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The Society of Australian Punk Inc. (SOAP) is a non-profit association that aims to give a legitimate voice to Australian punk research by officially representing both the academic and non-academic research into the Australian punk subculture. This blog features Australian and international punk projects, research and articles...

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Punk Films and Videos from the UK, USA and Canada

A ton of films, documentaries and videos have been made about the punk subculture in both the UK and the USA, spanning back to 1976 until the present day.  Below is a huge list of punk films, documentaries and videos that you can watch for free - Enjoy!

1977: Is PUNK ROCK a Threat to BRITISH SOCIETY?

1980: Ruefrex - Belfast Punk Documentary

25 Years of Punk Documentary

A Band Called Death - Before There Was Punk

A Brief History of Horror Punk - Anarchy in the World

A Brief History of Post-Punk - Anarchy in the World 

A HISTORY LESSON Punk Rock in Los Angeles in 1984 

A Unique Punk Landscape 

Adam & the Ants - Banshees & other Creatures

AFROPUNK: The Movie

Anarchism in America (1983) - Documentary on the American Anarchy Movement.

Another State of Mind

BBC Archive - Punk

BBC The Story of Skinhead - Don Letts

Before 1976 Revisited: How Punk Became Punk

Black Flag Reality 86'd

Brass Tacks PUNK documentary Manchester 1977

By Any Means: A Brief History of Black Flag: Part 1 - 1976-1980, Part 2: 1980-1986

Bunchofuckingoofs (BFG) New Music 1989

CBGB'S DOCUMENTARY 1978

Circle Jerks - My Career as a Jerk

Clockwork Orange County

Crass - Steve Ignorant on Crass. Un-Cut

Crass - There is No Authority But Yourself

Dancing in the Streets - No Fun

Dead on Arrival - The Punk Documentary That Almost Never Was

D.O.A. A Rite of Passage (1981)

Ears, Eyes and Throats: Restored Classic and Lost Punk Films 1976-1981

Fresh Fruit For Rotting Eyeballs (Dead Kennedys) 

God Save The Sex Pistols | Full Punk Documentary

Greetings from New York 1983

History of Punk: Sound of Rebellion

Inside Sid Vicious' Final Day: Drugs, Death, and the Mystery of Nancy Spungen

Islington Squatter Punk Documentary,  1983

Live Fast Die: The GG Allin story

London Ontario Punk Rock Documentary - Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Made in Belfast

Made in Huddersfield

My Way - The Sid Vicious Story

Never Mind The Baubles - Christmas '77 with The Sex Pistols

NOT DEAD YET -  Toronto 83 Hardcore Punk Scene

OFF!'s Keith Morris talks about his time in Black Flag & Circle Jerks

One Nine Nine Four: 90's Punk Rock

Punk : ??? - A (very) DIY documentary

Punk '76

Punk 76-79 (the Vancouver scene) - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

Punk And Disorderly

Punk & The New Wave 1976-1978 ~ The Way They Were

Punk & The Pistols 1995

Punk Attitude

PUNK BRITTANIA

Punk Britannia Part 1 (1972-1976)

Punk Britannia Part 2 (1976-1978)

Punk Britannia Part 3 (1978-1981)

Punk feature on 'Review' - Ulster TV - 1978

Punk In Drublic Documentary

Punk in London

Punk The Early Years (1978)

Punk's Not Dead

Riot Grrrl: The '90s Movement that Redefined Punk

Ramones - Rock Milestones

Rock Family Trees: Banshees and Other Creatures

Rock Family Trees - New York Punk - Parts 1, 2, 4,

SLC Punk Full Movies - 1 & 2

Sex Pistols: In Their Own Words

Sex Pistols - Live in The USA

Sid Vicious on EAUGTV

So Cal punk documentary

Somewhere to Go: Punk Victoria

Sounds of the 70s - Punk (Anarchy on the BBC)

Step Up and Be Vocal (Queer Punk)

Suburbia

The Art of Punk - Black Flag - Art + Music

The Art of Punk - Crass - The Art of Dave King and Gee Vaucher

The Art of Punk - Dead Kennedys - The Art of Winston Smith

The Blank Generation (1976)

