Screaming for Change Articulating a Unifying Philosophy of Punk Rock

by Kristiansen, Lars J.; Blaney, Joseph R.; Chidester, Philip J.; Simonds, Brent K.

• ISBN13: 9780739142745
• ISBN10: 0739142747
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Screaming for Change advances an understanding of punk rock by going beyond the traditional description of punk as a musical, political, social, and cultural genre of communication. Previous scholarship about punk rock has dealt primarily with those boundaries of genre. Past scholars have neglected to examine the ideology of punk across the decades and continents. That ideology, in a word, is deviance. Through Gramscian textual analysis, this book uncovers this ideology of deviance with some surprises along the way. Students and scholars of punk rock will value the book's attention to both well-known and more esoteric punk artists.

Author Biography

Lars J. Kristiansen is a communication PhD candidate at the University of Missouri. Joseph R. Blaney is associate professor of communication at Illinois State University and coauthor of The Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II. Philip J. Chidester is assistant professor of communication at Illinois State University. Brent K. Simonds is associate professor of communication at Illinois State University and coauthor of Communication as Critical Inquiry: Becoming Critical Producers and Consumers of Messages.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Why a Revision of Punk?	p. 1
A Brief Introduction to the Problem-A Theoretical Rationale	p. 2
Punk History	p. 2
Punk Rock-A Definitional Nightmare	p. 6
Musical Roots-Garage Rock, Proto-Punk, Punk Rock, and Beyond	p. 9
Two Waves of Punk	p. 20
Previous Ponderances of Punk	p. 25
Punk's Not Dead-"Rumors of Its Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"	p. 27
Punk as Subculture-Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies	p. 31
Postmodern Accounts-Punk as an Authentic Cultural Expression	p. 36
Punk as a Musical Genre	p. 39
Some Additional Problems with Traditional Approaches	p. 41
Punk as a Philosophical System	p. 43
Ideology-An Introduction and Definition	p. 44
Identifying the Unifying Philosophy	p. 47
Ideological Framework	p. 47
Artifacts-Punk Texts from Different Historical Periods	p. 51
Procedure-Analyzing the Artifacts	p. 55
Lyrics and Music-A Problematic Relationship	p. 59
Punk's Unifying Philosophy Uncovered	p. 63
Never Mind the Bollocks-Here's the Sex Pistols	p. 66
Bad Religion-Suffer	p. 81
Refused-The Shape of Punk to Come	p. 98
NOFX-Wolves in Wolves' Clothing	p. 111
Comparison	p. 134
Some Final Thoughts	p. 138
Conclusion	p. 143
A Unifying Philosophy of Deviance	p. 144
Significance and Limitations	p. 147
The Future Course of Punk Scholarship	p. 148
Contribution to Communication Theory	p. 149
Appendix: List of Songs Analyzed in this Study	p. 151
Bibliography	p. 155
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