PUNK! Las Americas Edition

This book explores punk music, visuals, and literature through a hemispheric lens, challenging the dominant vision of punk and repositioning it as intrinsically bound up in the history of Latin America. It compiles academic essays, punk paraphernalia, and visual segments to explore punk life through its multiple registers, offering a radical heterogenous mixture that seeks to critique the hegemonic dimensions of America in its imperial singularity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 394 pages
Publication date: 17 December 2021
Publisher: Intellect Books

When viewed through the lens of punk music, visuals, and literature, what does a hemispheric Americas look like? This is the central theme of this book, which is presented through a collage of analytical, aesthetic, and experiential perspectives on punk across the continent.

This book challenges the dominant vision of punk, particularly its white masculine protagonists and deep Anglocentrism, by analyzing punk as a critical lens into the disputed territories of America, a term that obscures 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 heterogeneous 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 artistic.

Weight: 996g
Dimension: 176 x 252 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789384154
Edition number: New ed