The Clash - bbc4 documentary

The Culture Show "Girls Will Be Girls" BBC 2 Women in Punk

The day the country died - history of anarcho punk

The Decline of Western Civilization

The Disrupters, The story of a Punk band

The Exploited

The London Weekend Show Punk Rock 

The Punk Rock Movie

The Shape of PUNK CINEMA

The Slits: the first female punk band

The Slog Movie

The Year of Punk Documentary London Weekend Television

Under The Influence: 2 Tone Ska 

Under The Influence: New York Hardcore

Urban Struggle

Visual Vitriol; The Art Of Punk

Where Did Punk Start?

Who Killed Nancy?

X - The Unheard Music Documentary

You Weren't There

Related Articles:

Ears, Eyes and Throats: Restored Classic and Lost Punk Films 1976-1981

Related Websites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_punk_films

Related Books:

Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film /  Video preview of the book.

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Anarcho-Punk

Related PDFs:

Art + Squat = X

Becoming Anarchist: the function of anarchist literature 

The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics, Music

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Punk Websites and Blogs

Below is a list of punk-related websites and blogs, focusing on research, music and culture...

Intellect Books

Personal Punk

Please Kill Me

Post-Punk

Punk Rocker

Punk-Rocker

Interpunk

Punk Globe

Punk News

Punk Rock Academia

Punk Scholars  Network

The Punk Site

Visual Vitriol

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Punk Books from around the World!

Below is a huge list of punk books from around the world...I’m sure this list isn’t complete, but it’s certainly a good place to start! 

12 Days on the Road

100 Nights at The Roxy

1988-89: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion

A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982

A Field Guide to Post-Punk and New Wave

A Field Guide to Punk

A Riot Of Our Own

A Wailing of a Town: An Oral History of Early San Pedro Punk and More 1977-1985

Adventures in Reality: The Complete Collection book

All Ages: Reflections On Straight Edge

American Hardcore: A Tribal History

Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored

Archie Meets Ramones #1

Armed with Anger: How UK Punk Survived the Nineties

Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge

Banned in D C: Photos and Anecdotes from the DC Punk Underground

Blunt

Boy on Fire - The Young Nick Cave

Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984

Cheetah Chrome: A Dead Boy's Tale: From the Front Lines of Punk Rock

Chelsea Horror Hotel

City Baby: Surviving in Leather, Bristles, Studs, Punk Rock, and G.B.H

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

Dance Of Days- Two Decades Of Punk In The Nation’s Capital

Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital

Dancing with Myself

Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus

Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film

Dissonant Identities: The Rock 'n' Roll Scene in Austin, Texas

Do You Have a Band? : Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City

England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond

Face It: A Memoir

From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World

Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement

Fucked Up Reader

Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

Gimme Something Better

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

God Save Sex Pistols

Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1992

Hardcore California: A History of Punk and New Wave

Here's the Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks

Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones

Home is where the Arty Is

I am the Voice Left From Drinking

I am the Voice Left From Rehab

I Need More

I Slept With Joey Ramone

I Swear I Was There: Sex Pistols, Manchester and the Gig That Changed the World

I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol

I, Doll: Life and Death with the New York Dolls

I, Shithead: A Life in Punk

I'm Not Holding Your Coat

In The Fascist Bathroom

In The Gutter

Independence Days: The Story of UK Independent Record Labels

Inner City Sound: Punk and Post-Punk in Australia, 1976-1985

Joe Strummer and the Legend of The Clash

Just Kids

L.A. Punk Rocker

Left of the Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons

Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs

Live at the Masque: Nightmare in Punk Alley

Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones

London Calling

Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol

Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader

Making a Scene: New York Hardcore in Photos, Lyrics, and Commentary REVISITED

Malcolm McLaren: The Sex Pistols, the Anarchy, the Art, the Genius-The Whole Amazing Legacy

Marky Ramone: Punk Rock Blitzkrieg

Modern Machines: Punk Interviews From The Void

My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor

My World: Ramblings of an Aging Gutter Punk

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

New York Dolls: Photographs by Bob Gruen

No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984

No More Heroes: A Complete History of UK Punk from 1976 to 1980

Not Another Punk Book

Not Just Bits of Paper

NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990

Oh So Pretty: Punk in Print 1976-1980

On The Road With The Ramones

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991

Passion for Punk

Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982

Pretty Vacant: A Punk History

Product 45 Australian Punk / Post-Punk Record Covers

Punk a Photographic Journey: 2004-2007

Punk an A-Z

Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982

Punk Diary, 1970-1979: The Ultimate Complete Day-By-Day Reference Guide to Punk

Punk Girls

Punk is Dead: Punk is Everything!

