Punk category: 246 books
Sober Living for the Revolution
Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Examining the multigenerational impact of punk rock music, this international survey of the political-punk straight edge movement-which has persisted as a drug-free, hardcore subculture for more than 25 years-traces its history from 1980s Washington, DC, to today. Asserting that drugs are not necessarily...
Green Day
American Idiots & The New Punk Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The Green Day story is very blunt: three school friends grow up together in a cluster of small blue-collar Californian towns, form a band … and sell over 50 million albums. Except it wasn’t that simple. Self-confessed latch-key kids, theirs was far from an easy ride.
Inspired by both...
by Al Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The Wrong Outfit is a powerful novel about a boy called Adam Nedman, who grows up through the 1970s and 80s and is greatly affected by both Football and Punk. Perhaps Adam was just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or perhaps he was in the right place but at the wrong moment? He could never quite...
Punk Aesthetics and New Folk
Way Down the Old Plank Road
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Joanna Newsom, Will Oldham (a.k.a. 'Bonnie Prince Billy'), and Devendra Banhart are perhaps the best known of a generation of independent artists who use elements of folk music in contexts that are far from traditional. These (and other) so called ’new folk’ artists challenge our notions of 'finished...
Punk - Eine Jugendkultur wird erwachsen
Identität und Geschichte einer Subkultur nach drei Jahrzehnten
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Nach über dreißig Jahren sind viele Jugend- und Subkulturen verblasst - Punk jedoch ist nach wie vor präsent. Aus einer Innensicht der Szene werden in dieser Arbeit neben der historischen Entwicklung, dem Stil und der Musik dieser zum Lebenskonzept gereiften Jugendkultur ebenso ideologische Aspekte...
Rotten
No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
"I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon
Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny...
by George Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant.
When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules and took it further, putting out their own records, films and magazines and setting up a series of situationist pranks...
by Everett True
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
From their 1974 debut at New York's premier punk dive through the classic albums and blistering live sets The Ramones cut an unforgettable swathe through two decades of pop setting the scene for punk and hardcore with honed-down songs and ferocious 20 minute sets but always putting the music first....
by Viv Albertine
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
A feminist musician icon, Viv Albertine reveals the rocking, uncompromising story of her life on the front lines at the birth of the British punk movement and beyond in this exciting, humorous, and inspiring memoir.
Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50...
Please Kill Me
The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
**Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time.”-*Time Out New York*
Lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching . . . Resounds with authenticity.”-*The New York Times*
No volume serves juicier dish on punk’s...
by Paul Trynka
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
“Fellow rock stars, casual members of the public, lords and media magnates, countless thousands of people will talk of their encounters with this driven, talented, indomitable creature, a man who has plumbed the depths of depravity, yet emerged with an indisputable nobility. Each of them will share...
From the Velvets to the Voidoids
The Birth of American Punk Rock
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Exhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene's roots in the mid-1960s to the arrival of "new wave" in the early 1980s. With a cast that includes Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, the MC5, the Stooges, Talking Heads,...
Under the Big Black Sun
A Personal History of L.A. Punk
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. John Doe of the legendary band X and co-author Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary West Coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting...
Barred for Life
How Black Flag's Iconic Logo Became Punk Rock's Secret Handshake
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Cataloging the legacy of the American punk rock pioneers Black Flag, this photo documentary uses stark, contrasting portraits to share the stories of the die-hard fans who wear the iconic four-barred logo tattooed on their skin. From doctors to homeless punks, stories range from the intensely personal...