Call for Papers by Alastair Gordon
The KISMIF Conference 2015 will be preceded by a two-day Summer School entitled Gettin’ Undergrou... more The KISMIF Conference 2015 will be preceded by a two-day Summer School entitled Gettin’ Underground Together! The Summer School Gettin’ Underground Together! will offer an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students, including those staying on for the conference, to attend specialist master classes and discuss their research work in seminars led by top academics in the field. It is also the possibility of deepening both theoretical and methodological questions in both proximity and dialogue with some of the main world references of the urban musical scenes.
This Summer School is the result of a series of developed works in the last decade within the framework of social sciences, namely Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Arts, Sociology of Youth, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Music, Cultural Economics, Urban Studies and Urban Planning. Hence, it is important to understand the importance, functioning, process, the agents, characteristics, genres and subgenres of the current urban music scenes. The music scenes invite us to map the territory of the city in new ways while, at the same time, defining types of activities whose relationship with the territory is not easily expressed. There exists a contradiction between the growing visibility of the urban music scenes and its persistent illegitimacy as a sociological object of investigation (and also in social sciences, in a broader sense). Such a contradiction is a research challenge to pursuit. This will lead to an insightful debate about its mains aspects and structuring guidelines.
http://www.punk.pt/kismif-summer-school-2/
Newsletters by Alastair Gordon
NEWSLETTER #01 || KISMIF Conference 2015 || CALL FOR PAPERS || Crossing Borders of Underground Mu... more NEWSLETTER #01 || KISMIF Conference 2015 || CALL FOR PAPERS || Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes || Porto || Portugal
NEWSLETTER #02 || KISMIF Conference 2015 || CALL FOR PAPERS || Crossing Borders of Underground Mu... more NEWSLETTER #02 || KISMIF Conference 2015 || CALL FOR PAPERS || Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes || Porto || Portugal
Books by Alastair Gordon
Agenzia X, 2020
Una collezione di saggi, ricordi, storie e documenti sul punk anarchico in Gran Bretagna negli an... more Una collezione di saggi, ricordi, storie e documenti sul punk anarchico in Gran Bretagna negli anni del Tatcherismo, selezionati e tradotti da Giulio D'Errico per il pubblico Italiano.
Con scritti di: Russ Bestley, Greg Bull, Justine Butler, Rich Cross, Mike Dines, The Free Association, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon, Matt Grimes, Alistair Livingstone, Chris Low, Willie Rissy, Francis Stewart e Peter Webb, precedentemente pubblicati in Gran Bretagna in:
* Tales from the punkside, edited by Mike Dines & Greg Bull (Itchy monkey press, 2014)
* Not Just bits of paper, edited by Greg Bull & Mickey Penguin (Perdam Babylonis Nomen Publications/Situation Press, 2015)
* Some of us scream, some of us shout, edited by Greg Bull & Mike Dines (Itchy monkey press, 2016)
* The Aesthetic of our anger, edited by Mike Dines & Matthew Worley (Autonomedia, 2014)
Una mappa dell'anarcopunk britannico che si estende oltre Londra, mostrando la varietà delle espressioni locali di una controcultura che, forse per prima, riuscì a raggiungere città e villaggi dell'intero territorio britannico; che si estende oltre la musica, dando spazio a esperienze personali, ad altre forme d'arte e ai molteplici modi di fare politica; che si estende oltre i Crass, che con il loro ruolo di padri fondatori della scena, rischiano di oscurarne le differenze interne.
"Londra, ma anche Belfast e Bristol, i centri industriali del Nord e la brughiera del sud'ovest. I dodici capitoli di questo volume, ciascuno scritto da chi ha vissuto la scena in prima persona, presentano per la prima volta tematiche spesso ignorate come il ruolo del punk nell'abbattimento delle divisioni confessionali nell'Irlanda del Nord, l'importanza delle zine nella formazione intellettuale dei giovani punk, le manifestazioni di Stop The City nella Londra del 1983, l'incontro/scontro con i minatori in sciopero, l'apporto del femminismo, dell'animalismo e i vicoli ciechi da cui non tutti sono riusciti a salvarsi.
