[Commlist] New book: The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock

New book:
George McKay and Gina Arnold, eds. 2025. The Oxford Handbook of Punk 
Rock. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190859565. 590pp.

Further information: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/38573

Editors’ foreword (open access): 
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/38573/chapter/512416617


No Future. Punk is Dead. That is what they sang and said. Yet as we 
approach fifty years of punk rock, it still endures, and even thrives. 
From ‘White Riot’ to Pussy Riot, /Never Mind the Bollocks/ to 
/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, and heritage. The handbook looks at pre- and proto-punk 
forms, the ‘high years’ of /c/. 1976-1984, the international spread of 
the music and style, punk media from films to fanzines, as well as a 
thread that runs through its entire history—the inspiring politics of DIY.

Crossing and blurring disciplinary boundaries, it presents 
methodological innovations to offer new ways of understanding punk’s 
significance.

The book also explores some of punk’s core contradictions: its antiwar 
messages alongside its (often gendered) violence, its antiracism 
alongside its dominant whiteness, its energy and attitudinality as a 
youth culture for an aging demographic, and its intermittent but 
persistent flirtations with populism and nationalism.


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