complex and indefinable social, political, and economic setting. The third offering in Intellect’s Global Punk series, produced in collaboration with the Punk Scholars Network, this volume examines the broader social, political, and technological concerns that affect punk scenes around the world, from digital technology and new media to gender, ethnicity, identity, and representation.

Drawing on scholarship in cultural studies, musicology, and social sciences, this interdisciplinary collection 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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Russ Bestley is a reader in graphic design and subcultures at the London College of Communication and editor of the journal Punk & Post-Punk. Mike Dines is co-pathway leader of popular music at Middlesex University and cofounder of the Punk Scholars Network. Matt Grimes is a senior lecturer and researcher in music industries and radio at Birmingham City University’s School of Media, UK. Paula Guerra is a researcher and professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto and adjunct professor at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research in Australia.

REVIEWS

"Pushes the parameters of punk studies. . . . Highly recommended."

— CHOICE

“An excellent collection of articles that contribute to this growing range of new perspectives on punk around the globe. The collection engages with some of the more contemporary and urgent social and political issues researched through a lens of punk counterculture, offering new insights into the ways in which punk endures as a platform for empowering marginal and marginalized identities. The articles in this volume offer some new interpretations of how punk subculture intersects with more nuanced questions about gender, feminism, ethnicity and specific national scenes and examines, in some instances, how these emergent perspectives are represented in new media and digital technology. . . . Punk Identities, Punk Utopias offers readers an opportunity to reconsider and reframe punk as a discourse with surprisingly wide-reaching applications.”

— Punk & Post-Punk

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Matt Grimes and Paula Guerra

From Belfast with Love: the women and female presenting punks of Northern Ireland and

their ‘subculture’

Francis Stewart

The Power of Memory: Gender inequality among the Berlin psychobilly scene

Matt Newsom

Trans-Punk: Diy identities and new modes of subjectivity

Gareth Schott

Brazilian Riot Grrrls: History, reflections and feminist empowerment in girls

rock camps.

Gabriela Cleveston Gelain and Mike Dines

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

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

Donna McRae and Alexia Kannas

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

Japanese Live House culture

Mark Player

‘Back from the Grave’: Retro style and cultural memory in the Tokyo Garage Rock scene

José Neglia

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

hardcore punk

Lyndon C. S. Way and Dylan Wallace

Love at first sip? When Finnish hardcore punk met alcohol

Lasse Ullvén

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

authentic voice in contemporary Russia

Yngvar Steinholt