Alastair Gordon and Mike Dines are seeking contributions from the inter-disciplinary areas of cul... more Alastair Gordon and Mike Dines are seeking contributions from the inter-disciplinary areas of cultural studies, musicology and social sciences, for an edited text on the global punk/DiY ‘scenes’ of the 2000s onwards; reflecting upon the notion of origins, music(s), identity, legacy, membership and circulation. Aiming to continue the work of George McKay – and, most notably his DiY Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties Britain (1998) – this volume will attempt to traverse the global as a means of mapping the existence of punk/DiY post-2000. As such, this volume will adopt an essentially analytical perspective so as to raise questions initially over the dissemination of the scene and subsequently over its form, structure and cultural significance beyond the 1990s.
Journal Reviews by Alastair Gordon
Now in its second year, Keep it Simple, Make it Fast (KISMIF) is probably one of the largest conf... more Now in its second year, Keep it Simple, Make it Fast (KISMIF) is probably one of the largest conferences of underground music/culture of its kind. Convened by Andy Bennett and Paula Guerra the conference, accompanied by the pre-emptive Summer School, was a week-long event with core themes revolving around the many global underground scenes and drawing upon an impressive international range of established subcultural scholars and postgraduate researchers. As members of the conference scientific committee, and as founders of the Punk Scholars Network, we were invited to deliver keynotes at the preceding Summer School, to chair panels and to convene on a number of Summer School sessions, offering ad hoc summative commentaries to those in the panel. The Summer School offered 'an opportunity for all students (bachelor, masters, doctorate, post-doctorate) to attend specialist master classes and discuss their research work in seminars'. Its inclusion, therefore, was based upon a clear pedagogical model whereby students could discuss, disseminate and contemplate their own research. More than that, it was also important in empowering students to gain control of the academic arena, often a space solely for the 'academic'. Here, postgraduate students presented papers that ranged from political activism to urban communities, from aesthetics to mediation , and from identities to authenticity. As an academic environment, the Summer School beat many a conference: papers were presented in an often-informal basis, with students helping and signposting each other towards unknown areas of research.
Punk Scholars Network 5th Annual Conference by Alastair Gordon
‘Doing metal, being punk, doing punk, being metal: hybridity, crossover and difference in punk an... more ‘Doing metal, being punk, doing punk, being metal: hybridity, crossover and difference in punk and metal subcultures.’
Punk Scholars Network 5th Annual Conference and Postgraduate Symposium.
De Montfort University Leicester, December 13-14th 2018
Hosted by the Punk Scholars Network in conjunction with the International Association of Metal Music Studies, the Journal of Punk and Post-Punk, the Journal of Metal Music Studies, Media and Communication Research Centre and Intellect Books.
Metal and punk cultures have long shared musical and cultural similarities. From Motörhead’s ubiquitous global presence, and the complex amalgam of Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, American Hardcore, Straight Edge, Japanese-based Burning Spirits, Black Metal, and DiY cultural production, one can see a plethora of hybridised and reinterpreted global music scenes. Indeed, the pervasive influence of metal and NWOBHM from the mid-1980s onwards has had an irreversible and notable effect on both punk and metal musical and cultural aesthetics (see Glasper, forthcoming, 2018).
In spite of their broadly separate academic literatures, from their competing inceptions in the mid to late-1970s, punk and metal music studies have shared common historical theoretical and methodological approaches; yet no significant critical reflection of these research crossovers has been undertaken to date. The principle aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to critically reflect upon points of similarity, difference and hybridity in global punk and metal subcultures.
