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Intellect is excited to announce that Punk & Post Punk 9.1 is now available! 

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Aims & Scope

Punk & Post-Punk is a peer-reviewed journal for academics, artists, journalists and the wider cultural industries. Placing punk and its progeny at the heart of interdisciplinary investigation, it is the first forum of its kind to explore this rich and influential topic in both historical and critical theoretical terms.

Issue 9.1

Editorial

RUSS BESTLEY 

Articles

‘I thought it was a very punk rock thing to say’: NOFX’s (sort-of) public apology and (in)civility in defining contemporary punk rock in online spaces

ELLEN M. BERNHARD

‘Punks in Vegas’: Punk rock and image repair 

LARS J. KRISTIANSEN

Suffering and the Nietzschean affirmation of life in the lyrics of Bad Religion 

FILIPPOS KOURAKIS

In defence of safer spaces: Punk, privilege and safer spaces policies 

ROSEMARY LUCY HILL AND MOLLY MEGSON

Surviving through subculture: Finding undeath in psychobilly 

KIMBERLY KATTARI 

Interviews

Revisiting Ghostown, the Radiators, Tony Visconti and the sound of punk: An interview with Pete Holidai 

MICHAEL MARY MURPHY

Making photographs work: An interview with Craig Atkinson of Café Royal Books 

IAN TROWELL 

Obituaries

‘Life on the Line’: Barrie Masters, 1956–2019 

IAN CANTY

‘This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven’: Vaughan Oliver 1957–2019 

RUSS BESTLEY 

Book Reviews

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, Laura Jane Grace (2016) 

FRANCIS STEWART

Crossover the Edge: Where Hardcore, Punk and Metal Collide, Alexandros Anesiadis (2019)

MATT GRIMES

U2 and the Religious Impulse: Take Me Higher, Scott Calhoun (ed.) (2018) 

RUPERT LOYDELL

This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division – The Oral History, Jon Savage (2019) 

MICHAEL MARY MURPHY 

Working for the Clampdown: The Clash, the Dawn of Neoliberalism and the Political Promise of Punk, Colin Coulter (ed.) (2019) 

MIKE DINES

Manchester: It Never Rains… A City Primed for Punk Rock, Gareth Ashton (2019) 

RUSS BESTLEY

Mute Records: Artists, Business, History, Zuleika Beaven, Marcus O’Dair and Richard Osborne (eds) (2019)

PAUL HOLLINS

Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy, Ronen Givony (2018) 

MICHAEL MARY MURPHY

Henry Cow: The World is a Problem, Benjamin Piekut (2019) 

RUPERT LOYDELL 

Album Review

Optimism/Reject: UK DIY Punk and Post-Punk 1977–1981, 4CD Box Set, Various Artists

RUSS BESTLEY 

Exhibition Review

Kids of the Black Hole: The First Two Decades of Punk in Orange County, Chapman University in Orange Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections & Archives, Orange, California, 12 September 2018–18 December 2019 

DENISE M. JOHNSON