Hey kids, I've more or less finalized my reading list for that punk class, in case you want to read along.
What is Punk?
Pete Dale, “What is Punk?”
Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012), 23–36.
Stewart Home,
Cranked Up Really High: Genre Theory & Punk Rock (Hove, UK: Codex, 1995), chapters 1–3 (skim chapter 2).
http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/cranked/jive.htm
http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/cranked/blood.htm
http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/cranked/nomo.htm
Greil Marcus, “Prologue.”
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), 1–24.
History and Social Geography in Los Angeles Punk
Dewar MacLeod,
Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010).
The Business of Punk
Timothy Cuffman,“Idle Musical Community: Dischord Records and Anarchic DIY Practice,”
Contemporary Justice Review 18, no. 1 (2005): 4–21.
Stephen Lee,“Re-Examining the Concept of the 'Independent' Record Company: The Case of Wax Trax! Records,”
Popular Music 14, no. 1 (January 1995): 13–31.
Stacy Thompson, “Market Failure: Punk Economics, Early and Late,”
College Literature 28, no. 2 (Spring, 2001): 48–64.
Zines
Stephen Duncombe,
Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (Bloomington, IN: Microcosm Press, 2008).
Punk and Race
Otto Nomous,“Race, Anarchy, and Punk Rock: The Impact of Cultural Boundaries Within the Anarchist Movement,”
Turning the Tide 14, no. 2 (Summer 2001): np.
Roger Sabin, “‘I Won’t Let That Dago By’: Rethinking Punk and Racism,” in Roger Sabin (ed.),
Punk Rock: So What? (New York: Routledge, 1999), 199–218
Daniel S. Traber, “L. A.'s ‘White Minority’: Punk and the Contradictions of Self-Marginalization,”
Cultural Critique 48 (Spring, 2001): 30–64.
Jeremy Wallach, “Living the Punk Lifestyle in Jakarta.”
Ethnomusicology 52, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 98–116.
Washington, DC and Punk Activism
Kevin Mattson,
We’re Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Cultural War of 1980s America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).
Punk and Gender
Lauraine Leblanc,
Pretty in Punk: Girl's Gender Resistance in a Boy's Subculture (Rutgers University Press, 1999).
Riot Grrrl
Theo Cateforis and Elena Humphreys, “Constructing Communities and Identities: Riot Grrrl New York City.” In Kip Lornell and Anne K. Rasmussen (eds),
The Music of Multicultural America (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi, 2016), 395–418.
Julia Downes, “The Expansion of Punk Rock: Riot Grrl Challenges to Gender Power Relations in British Indie Music Subcultures,”
Women’s Studies 41, no. 2 (2012): 204–237.
Kristen Schilt, “‘Riot Grrrl Is …’: The Contestation Over Meaning in a Music Scene.” In Andy Bennett and Richard A. Peterson (eds),
Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004), 115–130
Straight Edge
Ross Haenfler,
Straight Edge: Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, and Social Change (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006).
Punk on Video
Suburbia, dir. Penelope Spheeris (New World Pictures, 1984).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPejY8vZWO4
“Next Stop, Nowhere,”
Quincy, M.E. , dir. Ray Danton (Universal, 1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJxxnemxmw
OR
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, dir. Lou Adler (Paramount, 1982).