The Punk Scholars Network and The International Association of Metal Music Studies would like to invite new and established scholars in punk and metal music studies to critically interrogate such similarities and differences and to share their research: not every paper needs to discuss both punk and metal but simply by presenting research on the same panels to a mixed audience will allow a unique opportunity for researchers to cross perceived genre boundaries and learn from each others methodologies and trajectories.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
Metal and/or punk histories
Genre boundaries
Cross genre authenticities
Gender, hegemony in metal and/or punk cultures
Ethics/moral codes: differences and similarities in metal and/or punk cultures
Ethnicities and contested identities in metal and punk
Geographies, crossover and hybridity in punk and metal music scenes
Crossovers between metal and/or punk
Aesthetic crossovers in local and global punk/metal scenes
Political narratives in punk and metal music
‘Negatologies’: bullying, marginalisation, drugs and violence in punk and/or metal cultures (Gordon, 2018)
Conceptual crossover and difference
The aesthetics of virtuosity and simplicity in metal and punk
The curation of punk and metal bands on festival bills
Legacies
Hybrid cultures, audience research and ethnographies of metal and/or punk cultures
The policy and political economy of metal and punk record labels
Musical production, instrumentation and aesthetics
Art and design in metal and/or punk
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to the following link by September 16th 2018
metalpunkDMU@gmail.com
Global Punk Call for Chapters by Alastair Gordon
Following the groundbreaking publication of The Punk Reader: Transmissions from the Local to the ... more Following the groundbreaking publication of The Punk Reader: Transmissions from the Local to the Global (now in its second edition through Intellect Books and the Punk Scholars Network) the series editors would like to invite proposals for a second volume in the book series Global Punk, to be published in early 2020. The publication will be part of an exciting collaboration between Intellect Press and the Punk Scholars Network, a partnership that has seen the development of a Punk Scholars Network imprint.
Please download the complete call for chapters below.
Punk Pedagogies Conference Call for Papers by Alastair Gordon
We will be hosting a 1-2 day symposium at Mansions of the Future in Lincoln (UK) on the 4th and 5... more We will be hosting a 1-2 day symposium at Mansions of the Future in Lincoln (UK) on the 4th and 5th of July 2019* on the subject of punk pedagogies as part of the Punk Scholars’ Network’s series of themed symposiums.
Since 1997 saw the publication of “Never Mind the Tagmemics, Where’s the Sex Pistols” (CCC 48.1 pp 9 -29) there has been an increasing interest in the way in which the ethics, attitudes and people of punk rock can inform, shape, critique and revolutionise teaching pedagogies. In part this is due to the rising number of punkademics and punk teachers, but it is so much more than that. It is also because of the value for education in approaches that centre on philosophies such as Do-It-Yourself, creativity and resistance; a framework of enquiry and a toolkit that potentially helps take cynicism to critique. In short, punk can offer pedagogical tools for interrogating the world around us. However it is a two way street, and punk can learn much from newly emerging pedagogical ideas and approaches within secondary, further and higher education. This 1-2 day symposium aims to provide a space to explore, in a supportive environment, those interactions and lessons. It seeks to ask questions such as what can be gained from using punk tools and approaches as a pedagogical approach within ‘the classroom’? What can experiences and innovations in ‘the classroom’ offer to the continuing development and learning of punks and the subculture of punk rock?
Punk Scholars Network Website Launch! by Alastair Gordon
IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY!!! And we want you to share in our celebrations. The waiting is over at last an... more IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY!!! And we want you to share in our celebrations. The waiting is over at last and we can now finally reveal the exciting news we alerted you to last week. The Punk Scholars Network is celebrating 8 years of punk scholarship by launching our brand new Punk Scholars Network website https://www.punkscholarsnetwork.com/
Please go visit the fantastic new website, where you can view all the interesting and insightful work the Punk Scholars Network has been involved in since its inception in 2012, including publications and events as well as our new blog that features announcements about new punk research and other creative work. You can even buy affordable PSN merch direct from the website to help support the not-for-profit Punk Scholars Network.
