Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Out of the "Dregs of the Eighties" and Screaming at the New World Order
Chapter 2: Crust-Punk/Dis-Core and the Codification of Propaganda Music
Chapter 3: The Dystopian Sublime of Extreme Hardcore Punk
Chapter 4: Whose Rebellion was Punk in the 1990s?
Part 1: "Hispanisizing Punk"
Part 2: Not Just Boys' Fun
Chapter 5: Punk's Popularity Anxieties and the Introspective Aggression of So-Cal Punk.
Part 1: Punk's Popularity Anxieties
Part 2: The Introspective Aggression of So-Cal Punk
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

David Pearson, Adjunct assistant professor in the music department, Lehman College, CUNY

David Pearson holds a PhD in musicology from CUNY Graduate Center and is an adjunct assistant professor in the music department at Lehman College. His research focuses on American popular music of recent decades, such as punk and rap. As a saxophonist, David has performed twentieth-century and contemporary art music, jazz, rock, and various improvised musics, and currently plays in the Afrotronik funk group Digital Diaspora.

Reviews

I have never read a book about the origins of the politics of punk that includes music notation of punk songs and musicology analysis that explores the bonds of sonics and lyrics. A singular book on punk that even my jazz-piano-playing son would read!
*Michelle Cruz Gonzales, author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band*