PUNK! Las Américas Edition
- Editor: Greene, Shane
- Editor: Quijano, Rodrigo
- Editor: Rodriguez-Ulloa, Olga
PUNK! Las Américas Edition
- Editor: Greene, Shane
- Editor: Quijano, Rodrigo
- Editor: Rodriguez-Ulloa, Olga
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About
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.
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: ?Otro Punk es Posible? Heterogeneous Histories, Contested Territories
- Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa, Rodrigo Quijano, and Shane Greene
- CONTESTED TERRITORY 1: COLONIALITY AND CULTURAL RESILIENCE
- 1. The Indigenous Punk: Mapunkys
- Agustina Paz Frontera
- 2. The Monument: The Anchorage Scene as Colonial History
- Thomas Michael Swensen
- CONTESTED TERRITORY 2: SIGHTS, SOUNDS, AND IM/POSSIBLE DIALOGUES
- 3. Sonic Agitation
- Jon Horne Carter
- 4. Brown Gaze, Feminine Gaze / Queer Punk, Latin Punk
- Amina Cruz
- 5. Lima 77
- Rodrigo Quijano
- 6. Stepping on the Flowers with Brazil's Early Punks
- Alexander S. Dent
- 7. "I really thought it was about fucking revolution" (interview)
- Martin Crudo and Shane Greene
- 8. Porno para Ricardo, Unplugged (comment and video transcript)
- Shane Greene and Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa
- CONTESTED TERRITORY 3: IDENTITY, VOICE, AND STRUGGLE
- 9. Sadistic Cholas: Sex and Violence in Punk Literature
- Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa
- 10. Pa' los jodixs : The Anti-Movement of Boricua Punk
- Judith Rodriguez
- 11. Hysterics, Rebels, and Punks: Collectivity and Feminism in Mexico City
- Merarit Viera Alcazar
- 12. "This is not what Afro-Punk is about" (interview)
- James Spooner and Shane Greene
- 13. Notes on FemZines from Colombia (comment on zines, punk, and feminism)
- Minerva Campion and Rapina
- 14. "I don't care what you think and you can't hurt me" (interview)
- Alice Bag and Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa
- CONTESTED TERRITORY 4: STATES, BORDERS, AND VIOLENCE
- 15. Punk and the Drug War in Mexico (record review and interviews)
- Stuart Schrader, Yecatl Pena, Fani Suarez, Violeta Hinojosa, and Dave Rata
- 16. Burning Down the City (novel excerpt)
- Julio Duran
- 17. I Disrespect Authority: Punk Disobedience and Activism in Post-dictatorship Argentina (comment on documentary images)
- Pat Pietrafesa
- 18. "Los frikis": voices from the first wave of Cuban punk (comment and testimonial)
- Carmen Torre Perez
- CONTESTED TERRITORY 5: INDIVIDUALISMS OF HOPE AND DESPAIR
- 19. Not Your Punk
- Shane Greene
- PARAPHERNALIA
- 20. "The first lesson was self-definition" (interview)
- Ian MacKaye and Shane Greene
- 21. Third World Punk Manifesto (poetry, manifesto, and film review)
- Giovanni Oquendo
- 22. Straight Edge Hardcore and Activism at the Festival Verdurada in Sao Paulo (scene report)
- Jhessica Reia
- IN LIEU OF A CONCLUSION - A PUNK MANIFESTO
- 23. 40 Years of Punk in the World, Mexico 2017
- Magos Rebelde
- Author Biographies
- Index