If you would like to share your punk related news and developments with us, or an insightful and interesting perspective on punk you would like to contribute to our blog, you can do so through the contact page on our new website https://www.punkscholarsnetwork.com/contact
Since its humble beginnings in 2012, the Punk Scholars Network has expanded its global membership and activities through conferences, symposiums, publications, talks and exhibitions, whilst seeking to maintain its original aim as an international forum for scholarly debate. The Punk Scholars Network has also held a long-standing commitment towards the nurturing of research, not only in terms of post-doctoral output, but also through pedagogical and academic support for postgraduate and undergraduate research students whilst encouraging and supporting non-academics to pursue and develop their interests in punk scholarship.
You can connect with us via our website and follow and like us on social media:
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PunkScholars
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/punkscholars/
Papers by Alastair Gordon
Intellect Books, Feb 19, 2020
This chapter sets out to answer three questions: how did people enter punk subculture, why did th... more This chapter sets out to answer three questions: how did people enter punk subculture, why did they become involved, and what was their experience of entry? It presents the case that subcultural entrance is primarily an investigative practice propelling the participant towards an authentically styled knowledge, based around the discovery of what is deemed to be authentic punk rock. The chapter pursues such questions primarily through construction of an explanatory model detailing the social role of music and peer group relations within punk subculture
Intellect Books, Jul 15, 2019
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Call for Papers by Alastair Gordon
This Summer School is the result of a series of developed works in the last decade within the framework of social sciences, namely Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Arts, Sociology of Youth, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Music, Cultural Economics, Urban Studies and Urban Planning. Hence, it is important to understand the importance, functioning, process, the agents, characteristics, genres and subgenres of the current urban music scenes. The music scenes invite us to map the territory of the city in new ways while, at the same time, defining types of activities whose relationship with the territory is not easily expressed. There exists a contradiction between the growing visibility of the urban music scenes and its persistent illegitimacy as a sociological object of investigation (and also in social sciences, in a broader sense). Such a contradiction is a research challenge to pursuit. This will lead to an insightful debate about its mains aspects and structuring guidelines.
http://www.punk.pt/kismif-summer-school-2/
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Books by Alastair Gordon
Con scritti di: Russ Bestley, Greg Bull, Justine Butler, Rich Cross, Mike Dines, The Free Association, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon, Matt Grimes, Alistair Livingstone, Chris Low, Willie Rissy, Francis Stewart e Peter Webb, precedentemente pubblicati in Gran Bretagna in:
* Tales from the punkside, edited by Mike Dines & Greg Bull (Itchy monkey press, 2014)
* Not Just bits of paper, edited by Greg Bull & Mickey Penguin (Perdam Babylonis Nomen Publications/Situation Press, 2015)
* Some of us scream, some of us shout, edited by Greg Bull & Mike Dines (Itchy monkey press, 2016)
* The Aesthetic of our anger, edited by Mike Dines & Matthew Worley (Autonomedia, 2014)
Una mappa dell'anarcopunk britannico che si estende oltre Londra, mostrando la varietà delle espressioni locali di una controcultura che, forse per prima, riuscì a raggiungere città e villaggi dell'intero territorio britannico; che si estende oltre la musica, dando spazio a esperienze personali, ad altre forme d'arte e ai molteplici modi di fare politica; che si estende oltre i Crass, che con il loro ruolo di padri fondatori della scena, rischiano di oscurarne le differenze interne.
"Londra, ma anche Belfast e Bristol, i centri industriali del Nord e la brughiera del sud'ovest. I dodici capitoli di questo volume, ciascuno scritto da chi ha vissuto la scena in prima persona, presentano per la prima volta tematiche spesso ignorate come il ruolo del punk nell'abbattimento delle divisioni confessionali nell'Irlanda del Nord, l'importanza delle zine nella formazione intellettuale dei giovani punk, le manifestazioni di Stop The City nella Londra del 1983, l'incontro/scontro con i minatori in sciopero, l'apporto del femminismo, dell'animalismo e i vicoli ciechi da cui non tutti sono riusciti a salvarsi.
Journal Reviews by Alastair Gordon
Punk Scholars Network 5th Annual Conference by Alastair Gordon
Punk Scholars Network 5th Annual Conference and Postgraduate Symposium.
