Distributed for Intellect Ltd
PUNK! Las Américas Edition
A collective challenge to the global hegemonic vision of punk.
This book interrogates 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 hides the heterogeneous struggles, global histories, hopes, and despairs of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century experience. Compiling academic essays and punk paraphernalia (including interviews, zines, poetry, and visual segments) into a single volume, the book explores punk life through its multiple registers: vivid musical dialogues, excessive visual displays, and underground literary expression.
This book interrogates 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 hides the heterogeneous struggles, global histories, hopes, and despairs of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century experience. Compiling academic essays and punk paraphernalia (including interviews, zines, poetry, and visual segments) into a single volume, the book explores punk life through its multiple registers: vivid musical dialogues, excessive visual displays, and underground literary expression.
394 pages | 71 halftones | 6.69 x 9.61 | © 2021
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Art: Art--General Studies
Music: General Music
Reviews
Table of 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)
Martín Crudo and Shane Greene
8. Porno para Ricardo, Unplugged (comment and video transcript)
Shane Greene and Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa
CONTESTED TERRITORY 3: IDENTITY, VOICE, AND STRUGGLE
9. Sadistic Cholas: Sex and Violence in Punk Literature
Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa
10. Pa’ los jodíxs: The Anti-Movement of Borícua Punk
Judith Rodríguez
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 Rapiña
14. “I don’t care what you think and you can’t hurt me” (interview)
Alice Bag and Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa
CONTESTED TERRITORY 4: STATES, BORDERS, AND VIOLENCE
15. Punk and the Drug War in Mexico (record review and interviews)
Stuart Schrader, Yecatl Peña, Fani Suarez, Violeta Hinojosa, and Dave Rata
16. Burning Down the City (novel excerpt)
Julio Durán
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 Pérez
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 São 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
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)
Martín Crudo and Shane Greene
8. Porno para Ricardo, Unplugged (comment and video transcript)
Shane Greene and Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa
CONTESTED TERRITORY 3: IDENTITY, VOICE, AND STRUGGLE
9. Sadistic Cholas: Sex and Violence in Punk Literature
Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa
10. Pa’ los jodíxs: The Anti-Movement of Borícua Punk
Judith Rodríguez
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 Rapiña
14. “I don’t care what you think and you can’t hurt me” (interview)
Alice Bag and Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa
CONTESTED TERRITORY 4: STATES, BORDERS, AND VIOLENCE
15. Punk and the Drug War in Mexico (record review and interviews)
Stuart Schrader, Yecatl Peña, Fani Suarez, Violeta Hinojosa, and Dave Rata
16. Burning Down the City (novel excerpt)
Julio Durán
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 Pérez
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 São 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