Punk: Loud, Young and Snotty

Punk Press: Rebel Rock in the Underground Press 1968-1980

Punk Revolution NYC: The Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls And The CBGBs Set

Punk Rock

Punk Rocker

Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone

Punk Rock Warlord: the Life and Work of Joe Strummer

Punk Rock: An Oral History

Punk Rock: So What?

Punk Shirts: A Personal Collection

Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout! Records

Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock, in Their Own Words

Punk: An Aesthetic

Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution

Punk: The Whole Story

Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music

Ramones

Ramones: An American Band

Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail: Can a Punk Rock Legend Find What Monty Python Couldn't?

Raw Power: Iggy & The Stooges

Redemption Song: The Ballad Of Joe Strummer

Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith

Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot

Rip It Up And Start Again

Ripped and Torn: 1976 - 79 The Loudest Punk Fanzine in the UK

Ripped, torn and cut - Pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976

Rotten: No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish

See A Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody

Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols: 90 Days at EMI

Sex Pistols: Chaos!

Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine

Sex Pistols: The End is Near 25.12.77

Sex Pistols: The Graphic Novel

Sex Pistols: The Inside Story

Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk

Shiboleth

Shockwave

Sid and Nancy: Love Kills

Sniffin' Glue The Bible

Sniffin' Glue: The Essential Punk Accessory

Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace 

Song By Song

Spirit of 76: London Punk Eyewitness

Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag

Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change

Stranded

Stranded in the Jungle

Subculture: The Meaning of Style

Tales From The Punkside

Tales of the Emergency Sandwich - Punk Rock Tour Diaries

The Ballroom -  A tell all Memoir

The Best of Punk Magazine

The Bible Of Punk Rock Poster Art

The Big Beat: the Roadrunner magazine Anthology

The Boy Looked At Johnny

The Clash

The Clash: Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon

The Clash: The Complete Guide to Their Music

The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho-Punk, 1980-1984

The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop

The Encyclopedia of Punk

The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk

The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era

The New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon

The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists

The Politics of Punk: Protest and Revolt from the Streets

The Punk

The Rest Is Propaganda

The Roxy, Our Story: The Club That Forged Punk in 100 Nights of Madness Mayhem and Misfortune

The Scene That Would Not Die: Twenty Years of Post-Millennial Punk In The UK         

The Sex Pistols - 1977: The Bollocks Diaries

The Sex Pistols Invade America: The Fateful U.S.

The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story

The Story Of Crass

The Truth of Revolution, Brother: An Exploration of the Philosophy of Punk

There and Black Again: The Autobiography of Don Letts

Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die: Punk And Post-Punk Graphic Design

Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83

Trapped In A Scene: UK Hardcore 1985- 1989

Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History Of Punk In Toronto And Beyond 1977-1981

Typical Girls The Story of The Slits 

Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk

Urban Australia and Post-Punk - Exploring Dogs in Space

Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation

We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America

We Can Be The New Wind

We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk

We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews

What Every Child Needs To Know About Punk Rock

Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985

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Punk Fanzine Archives from around the world.

A punk fanzine or ‘zine’ is a DIY publication related to the punk subculture and hardcore punk music genre. Often primitively or casually produced, a fanzine can feature punk literature, such as social commentary, poetry, news, gossip, music reviews and articles about punk rock bands or regional punk scenes.

Below is a list of punk fanzine websites and archives from around the world, as well as related publications, papers, articles and books.