De Montfort University Leicester, December 13-14th 2018
Hosted by the Punk Scholars Network in conjunction with the International Association of Metal Music Studies, the Journal of Punk and Post-Punk, the Journal of Metal Music Studies, Media and Communication Research Centre and Intellect Books.
Metal and punk cultures have long shared musical and cultural similarities. From Motörhead’s ubiquitous global presence, and the complex amalgam of Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, American Hardcore, Straight Edge, Japanese-based Burning Spirits, Black Metal, and DiY cultural production, one can see a plethora of hybridised and reinterpreted global music scenes. Indeed, the pervasive influence of metal and NWOBHM from the mid-1980s onwards has had an irreversible and notable effect on both punk and metal musical and cultural aesthetics (see Glasper, forthcoming, 2018).
In spite of their broadly separate academic literatures, from their competing inceptions in the mid to late-1970s, punk and metal music studies have shared common historical theoretical and methodological approaches; yet no significant critical reflection of these research crossovers has been undertaken to date. The principle aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to critically reflect upon points of similarity, difference and hybridity in global punk and metal subcultures.
The Punk Scholars Network and The International Association of Metal Music Studies would like to invite new and established scholars in punk and metal music studies to critically interrogate such similarities and differences and to share their research: not every paper needs to discuss both punk and metal but simply by presenting research on the same panels to a mixed audience will allow a unique opportunity for researchers to cross perceived genre boundaries and learn from each others methodologies and trajectories.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
Metal and/or punk histories
Genre boundaries
Cross genre authenticities
Gender, hegemony in metal and/or punk cultures
Ethics/moral codes: differences and similarities in metal and/or punk cultures
Ethnicities and contested identities in metal and punk
Geographies, crossover and hybridity in punk and metal music scenes
Crossovers between metal and/or punk
Aesthetic crossovers in local and global punk/metal scenes
Political narratives in punk and metal music
‘Negatologies’: bullying, marginalisation, drugs and violence in punk and/or metal cultures (Gordon, 2018)
Conceptual crossover and difference
The aesthetics of virtuosity and simplicity in metal and punk
The curation of punk and metal bands on festival bills
Legacies
Hybrid cultures, audience research and ethnographies of metal and/or punk cultures
The policy and political economy of metal and punk record labels
Musical production, instrumentation and aesthetics
Art and design in metal and/or punk
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to the following link by September 16th 2018
metalpunkDMU@gmail.com
Global Punk Call for Chapters by Alastair Gordon
Please download the complete call for chapters below.
Punk Pedagogies Conference Call for Papers by Alastair Gordon
Since 1997 saw the publication of “Never Mind the Tagmemics, Where’s the Sex Pistols” (CCC 48.1 pp 9 -29) there has been an increasing interest in the way in which the ethics, attitudes and people of punk rock can inform, shape, critique and revolutionise teaching pedagogies. In part this is due to the rising number of punkademics and punk teachers, but it is so much more than that. It is also because of the value for education in approaches that centre on philosophies such as Do-It-Yourself, creativity and resistance; a framework of enquiry and a toolkit that potentially helps take cynicism to critique. In short, punk can offer pedagogical tools for interrogating the world around us. However it is a two way street, and punk can learn much from newly emerging pedagogical ideas and approaches within secondary, further and higher education. This 1-2 day symposium aims to provide a space to explore, in a supportive environment, those interactions and lessons. It seeks to ask questions such as what can be gained from using punk tools and approaches as a pedagogical approach within ‘the classroom’? What can experiences and innovations in ‘the classroom’ offer to the continuing development and learning of punks and the subculture of punk rock?
Punk Scholars Network Website Launch! by Alastair Gordon
Please go visit the fantastic new website, where you can view all the interesting and insightful work the Punk Scholars Network has been involved in since its inception in 2012, including publications and events as well as our new blog that features announcements about new punk research and other creative work. You can even buy affordable PSN merch direct from the website to help support the not-for-profit Punk Scholars Network.
