[ecrea] New book: Punkademics

Punkademics
Edited by Zack Furness

The basement show in the ivory tower...

In the thirty years since Dick Hebdige published Subculture: The Meaning
of Style, the seemingly antithetical worlds of punk rock and academia
have converged in some rather interesting, if not peculiar, ways. A once
marginal subculture documented in homemade ‘zines and three chord songs
has become fodder for dozens of scholarly articles, books, PhD
dissertations, and conversations amongst well-mannered conference
panelists. At the same time, the academic ranks have been increasingly
infiltrated by professors and graduate students whose educations began
not in the classroom, but in the lyric sheets of 7” records and the
cramped confines of all-ages shows.

Punkademics explores these varied intersections by giving voice to some
of the people who arguably best understand the odd bedfellows of punk
and academia. In addition to being one of the first edited collections
of scholarly work on punk, it is a timely book that features original
essays, interviews, and select reprints from notable writers, musicians,
visual artists, and emerging talents who actively cut&  paste the
boundaries between punk culture, politics, and higher education.

Contributors: Milo J. Aukerman, Maria Elena Buszek, Zack Furness,
Alastair Gordon, Ross Haenfler, Curry Malott, Dylan AT Miner, Ryan
Moore, Tavia Nyong’o, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Alan O’Connor, Waleed Rashidi,
Helen L. Reddington, Stevphen Shukaitis, Michael Siciliano, Rubén
Ortiz-Torres, Estrella Torrez, Daniel S. Traber, and Brian Tucker.

“The worlds of punk and academia are deliberately dichotomous: the
‘cred’ of the former become ‘certified credentials’ when you enter the
latter. This important exploration of the space between the two is
weird, uncomfortable, and fraught with mistakes. And we don’t give a
fuck if you don’t like it.” – Anne Elizabeth Moore, author of
Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing and the Erosion of
Integrity and former editor, Punk Planet

“Zack Furness and his nerdy bunch impressively reveal how the
alternative tentacles of youthful rebellion are infiltrating and
disrupting the predictable routines of the academy.” – Craig O’Hara,
author of The Philosophy of Punk: More than Noise

PDF available freely online (http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=436).

UK release event June 7th in Brighton:
http://www.facebook.com/events/387680207937772/

Book information site:http://www.punkademics.com/

Released by Minor Compositions, Wivenhoe / Brooklyn / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions&  provocations drawing
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of
everyday life.

Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia
www.minorcompositions.info  |(minorcompositions /at/ gmail.com)

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