What does a hemispheric Americas look like when done through the
lens of punk music, visuals and literature? That is the core
premise of this book, presented through a collage of analytical,
aesthetic and experiential takes on punk across the continent. This
book challenges the dominant vision of punk - particularly its
white masculine protagonists and deep Anglocentrism - by analysing
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
(interviews, zines, poetry and visual segments) into a single
volume, the book seeks to explore punk life through its multiple
registers, through vivid musical dialogues, excessive visual
displays and underground literary expression. The kaleidoscopic
accounts include everything from sustained academic inquiry and
photo portraits to anarchist manifestos and interview excerpts with
notable punk figures. The result is a radically heterogenous
mixture that seeks to reposition punk and las Americas as
intrinsically bound up in each other's history: for better and for
worse. Out of critical pasts, within an urgent present and toward
many different possible futures. This volume critically refashions
punk to suggest it emerges from within the long-term historical
experience of las Americas in all their plurality and is useful as
a mode of critique towards the hegemonic dimensions of America in
its imperial singularity. The book is rooted in a theory of
'radical heterogeneity' and thus represents a collage-like
juxtaposition of punk perspectives from across the entire
hemisphere and via divergent contributions: academic, experiential
and aesthetic. Readership for this collection will include both
academic and general readers. Primary readership will be academic.
It will appeal to researchers, scholars, educators and students in
the following fields: American studies, Latin American studies,
media and communication, cultural studies, sociology, history,
music, ethnomusicology, anthropology, art, literature. General
readership will be among those interested in the following areas -
anarchism, music, subculture, literature, independent publishing,
photography.
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