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Ripped, Torn and Cut: Pop, Politics and Punk Fanzines from 1976
Keith Gildart
Manchester University Press
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9781526139078
2019
$25.00
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Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture
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I, Shithead : A Life in Punk
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My First Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories
Chris Duncan
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Straight Edge: Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, And Social Change
Ross Haenfler
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From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry
Justin Pearson
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Destroy All Movies!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film
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Talking Heads' Fear of Music (33 1/3)
Jonathan Lethem
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Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
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Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag
Stevie Chick
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In The Seventies: Adventures in the Counterculture
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I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography
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Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom
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Beyond the Music: How Punks Are Saving the World With DIY Ethics, Skills, & Values
Joe Biel
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Europunk: The Visual Culture of Punk in Europe (1976-1980)
Eric De Chassey (editor) and Jon Savage (editor)
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No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens
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Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side
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Let Fury Have the Hour: Joe Strummer, Punk, and the Movement that Shook the World
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Positive Force: More Than a Witness: 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action
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Linder: Frau/Objekt
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Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
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Phil Knight
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Viv Albertine
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Lucian Perkins
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Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
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Punk Press: Rebel Rock in the Underground Press 1968-1980
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Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot
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Legends of Punk: Photos from the Vault
Rikki Ercoli
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Dreadnaught: King of Afropunk
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From CBGB to the Roundhouse: Music Venues Through the Years
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Recombo DNA: The Story of Devo, or How the '60s Became the '80s
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Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label
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Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever
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The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar
Franz Nicolay
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Spoke: Anecdotes and Images from the Documentary Film Salad Days: a Decade of Punk in Washington, DC, '80-'90
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MDC - Memoir from a Damaged Civilization: Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption
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Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996
Andrew Earles
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Slash: A History of the Legendary L.A. Punk Magazine: 1977-1980
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Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
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The Year's Work in the Punk Bookshelf, Or, Lusty Scripts
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American Hardcore: A Tribal History
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Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music
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We Owe You Nothing: Expanded Edition: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews (Punk Planet Books)
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Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and Sound
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Absolutely Zippo!: A Fanzine's Anthology
Robert Burnett, Aaron Cometbus, Billie Joe Armstrong, Larry Livermore, and Robert Eggplant
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Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present
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Dance of Days: Updated Edition: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital
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The Band Crime: Punk 77 Revisited: A Photographic Look at the Band Crime and Punk
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The England's Dreaming Tapes
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White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
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Talk - Action = 0 (Talk Minus Action Equals Zero): An Illustrated History of D.O.A.
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Punk Rock: An Oral History
John Robb and Lars Fredriksen
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Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980–1984
Ian Glasper
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Fucked Up + Photocopied: The Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement
Bryan Ray Turcotte
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Keep Your Eyes Open: The Fugazi Photographs of Glen E. Friedman
Glen E. Friedman and Ian F. Svenonius
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My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory
Roger Miret
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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Sara Marcus
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The Race to Zero: A Collection of Words from 1994 to 2018
Justin Pearson
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Footnote
Boff Whalley
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Anger Is an Energy: A Life Uncensored
John Lydon
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
Carrie Brownstein
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We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene
Stacy Russo
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The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club
Peter Hook
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I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography
Richard Hell
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Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews. Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds
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Kim Gordon: Is It My Body? Selected Texts
Branden Wayne Joseph and Kim Gordon
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The Riot Grrrl Collection
Lisa Darms (Editor)
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Trapped in a Scene: UK Hardcore 1985-1989: Frontline Reports from the Hardcore Punk Underground
Ian Glasper
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The Best of Punk Magazine
John Holmstrom
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NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990
Tony Rettman
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Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83
Tesco Vee, Dave Stimson, and Steve Miller
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I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir
Mickey Leigh and Legs McNeil
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Death to Trad Rock
John Robb
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
Simon Reynolds
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Girl in a Band: A Memoir
Kim Gordon
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A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982
Nicholas Rombes
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Gang of Four's Entertainment!
Kevin J.H. Dettmar
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Punk 45: the Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976-80
Jon Savage
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ABC No Rio Dinero
Marc Miller and Alan W. Moore
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Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans
Ian Glasper
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All the Young Punks - Vol 2: More Punk Rockers in Their Own Words
George Berger
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The Scene that Would Not Die: Twenty Years of Post-millennial Punk in the UK
Ian Glasper
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Queercore: Como Punkear Una Revolucion
Yony Leyser
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Going Underground: American Punk
George Hurchalla
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The Story of Crass
George Berger
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Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics
Gabriel Kuhn
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The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984
Ian Glasper
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Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables: the Early Years
Alex Ogg
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
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