Publication: Laura Way, Matt Grimes: Punk, Ageing and Time
Punk, Ageing and Time (edited by Laura Way and Matt Grimes),
and part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music series, is now published and available to purchase, hard cover or e-book, via the Palgrave MacMillan/Springer Link website. The book is the first to focus on punk and time by bringing together punk, time, temporality and ageing. The contributing authors provide the book with an international outlook. Scholars can view the list of fantastic contributors, order a copy for their institutional library and add to students’ reading lists now.
To date there has been no plotting of punk scholarship which speaks to ‘time’, yet there are some clear bodies of work pertaining to particular issues relevant to it, including ageing and/or the life course and punk, memory and/or nostalgia and punk, ‘punk history’, and archiving and punk. Punk, Ageing and Time is therefore a timely (pun intended) book.
What this edited collection does for the first time is bring together contemporary investigations and discussions specifically around punk and ageing and/or time, covering areas such as: punk and ageing; the relationship between temporality and particular concepts relevant to punk (such as authenticity, DIY, identity, resistance, spatiality, style); and punk memory, remembering and/or forgetting. Multidisciplinary in nature, this book considers areas which have received very little to no academic attention previously.