PUNK! Las Américas Edition

Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa, Rodrigo Quijano, Shane Greene, Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa, Rodrigo Quijano, Shane Greene, Rodrigo Quijano of, Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Paula Guerra, Alastair Gordon

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781789384154
• eBook ISBN: 9781789384178
• Topic: Arte
• Subtopic: Arte general

What does a hemispheric Americas look like when done through the lens of punk music, visuals and literature? That is the core premise of this book, presented through a collage of analytical, aesthetic and experiential takes on punk across the continent.

This book challenges the dominant vision of punk – particularly its white masculine protagonists and deep Anglocentrism – by analysing punk as a critical lens into the disputed territories of 'America', a term that hides the heterogeneous struggles, global histories, hopes and despairs of late twentieth and early twenty-first century experience. Compiling academic essays and punk paraphernalia (interviews, zines, poetry and visual segments) into a single volume, the book seeks to explore punk life through its multiple registers, through vivid musical dialogues, excessive visual displays and underground literary expression.

The kaleidoscopic accounts include everything from sustained academic inquiry and photo portraits to anarchist manifestos and interview excerpts with notable punk figures. The result is a radically heterogenous mixture that seeks to reposition punk and las Américas as intrinsically bound up in each other's history: for better and for worse. Out of critical pasts, within an urgent present and toward many different possible futures.

This volume critically refashions punk to suggest it emerges from within the long-term historical experience of las Américas in all their plurality and is useful as a mode of critique towards the hegemonic dimensions of America in its imperial singularity. The book is rooted in a theory of 'radical heterogeneity' and thus represents a collage-like juxtaposition of punk perspectives from across the entire hemisphere and via divergent contributions: academic, experiential and aesthetic.

Readership for this collection will include both academic and general readers.

Primary readership will be academic. It will appeal to researchers, scholars, educators and students in the following fields: American studies, Latin American studies, media and communication, cultural studies, sociology, history, music, ethnomusicology, anthropology, art, literature.

General readership will be among those interested in the following areas - anarchism, music, subculture, literature, independent publishing, photography.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Global Punk
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: ¿Otro Punk Es Posible? Heterogenous Hemisphere, Contested Territories
• Contested Territory 1: Coloniality and Cultural Resilience Essays
• Contested Territory 2: Sights, Sounds, and Im/Possible Dialogues Essays
• Contested Territory 3: Identity, Voice, and Struggle Essays
• Contested Territory 4: States, Borders, and Violence Paraphernalia
• Contested Territory 5: Individualisms of Hope and Despair Essay
• In Lieu of a Conclusion—A Punk Manifesto
• Author Biographies
• Index