Archive.org - Zines

Bacteria Netherlands - 70s and 80s Dutch zine archive and International Zine Archive

Bored Teenagers - A collection of UK punk fanzines (covers) from the late 1970

Brob Tilt's zine-world -  (fan)zines that are interesting, historical, meaningful, influential, funny, intelligent, surprising, peculiar and inspiring

Circulation Zero -  West Coast Punk Music Zines from the 1970-80s: Damage, Slash & No Mag.

Contextual Dissemination - Punk fanzine archive, 1977 onwards - The sole purpose of this website is to make underground, out-of-print, punk zines accessible to anyone doing research. 

Digital Fanzine Preservation Society (DFPS). A collection of hardcore and punk music fanzines remastered and collected on the DFPS blogspot by Nagus from 2009-2011.

Essential Ephemera - UK Punk Literature & Images 1976-1984

Florida Punk, Indie, and Hardcore Archive -  Florida Punk Flyers, Posters, Fanzines, and Photographs sponsored by Visual Vitriol.

Gary Storm Songs -  Punk and New Music Fanzines – Late 1970s to Early 1980s

Grrrlzine Network -  Here you can find rebellious feminist zines: grrrl and lady zines, riot grrrl zines, transgender zines, zines by grrrls of color, lesbian/queer zines and many others!

HeartattaCk -  An internationally distributed punk zine with a strong bent towards hardcore punk and anti-consumerism. It was published by Kent McClard and Lisa Oglesby from March 1994 through June 2006. In the final years of its publication it remained one of the most popular zines available. 

International Institute of Social History -  The world's leading institute in socio-economic history

Punk in the East -  Punk in the East is a digital collection of original punk photographs, gig ticket, posters, clothing and ephemera from Norwich, Norfolk and across East Anglia. As content continues to come in it is fast becoming the largest digital UK punk archive to be found anywhere on the internet.

Punk Journey: The History of the Melbourne Punk Scene (Australia) - punk fanzines from 1977 - 1987.

Punk Planet Archive -  Punk Planet was a punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, that focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply another genre of music to which teenagers listen.

Punk Rocker Fanzines - Sites for Sore Eyes

Rockmine : The Fanzine Archive -  A Fanzine & Fan Club Magazine Archive.

Stitches in my Head Blog

Swedish Punk Fanzines - A site about collecting punk, hardcore and black metal records and Swedish punk zines.

Talkin’ Bout Fanzines - Fanzines from the Southend Area of the UK

UK Zine Library -  100s of(mostly)UK Zines from late 70s to early 90s, scanned and downloadable archive.

Weed - UK punk / post-punk fanzines 1980-1986.

Zineopolis - Art Zine Collection

Definition of a fanzine

Punk zine - Wikipedia

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Zine

Related Publications/Archives: 

Like Punk Never Happened - Brian McCloskey's Smash Hits archive from 1978, through to July 1985.

Monash University Library recently acquired a small collection of important punk zines, fanzines, and magazines to add to the Rare Books Collection. 

Punk Globe - not a fanzine but a long running magazine that offers a free DIY website for people to get the latest news, reviews, articles, interviews plus much more.

Punk Magazine - Punk was a music magazine and fanzine created by cartoonist John Holmstrom, publisher Ged Dunn, and "resident punk" Legs McNeil in 1975. Its use of the term "punk rock", coined by writers for Creem magazine a few years earlier to describe the simplistic and crude style of 60's Garage rock bands, further popularized the term.

Roadrunner -  Roadrunner was a rock magazine published in Adelaide between 1978-83. Its founding editors were Stuart Coupe and Donald Robertson, who worked together on the single-issue Punk zine Street Fever in December 1977. Though primarily focused on Australian and overseas rock music, it also covered areas of the burgeoning counterculture and issues such as punk. The final edition of December 1982 / January 1983 was published in Sydney. To accompany the release of this collection in May 2017, publisher Donald Robertson penned a history of the magazine. It is available here: The History of Roadrunner.

State Library of Victoria - The State Library of Victoria has the largest public collection of zines – independent, not-for-profit, and often hand-made publications – in Australia. 

Related Books:

Adventures in Reality: The Complete Collection book -  Put together by Alan Rider, Adventures in Reality, was a fanzine from Coventry in the early 1980s.

