This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum. For forty years, NOFX's brand of witty, offensive, humorous, juvenile, intelligent, existential, political, anti-PC, and/or philosophically probing punk has reared several generations in punk attitude and ethos, for better or worse. They pioneered melodic yet hardcore So-Cal punk style, rode the wave of mainstream punk popularity in the 1990s, protested…mehr
This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum. For forty years, NOFX's brand of witty, offensive, humorous, juvenile, intelligent, existential, political, anti-PC, and/or philosophically probing punk has reared several generations in punk attitude and ethos, for better or worse. They pioneered melodic yet hardcore So-Cal punk style, rode the wave of mainstream punk popularity in the 1990s, protested the Bush administration in the 2000s, and had continued their punk provocations up through their retirement in 2024. NOFX's aesthetics of provocation and discomfort force us to think about the positive value and problems caused by a longstanding attitude within punk, namely the disposition towards shocking and offending mainstream society. Their music challenges notions of punk as simplistic, stripped-down rock requiring little musical skill, as the band has incorporated virtuosic guitar and bass playing, an array of chords and harmonic approaches, borrowings from various musical styles, and song structures of considerable complexity, broadening punk's expressive possibilities in the process. This book explores these and other contentious topics from scholars in a variety of fields.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
David Pearson is Adjunct Associate Professor at Lehman College, USA. He is the author of Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States (2021). Stefano Morello is Assistant Director for Digital Projects at the American Social History Project at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA. He has curated the East Bay Punk Digital Archive, The Beats in/and Italy, and The Lung Block exhibits. He is co-editor-in-chief of JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Amèrica Critica and the book series Transatlantic Transfers. Ellen Bernhard is Assistant Professor of Communication at Georgian Court University, USA. She is the author of Contemporary Punk Rock Communities: Scenes of Inclusion and Dedication (2019). She is the president of the Punk Scholars Network US affiliate and sits on the editorial boards of the journal Punk & Post-Punk and the Global Punk book series.
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List of Contributors Introduction: So Long, and Thanks for All the Provocations by Ellen Bernhard (Georgian Court University, USA), Stefano Morello (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA), and David Pearson (Lehman College, USA) Part 1: Punk Humor and Satire 1. They've Actually Gotten Smarter: NOFX, Rhetorical Snottiness, and Punk Continuities by David Ensminger (Lee College, USA) 2. Music Speaks Louder than Words (Or Maybe About the Same): Humor and Meaning Through NOFX's Subversion of Expectations by Jose M. Garza, Jr. (Texas State University, USA) 3. Beer and Joking in Las Vegas: Punk Humor and Punk Hypocrisy by Paul Fields (Buckinghamshire New University, UK) Part 2: Politics and Futurities 4. From No Future to Nope, Future: NOFX's Contradictory Approaches to Punk Rock in Perpetuity by Ellen Bernhard (Georgian Court University, USA) 5. Leave it to Fat Mike: PunkVoter as Infrastructure of Dissent by Stefano Morello (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) 6. The Error State: Becoming Radical While Punk Gets Liberal by Joseph Boisvere (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) Part 3: Identity and Representation 7. It's Complicated: NOFX, White Masculinity, and the Ambivalences of Punk by Justus Grebe (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany) 8. Don't Call me "Bro" and Don't Call Me Cis: Fat Mike's Queer(ed) Punk Performativity by John Ike Sewell (University of West Georgi, USA) 9. Radically Queer Community in Home Street Home by Michael Simmons (College of the Canyons, USA) Part 4: Being and Sounding Punk 10. "Kicking in Heads at the Punk Rock Show": How NOFX Performs Punk Authenticity by Robbie Segars (University of North Texas, USA) 11. Because I'm Punk! How NOFX Navigated its Social Evaluations and those of Punk Rock by Lorenz Graf-Vlachy (TU Dortmund University, Germany) and Timothy Pollock (University of Tennessee, USA) 12. Sybaritic Sounds, NOFX, and the Harmonic-Timbral Line by Lance D. Morrison (Boston University, USA) 13. The Sounds of Soul Doubt in the Music of NOFX and the Aesthetics of Gen X Romanticism by David Pearson (Lehman College, USA) Index
List of Contributors Introduction: So Long, and Thanks for All the Provocations by Ellen Bernhard (Georgian Court University, USA), Stefano Morello (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA), and David Pearson (Lehman College, USA) Part 1: Punk Humor and Satire 1. They've Actually Gotten Smarter: NOFX, Rhetorical Snottiness, and Punk Continuities by David Ensminger (Lee College, USA) 2. Music Speaks Louder than Words (Or Maybe About the Same): Humor and Meaning Through NOFX's Subversion of Expectations by Jose M. Garza, Jr. (Texas State University, USA) 3. Beer and Joking in Las Vegas: Punk Humor and Punk Hypocrisy by Paul Fields (Buckinghamshire New University, UK) Part 2: Politics and Futurities 4. From No Future to Nope, Future: NOFX's Contradictory Approaches to Punk Rock in Perpetuity by Ellen Bernhard (Georgian Court University, USA) 5. Leave it to Fat Mike: PunkVoter as Infrastructure of Dissent by Stefano Morello (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) 6. The Error State: Becoming Radical While Punk Gets Liberal by Joseph Boisvere (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) Part 3: Identity and Representation 7. It's Complicated: NOFX, White Masculinity, and the Ambivalences of Punk by Justus Grebe (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany) 8. Don't Call me "Bro" and Don't Call Me Cis: Fat Mike's Queer(ed) Punk Performativity by John Ike Sewell (University of West Georgi, USA) 9. Radically Queer Community in Home Street Home by Michael Simmons (College of the Canyons, USA) Part 4: Being and Sounding Punk 10. "Kicking in Heads at the Punk Rock Show": How NOFX Performs Punk Authenticity by Robbie Segars (University of North Texas, USA) 11. Because I'm Punk! How NOFX Navigated its Social Evaluations and those of Punk Rock by Lorenz Graf-Vlachy (TU Dortmund University, Germany) and Timothy Pollock (University of Tennessee, USA) 12. Sybaritic Sounds, NOFX, and the Harmonic-Timbral Line by Lance D. Morrison (Boston University, USA) 13. The Sounds of Soul Doubt in the Music of NOFX and the Aesthetics of Gen X Romanticism by David Pearson (Lehman College, USA) Index
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