{"product_id":"nofx-forty-years-of-problematic-punk-provocations-9798765128619","title":"Nofx: Forty Years of \"Problematic\" Punk Provocations","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort push the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum. For forty years, NOFX's brand of witty, offensive, humorous, juvenile, intelligent, existential, political, politically incorrect, and\/or philosophically probing punk has reared several generations in punk attitude and ethos, for better or worse. The band pioneered melodic yet hardcore So-Cal punk style, rode the wave of mainstream punk popularity in the 1990s, protested the Bush administration in the 2000s, and continued their punk provocations up through their retirement in 2024. This book explores how NOFX pursued punk's proclivity for provocation to critique both mainstream society and the punk scene itself, how their music challenges notions of punk as simplistic, stripped-down rock requiring little musical skill, and other topics with thirteen essays from scholars in a variety of fields.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Pearson\u003c\/b\u003e is Adjunct Associate Professor at Lehman College, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStefano Morello \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Director for Digital Projects at the American Social History Project at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA. He has curated the East Bay Punk Digital Archive, The Beats in\/and Italy, and The Lung Block exhibits. He is co-editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eJAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy\u003c\/i\u003e, and serves on the editorial board of the journal \u003ci\u003eAmèrica Critica\u003c\/i\u003e and the book series \u003ci\u003eTransatlantic Transfers. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllen Bernhard\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Communication at Georgian Court University, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Punk Rock Communities: Scenes of Inclusion and Dedication\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). She is the president of the Punk Scholars Network US affiliate and sits on the editorial boards of the journal \u003ci\u003ePunk \u0026amp; Post-Punk\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eGlobal Punk\u003c\/i\u003e book series.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51812566991122,"sku":"9798765128619","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dcb72fe8-374c-4c09-a1c3-94dff7cb788f.jpg?v=1766489947","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nofx-forty-years-of-problematic-punk-provocations-9798765128619","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}