Mass Movement: The Digital Years, Volume 1 and 2 - A compilation of the best interviews and features from the second half of Mass Movement’s digital period.

Punk Faction BHP '91 to '95 -  A collection of BHP fanzines that cover a range of subjects that were important to the youth of the 1990s and are still relevant to the alternative scene of today. 

Ripped and Torn: 1976 - 79 The Loudest Punk Fanzine in the UK -  Ripped and Torn was one of the first punk fanzines, and continued long after others like Sniffing Glue had stopped.

Ripped, torn and cut - Pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976 - A book that offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976. 

Search & Destroy #1-6: The Complete Reprint -  Search & Destroy, a zine self-published from 1977-1979 by V. Vale, was a thorough anthropological survey of an emerging social-change movement: the San Francisco punk scene.

Sniffin' Glue The Bible -  An edited compendium of the first 10 issues of Mark Perry’s seminal Punkzine  Sniffin’ Glue.    

Sniffin' Glue: The Essential Punk Accessory - It was the most influential rock magazine of its time. It was called Sniffin' Glue and it's about to be recreated as a book

The Best of Punk Magazine -  A book that includes high-quality reprints of hard-to-find original issues, as well as rare and unseen photos,essays, interviews, and even handwritten contributions from the likes of AndyWarhol, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Lester Bangs,Legs McNeil, Lenny Kaye, and many more.

Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83 - Touch and Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979.

We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews -  The first compilation of the riveting and provocative interviews of Punk Planet magazine, founded in 1994 and charging unbowed into the new millennium.

Related PDFs:

A Destabilising Pleasure: Representations of Alternative Music in Irish Fanzines

Art-Zines, The Self-Publishing Revolution: The Zineopolis Art-Zine Collection

Bay Area Dadazines and Punk Zines in 1970s San Francisco: Interactive, Ephemeral, Live

Before Blogs There Were Zines: Berman, Danky, and the Political Case for Zine Collecting in North American Academic Libraries

CATALOGING AND DESCRIPTION OF FANZINE AND ZINE COLLECTIONS IN AMERICAN ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES

Doing it ourselves: Countercultural and alternative radical publishing in the decade before punk (2018)

Flood the market with alternative writing! – Fanzinesrepositories in Europe

FROM PROTEST TO RESISTANCE: British anarcho -punk 'zines (1980-1984) as sites of resistance and symbols of defiance

Global Network Zines - The Public Face of Mail Art

Hands-on Communication: Zine Circulation Rituals and the Interactive Limitations of Web Self-Publishing

In the Ruins of Zine Pedagogy: A Narrative Study of Teaching with Zines

London Punk Fanzines 1976-1984: The Celebration of the Every Person 

"Minor Threats" (Radical History Review)

Music fanzine collecting as capital accumulation

Punk, Politics and British (fan)zines, 1974­-84:'While the world was dying, did you wonder why?

Punk ‘zines – ‘symbols of defiance’ from the print to the digital age

Punk’s Not Dead: Resurrecting Punk Fanzines at Michigan State University Libraries

Print is Dead: The Promise and Peril of Digital Media for Subcultural Resistance

Riot Girl from Zine to Screen and the Commodification of Female Transgression

The D.C. Punk & Indie Fanzine collection

The Octapod Zine Collection: Developing a preservation and access strategy

Value and Validity of Art Zines as an Art Form

Zines Will Survive

Related Articles:

City Fun

Damage, Slash & No Mag - Download 50+ Issues of Legendary West Coast Punk Music Zines from the 1970-80s: Damage, Slash & No Mag

Fanzines - Clinton Walker (Australia)

Fanzine culture

Fanzines: the purest explosion of British punk

Self-made: zines & artist books (Exhibition)

Sniffin’ Glue: A fanzine that epitomized punk

Sniffin’ Glue: The Definitive Punk Zine

Tracing the beginnings of the punk fanzine

Up Yours: Anarchist Fanzines 

Related Video:

Guttersnipe Punk Fanzine Telford

PUNK ZINES : UK 1978 - 1984

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Punk Exhibitions from Around the World!

