{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-punk-rock-9780190859565","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock","description":"No Future. Punk is Dead. That is what was sung and said. Yet as we approach 50 years of punk rock, it still endures, and sometime thrives. From 'White riot' to Pussy Riot, \u003cem\u003eNever Mind the Bollocks \u003c\/em\u003eto Nevermind, DIY to never gonna die, punk rock has marked or stained-it marks or stains-our musical and cultural history and practice. Here key established writers as well as emerging scholars from around the world offer critical views on punk practice and legacy, in a timely re-evaluation of its significance as music, culture, politics, nostalgia, heritage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe handbook looks at pre- and proto-punk forms, the 'high years' of c. 1976-84, the international spread of the music and style, punk media from films to fanzines, as well as a thread that may run through its entire history-the inspiring politics of DIY (Do It Yourself). Crossing and blurring disciplinary boundaries, it presents methodological innovations to offer new ways of understanding punk's significance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock\u003c\/em\u003e also identifies and explores some of punk's core contradictions: its anti-war messages alongside its (often gendered) violence, its anti-racism alongside its dominant whiteness, its energy and attitudinality as a youth culture for an aging demographic, its intermittent but persistent flirtations with populism and nationalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge McKay\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Media Studies at University of East Anglia, UK. His research interests are in popular music from jazz to punk, festivals, alternative culture and media, social movements and cultural politics, disability and music, and gardening. Among his books are \u003cem\u003eSenseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003esince the Sixties\u003c\/em\u003e (1996), \u003cem\u003eDIY Culture: Party \u0026amp; Protest in Nineties Britain\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), \u003cem\u003eGlastonbury\u003c\/em\u003e (2000), \u003cem\u003eCircular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), \u003cem\u003eRadical Gardening: Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), and \u003cem\u003eShakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability\u003c\/em\u003e (2013). georgemckay.org. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGina Arnold \u003c\/strong\u003eis a former music writer who holds a PhD. in Modern Thought \u0026amp; Literature from Stanford University, USA, and has taught courses in Critical Race Studies, Creative Nonfiction, Rhetoric and Media Studies departments at Stanford, San Jose State, the Evergreen State College and the University of San Francisco. She is the author of four books on popular music, including \u003cem\u003eRoute 666: On the Road To Nirvana\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), \u003cem\u003eKiss This\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), \u003cem\u003eExile In Guyville\u003c\/em\u003e (2014) and \u003cem\u003eHalf A Million Strong: Rock Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), and a co-editor of books on music videos and record stores.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384139251986,"sku":"9780190859565","price":204.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_abed2166-e0a3-4db8-8829-223fbe61c5ab.jpg?v=1750164358","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-punk-rock-9780190859565","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}