If you would like to share your punk related news and developments with us, or an insightful and interesting perspective on punk you would like to contribute to our blog, you can do so through the contact page on our new website https://www.punkscholarsnetwork.com/contact
Since its humble beginnings in 2012, the Punk Scholars Network has expanded its global membership and activities through conferences, symposiums, publications, talks and exhibitions, whilst seeking to maintain its original aim as an international forum for scholarly debate. The Punk Scholars Network has also held a long-standing commitment towards the nurturing of research, not only in terms of post-doctoral output, but also through pedagogical and academic support for postgraduate and undergraduate research students whilst encouraging and supporting non-academics to pursue and develop their interests in punk scholarship.
You can connect with us via our website and follow and like us on social media:
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PunkScholars
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/punkscholars/
Papers by Alastair Gordon
This Summer School is the result of a series of developed works in the last decade within the framework of social sciences, namely Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Arts, Sociology of Youth, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Music, Cultural Economics, Urban Studies and Urban Planning. Hence, it is important to understand the importance, functioning, process, the agents, characteristics, genres and subgenres of the current urban music scenes. The music scenes invite us to map the territory of the city in new ways while, at the same time, defining types of activities whose relationship with the territory is not easily expressed. There exists a contradiction between the growing visibility of the urban music scenes and its persistent illegitimacy as a sociological object of investigation (and also in social sciences, in a broader sense). Such a contradiction is a research challenge to pursuit. This will lead to an insightful debate about its mains aspects and structuring guidelines.
http://www.punk.pt/kismif-summer-school-2/
Con scritti di: Russ Bestley, Greg Bull, Justine Butler, Rich Cross, Mike Dines, The Free Association, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon, Matt Grimes, Alistair Livingstone, Chris Low, Willie Rissy, Francis Stewart e Peter Webb, precedentemente pubblicati in Gran Bretagna in:
* Tales from the punkside, edited by Mike Dines & Greg Bull (Itchy monkey press, 2014)
* Not Just bits of paper, edited by Greg Bull & Mickey Penguin (Perdam Babylonis Nomen Publications/Situation Press, 2015)
* Some of us scream, some of us shout, edited by Greg Bull & Mike Dines (Itchy monkey press, 2016)
* The Aesthetic of our anger, edited by Mike Dines & Matthew Worley (Autonomedia, 2014)
Una mappa dell'anarcopunk britannico che si estende oltre Londra, mostrando la varietà delle espressioni locali di una controcultura che, forse per prima, riuscì a raggiungere città e villaggi dell'intero territorio britannico; che si estende oltre la musica, dando spazio a esperienze personali, ad altre forme d'arte e ai molteplici modi di fare politica; che si estende oltre i Crass, che con il loro ruolo di padri fondatori della scena, rischiano di oscurarne le differenze interne.
"Londra, ma anche Belfast e Bristol, i centri industriali del Nord e la brughiera del sud'ovest. I dodici capitoli di questo volume, ciascuno scritto da chi ha vissuto la scena in prima persona, presentano per la prima volta tematiche spesso ignorate come il ruolo del punk nell'abbattimento delle divisioni confessionali nell'Irlanda del Nord, l'importanza delle zine nella formazione intellettuale dei giovani punk, le manifestazioni di Stop The City nella Londra del 1983, l'incontro/scontro con i minatori in sciopero, l'apporto del femminismo, dell'animalismo e i vicoli ciechi da cui non tutti sono riusciti a salvarsi.
Punk Scholars Network 5th Annual Conference and Postgraduate Symposium.
De Montfort University Leicester, December 13-14th 2018
Hosted by the Punk Scholars Network in conjunction with the International Association of Metal Music Studies, the Journal of Punk and Post-Punk, the Journal of Metal Music Studies, Media and Communication Research Centre and Intellect Books.
Metal and punk cultures have long shared musical and cultural similarities. From Motörhead’s ubiquitous global presence, and the complex amalgam of Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, American Hardcore, Straight Edge, Japanese-based Burning Spirits, Black Metal, and DiY cultural production, one can see a plethora of hybridised and reinterpreted global music scenes. Indeed, the pervasive influence of metal and NWOBHM from the mid-1980s onwards has had an irreversible and notable effect on both punk and metal musical and cultural aesthetics (see Glasper, forthcoming, 2018).