There have been a number of major retrospective exhibitions in the USA, the UK, Australia and some European countries over the past few years that have featured a selection of punk artefacts from private archives, including photographs, video footage, posters, flyers and clothing. These exhibitions, often held at high profile galleries and museums, confirm that ‘historical punk’ maintains its place of relevance in the contemporary world, 

Below are some of these exhibitions:

USA:

A Punk Rock Primer: L.A. 1982-1992 - Incredibly intuitive snapshots of Minor Threat, Henry Rollins & Black Flag, T.S.O.L., The Damned, Christian Death, GBH, Kommunity FK, Social Distortion, Alice Bag, and some of the first ever shows by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Alternative Voices - 1980s Punk San Francisco: Photographs by Jeanne Hansen.

From Bop Apocalypse to Blitzkrieg Bop 

Punkfest Cornell: Anarchy in the Archives -  A week-long celebration of punk music and history in Ithaca, N.Y.!

Punk Lust: Raw Provocation 1971 - 1985 -  The Museum of Sex presents this exhibition as a survey, looking at the way Punk culture used the language of sexuality–both visually and lyrically–to transgress and defy.  

The Punk Photography of Linda Aronow - Still photos taken by Linda Aronow that managed to capture the most iconic bands of the day over multiple gigs spanning over a decade.

Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986 (New York) and Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986 (Michigan) -  An exhibition that explores the unique visual language of the punk movement from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s through hundreds of its most memorable graphics–flyers, posters, albums, promotions, and zines.

Welcome to 1984//2020: Punk on the Western Front - An exhibition that  keeps the spirit of rebellion alive by “presenting the timeless generational phenomenon of punk culture through its visual art style, moments in its musical history, disorderly fashion and anti-conformist ideologies.  

X: 40 Years of Punk in Los Angeles -  An exhibition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Los Angeles punk rock band X. 

Visual Vitriol - Eugene, Houston, New Mexico

Visual Vitriol; The Art Of Punk

UK:

Doing metal, being punk, doing punk, being metal - A collaboration between the Punk Scholars Network and the International Society for Metal Music Studies to explore  the hybridity, crossover and difference in punk and metal subcultures - as part of the Punk Scholars Network 5th Annual Conference and Postgraduate Symposium and first Metal Punk Conference.

Punk - An exhibition of vintage press prints that document the rise of punk culture in 1970s Britain.

Punk.London - An exhibition by the Museum of London celebrating 40 years of punk in London, including oral stories from 19 individuals who had all been there to witness the birth of punk. The exhibition also included: Collecting Punks -  current and former punks offer a 'Show and Tell' of objects, photographs and stories from their punk days and  Filming Punks -  two new documentary films, Punks parts one and two, which feature interviews with former punks.

Punk Rock!! So What? - An exhibition featuring a range of punk graphic and visual material spanning the past forty years, demonstrating connections, stylistic conventions, patterns of engagement and the evolution of punk’s visual language and identity across diverse regions and cultures. 

Europe:

Punk Graphics - An exhibition at the ADAM Design Museum of Brussels.

PUNK. Its Traces in Contemporary Art -  An exhibition that traces a journey through the influence of punk in contemporary art and echoes the importance of its presence as an attitude and as a referent for many creators.  

Australia:

High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion -  High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion looked at the ideas and community coalescing within contemporary fashion practice today through the lens of the Fashion Design Council (FDC).

Know your Product -  An exhibition, which focused on the complicated overlaps between music, art and other cultural practices, was an early attempt to make sense of what had been going on in Brisbane ‘youth culture’ in the late 70s and early 80s.

Melbourne><Brisbane: punk, art and after -  An explosive interaction between art and punk music in the mid-1970s, which drove a charged decade of creative activity between Melbourne and Brisbane.

Nick Cave The Exhibition -  In 2007, iconic Australian musician, songwriter and author Nick Cave became the subject of his own exhibition: Nick Cave: The Exhibition, created by Nick and The Arts Centre Melbourne.

On Air - 40 Years of 3RRR -  Celebrating 40 years of Melbourne independent radio in the first-ever exhibition showcasing Triple R, Australia’s largest and most successful community station.

