A collective challenge to the global hegemonic vision of punk.
This book interrogates the dominant vision of punk—particularly its white masculine protagonists and deep Anglocentrism—by analyzing 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 (including interviews, zines, poetry, and visual segments) into a single volume, the book explores punk life through its multiple registers: vivid musical dialogues, excessive visual displays, and underground literary expression.
"Acknowledgments Introduction: ¿Otro Punk es Posible? Heterogeneous Histories, Contested Territories Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa, Rodrigo Quijano, and Shane Greene CONTESTED TERRITORY 1: COLONIALITY AND CULTURAL RESILIENCE 1. The punk indigenous: Mapunkys Agustina Paz Frontera 2. The Monument: The anchorage scene as colonial history Thomas Michael Swensen CONTESTED TERRITORY 2: SIGHTS, SOUNDS, AND IM/POSSIBLE DIALOGUES 3. Sonic agitation Jon Horne Carter 4. Brown gaze, feminine gaze / queer punk, latin punk Amina Cruz 5. Lima 77 Rodrigo Quijano 6. Stepping on the flowers with Brazil’s early punks Alexander S. Dent 7. “I really thought it was about fucking revolution” (interview) Martín Crudo and Shane Greene 8. Porno para Ricardo, unplugged (comment and video transcript) Shane Greene and Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa CONTESTED TERRITORY 3: IDENTITY, VOICE, AND STRUGGLE 9. Sadistic cholas: Sex and violence in punk literature Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa 10. Pa’ los jodíxs: The anti-movement of borícua punk Judith Rodríguez 11. Hysterics, rebels, and punks: Collectivity and feminism in Mexico City Merarit Viera Alcazar 12. “This is not what Afro-Punk is about” (interview) James Spooner and Shane Greene 13. Notes on femzines from Colombia (comment on zines, punk, and feminism) Minerva Campion and Rapiña 14. “I don’t care what you think and you can’t hurt me” (interview) Alice Bag and Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa CONTESTED TERRITORY 4: STATES, BORDERS, AND VIOLENCE 15. Punk and the drug war in Mexico (record review and interviews) Stuart Schrader, Yecatl Peña, Fani Suarez, Violeta Hinojosa, and Dave Rata 16. Burning Down the City (novel excerpt) Julio Durán 17. I disrespect authority: Punk disobedience and activism in post-dictatorship Argentina (comment on documentary images) Pat Pietrafesa 18. ""Los frikis”: Voices from the first wave of Cuban punk (comment and testimonial) Carmen Torre Pérez CONTESTED TERRITORY 5: INDIVIDUALISMS OF HOPE AND DESPAIR 19. Not your punk Shane Greene PARAPHERNALIA 20. “The first lesson was self-definition” (interview) Ian MacKaye and Shane Greene 21. Third world punk manifesto (poetry, manifesto, and film review) Giovanni Oquendo 22. Scene report on straightedge hardcore punk and activism at the Festival Verdurada in São Paulo (scene report) Jess Reia IN LIEU OF A CONCLUSION – A PUNK MANIFESTO 23. 40 years of punk in the world, Mexico 2017 Magos Rebelde Author Biographies Index"
Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa teaches at Lafayette College. She specializes in contemporary Latin American culture and literatures, with emphasis on the Andean region. Rodrigo Quijano is a poet and art researcher. He has worked on contemporary art exhibitions in Lima, São Paulo, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Bogotaì, and the 57 Biennial in Venice. Shane Greene is professor of anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Punk and Revolution: 7 More Interpretations of Peruvian Reality (2017, Duke University Press).
Reviews for PUNK! Las Américas Edition
'PUNK! Las Americas Edition expands the understanding of punk and serves a very important anti-colonial purpose in punk-related scholarship.' -- David Vila Dieguez, University of Texas at El Paso 'Showcasing the work and testimony of scholars, artists, and activists from Alaska to Patagonia, and many places in between, through essays, interviews, record reviews, poems, novel excerpts, photographs, zines, record and cassette covers, and manifestos, PUNK! Las Americas Edition invites us to think about punk otherwise. By critically engaging with punk as a musical genre and subculture and as an aesthetic and disposition with multiple interconnected manifestations across the hemisphere, this book demonstrates that punk has much to teach us about the Americas and that the Americas have much to teach us about punk.' -- Paulo Drinot, University College London 'This volume is a practice: it shows contradiction empirically and uses it abstractly, it distinguishes between the visual and the sonic and mixes them ch'ixi style as it does the oral and the written - but sorry: because heterogeneity is a main analytics, there is not the singular anything: sonic, visual, oral or written - and therefore, perhaps, neither of those fields should be separated ... but they are: ch'ixi style! On transgressing, this volume shows complexity and its method becomes tangible, as tangible as all the brilliant hiStories it tells and hints at. An academic book through and through, the transgressions this volume performs run the risk of becoming exemplary. An inspiring thrill to read and indeed to think through. Congratulations to its heterogenous editors!' -- Marisol de la Cadena, UC Davis