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Book SynopsisIn
Punk and Revolution Shane Greene radically uproots punk from its place in Western culture to situate it as a crucial element in Peru's culture of subversive militancy and political violence. Experimenting with form and content, Greene redefines how we think about punk subculture and revolutionary politics.
Trade Review"Shane Greene’s
Punk and Revolution is an impressive and important book. It has interesting things to say about punk as a musical style and subculture, and perhaps more importantly as a disposition, an aesthetic, and a political project." -- Paulo Drinot * The Americas *
"Is this work a serious academic query into the impact of punk as a political statement or a ludic, subversive challenge to the reader to question authority on all levels without adhering to any dogma? Most likely, it is both." -- Ana Torres * Journal of Global South Studies *
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Punk and Revolution provides a welcome salvo in the struggle to prise analyses of punk away from their Anglo-American moorings, and Greene’s approach in doing so provides an exemplar for all the punkademics out there who see the need to jettison academia’s arcane and conservative traditions, while retaining the essence of ethnographic rigour and critical analysis." -- Jim Donaghey * Anthropological Forum *
"Punk and Revolution shines as an archival project. . . . [Greene's] commitment to telling the story of punk through alternative styles, aesthetics, and forms will make his book appeal not only to media scholars and Latin Americanists but also to anyone interested in exploring the possibilities for anthropology through image, voice, and sound." -- Alexandra Lippman * American Ethnologist *
Table of ContentsThanks Go To . . . ix
Warning! 1
Interpretation #1 / On the Risks of Underground Rock Production 7
Interpretation #2 / El Problema de la Sub-Tierra 45
Interpretation #3 / El Problema del Pituco 52
Re:Interpretation #4 / The Tongue Is a Fire, an Agent, a Traitor 83
Interpretation #5 / The Worth of Art in Three Stages of Underproduction 112
Interpretation #6 / A Series of Situations Resulting in X 151
Interprestation #7 / Hot Revolution with Punk Pancakes (a drunken dialogue) 188
PS! 205
Notes 211
Bibliography 219
Index 225
