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Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground

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Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground book

Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground

DOI link for Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground

Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground book

ByPete Dale
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 15 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315567365
Pages 256 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315567365
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Dale, P. (2012). Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315567365

For more than three decades, a punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it'. This underground punk movement has evolved via several micro-traditions, each offering distinct and novel presentations of what punk is, isn't, or should be. Underlying all these punk micro-traditions is a politics of empowerment that claims to be anarchistic in character, in the sense that it is contingent upon a spontaneous will to liberty (anyone can do it - in theory). How valid, though, is punk's faith in anarchistic empowerment? Exploring theories from Derrida and Marx, Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground examines the cultural history and politics of punk. In its political resistance, punk bears an ideological relationship to the folk movement, but punk's faith in novelty and spontaneous liberty distinguish it from folk: where punk's traditions, from the 1970s onwards, have tended to search for an anarchistic 'new-sense', folk singers have more often been socialist/Marxist traditionalists, especially during the 1950s and 60s. Detailed case studies show the continuities and differences between four micro-traditions of punk: anarcho-punk, cutie/'C86', riot grrrl and math rock, thus surveying UK and US punk-related scenes of the 1980s, 1990s and beyond.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I: Anyone Can Do – What?

chapter 1|14 pages

What is Punk?

chapter 2|18 pages

The Folk ‘Us’

chapter 3|14 pages

Punk as Folk

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion to Part I

part |2 pages

Part II: Can Any One Do ‘It’?

chapter 4|18 pages

Punk, Avant-gardism and Novelty

chapter 5|16 pages

Marxism, Anarchism and the Issue of Universality

chapter 6|16 pages

Justice to Come and the Micromatic Recoil

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion to Part II

part |2 pages

Part III: The Beginning of a Continuation

chapter |2 pages

Interlude 1: An Original Rebirth?

chapter 7|16 pages

There is no Authority, But …

chapter 8|16 pages

Indie Pop Ain’t Noise Pollution

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion to Part III

part |2 pages

Part IV: The Continuation of a Beginning

chapter |4 pages

Interlude 2: Still Birth?

chapter 9|18 pages

The Arrival of a New, Renegade, Girl-Boy Hyper-Nation

chapter 10|18 pages

Delivering the Groceries at 138 Beats per Minute

chapter |2 pages

Conclusion to Part IV

chapter |12 pages

Conclusion

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