In spite of their broadly separate academic literatures, from their competing inceptions in the mid to late-1970s, punk and metal music studies have shared common historical theoretical and methodological approaches; yet no significant critical reflection of these research crossovers has been undertaken to date. The principle aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to critically reflect upon points of similarity, difference and hybridity in global punk and metal subcultures.
The Punk Scholars Network and The International Association of Metal Music Studies would like to invite new and established scholars in punk and metal music studies to critically interrogate such similarities and differences and to share their research: not every paper needs to discuss both punk and metal but simply by presenting research on the same panels to a mixed audience will allow a unique opportunity for researchers to cross perceived genre boundaries and learn from each others methodologies and trajectories.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
Metal and/or punk histories
Genre boundaries
Cross genre authenticities
Gender, hegemony in metal and/or punk cultures
Ethics/moral codes: differences and similarities in metal and/or punk cultures
Ethnicities and contested identities in metal and punk
Geographies, crossover and hybridity in punk and metal music scenes
Crossovers between metal and/or punk
Aesthetic crossovers in local and global punk/metal scenes
Political narratives in punk and metal music
‘Negatologies’: bullying, marginalisation, drugs and violence in punk and/or metal cultures (Gordon, 2018)
Conceptual crossover and difference
The aesthetics of virtuosity and simplicity in metal and punk
The curation of punk and metal bands on festival bills
Legacies
Hybrid cultures, audience research and ethnographies of metal and/or punk cultures
The policy and political economy of metal and punk record labels
Musical production, instrumentation and aesthetics
Art and design in metal and/or punk
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to the following link by September 16th 2018
metalpunkDMU@gmail.com
Please download the complete call for chapters below.
Since 1997 saw the publication of “Never Mind the Tagmemics, Where’s the Sex Pistols” (CCC 48.1 pp 9 -29) there has been an increasing interest in the way in which the ethics, attitudes and people of punk rock can inform, shape, critique and revolutionise teaching pedagogies. In part this is due to the rising number of punkademics and punk teachers, but it is so much more than that. It is also because of the value for education in approaches that centre on philosophies such as Do-It-Yourself, creativity and resistance; a framework of enquiry and a toolkit that potentially helps take cynicism to critique. In short, punk can offer pedagogical tools for interrogating the world around us. However it is a two way street, and punk can learn much from newly emerging pedagogical ideas and approaches within secondary, further and higher education. This 1-2 day symposium aims to provide a space to explore, in a supportive environment, those interactions and lessons. It seeks to ask questions such as what can be gained from using punk tools and approaches as a pedagogical approach within ‘the classroom’? What can experiences and innovations in ‘the classroom’ offer to the continuing development and learning of punks and the subculture of punk rock?
Please go visit the fantastic new website, where you can view all the interesting and insightful work the Punk Scholars Network has been involved in since its inception in 2012, including publications and events as well as our new blog that features announcements about new punk research and other creative work. You can even buy affordable PSN merch direct from the website to help support the not-for-profit Punk Scholars Network.
If you would like to share your punk related news and developments with us, or an insightful and interesting perspective on punk you would like to contribute to our blog, you can do so through the contact page on our new website https://www.punkscholarsnetwork.com/contact
Since its humble beginnings in 2012, the Punk Scholars Network has expanded its global membership and activities through conferences, symposiums, publications, talks and exhibitions, whilst seeking to maintain its original aim as an international forum for scholarly debate. The Punk Scholars Network has also held a long-standing commitment towards the nurturing of research, not only in terms of post-doctoral output, but also through pedagogical and academic support for postgraduate and undergraduate research students whilst encouraging and supporting non-academics to pursue and develop their interests in punk scholarship.
You can connect with us via our website and follow and like us on social media:
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PunkScholars
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/punkscholars/