Punk productions : unfinished business / Stacy Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Stacy.

Series:

SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s

SUNY series, INTERRUPTIONS: Border Testimony(ies) and Critical Discourse/s

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punk culture.

Punk rock music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stacy Thompson's Punk Productions offers a concise history of punk music and combines concepts from Marxism to psychoanalysis to identify the shared desires that punk expresses through its material productions and social relations. Thompson explores all of the major punk scenes in detail, from the early days in New York and England, through California Hardcore and the Riot Grrrls, and thoroughly examines punk record collecting, the history of the Dischord and Lookout! record labels, and 'zines produced to chronicle the various scenes over the years. While most analyses of punk address it in terms of style, Thompson grounds its aesthetics, and particularly its most combative elements, in a materialist theory of punk economics situated within the broader fields of the music industry, the commodity form, and contemporary capitalism. While punk's ultimate goal of abolishing capitalism has not been met, the punk enterprise that stands opposed to the music industry is still flourishing. Punks continue to create aesthetics that cannot be readily commodified or rendered profitable by major record labels, and punks remain committed to transforming consumers into producers, in opposition to the global economy's increasingly rapid shift toward oligopoly and monopoly.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Acronyms

You Are Not What You Own

Let's Make a Scene

Punk Aesthetics and the Poverty of the Commodity

Punk Economics and the Shame of Exchangeability

Market Failure: Punk Economics, Early and Late

Screening Punk

Beyond Punk

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.

ISBN:

9780791484609

0791484602

9781423739616

1423739612

OCLC:

62751430