Paper Tigers -  An exhibition of the 1970s celebrating Sydney’s dynamic poster art and public protest movements, from the late 1960s through the ’70s to the early ’80s.

Punk Journey: St Kilda + Beyond -  An exhibition with a strong focus on St Kilda as the historical epicentre of the vibrant Melbourne Punk scene from 1977-1987.

St Kilda's Alright - The Fred Negro Experience -  A retrospective and contemporary exhibition consisting of a visually rich pastiche of paintings, drawings, memorabilia, photos, history, film and music – celebrating the history and contribution of one of St Kilda’s most iconic artists and residents (Fred Negro).

Related Sites:

Punk exhibition at the Museum of London 

Punk into Post Punk 

Related Articles:

Linda Aronow

Punk never dies: celebrating the revolutionary art of an era

San Francisco’s Punk Pioneers 

Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics 1976-1986

Related PDFs:

'Is There Anyone Out There?' Documenting Birmingham's Alternative Music Scene 1986-1990

Punk in the Provinces

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Punk Museums and Archives from around the world!

Punk is a subculture with a long history and like all subcultures there is a need to preserve artefacts like posters, flyers, photos, fanzines and music so that future generations of punks and non-punks alike can appreciate the vibrant and visual subculture that is punk. 

While some individuals and organisations will have private collections of their own that they lend out from time to time for exhibitions and the like, there are a limited number of actual punk museums and archives around the world that are dedicated to documenting and preserving punk in either a physical or online space.

Punk Museums:

CBGB (website)  -  Founded on the Bowery in New York City by Hilly Kristal in 1973; CBGB was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk and new wave bands like the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Misfits, Television, Patti Smith Group, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Cramps, and Joan Jett.

L.A. Punk Museum - The Punk Museum is a grouping of like-minded artists brought together by Tequila Mockingbird, To Recreate the Art, Sound, and Feeling of the 80s punk community. Sister museums include New York Punk Museum and San Francisco Punk Rock Museum.

The Icelandic PUNK Museum -  The Icelandic Punk Museum in downtown Reykjavik is located in a former underground public toilet. It was started by John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols) and opened in 2016. The museum chronicles the rise of Icelandic punk music in the 1980s through photography, video clips and listening stations.

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Icelandic Punk

Punk Archives

Below is a list of official public punk archives from around the world, which could not exist without the generosity of many individuals who have lent and donated items from their own private collections.

Cuban Punk - an online archive that sheds light on a subculture that offers an underground perspective of Cuban social history.

D.C. Punk Archive -  In support of the mission to collect, preserve and  provide access to primary source materials that documents the history and  culture of local  Washington,   D.C. punk.

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Audio).

Punk 77 -  A history of UK Punk Rock from 1976-79: Featuring an A-Z of punk bands from Adam and The Ants to The Sex Pistols to X Ray Spex, fanzines, features, women in punk, rare record sleeves, audio clips, fashion, punk rock lyrics, interviews and loads of pictures

Punk in the East  -  A digital collection of original punk  photographs, gig ticket, posters, clothing and ephemera from Norwich,  Norfolk and across East Anglia. As content continues to come in it is  fast becoming the largest digital UK punk archive to be found anywhere  on the internet.    

Punk Journey: The History of the Melbourne Punk Scene - a multimedia website consisting of archival material from the Melbourne (Australia) punk, post-punk and hardcore punk scenes between the years 1977-1987.

Punk Music and Culture in the UCLA Library -  UCLA Library Special Collections created its Punk Archive to document  punk music and lifestyle as it has developed and been expressed in Los  Angeles both within and outside of the traditional LA/Hollywood punk  narrative.

Southend Punk Rock History 1976 - 1986 - A detailed site containing information on the Punk Rock explosion as experienced by Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK. The site contains detailed band bios, a local punk rock history timeline, fanzines and the punks themselves.

Related Articles:

Punk at the Library

Punk Archive Saved

Related PDFs:

The Long Island Punk Music Archives (LIPMA) Project

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David Ensminger and Visual Vitriol

David Ensminger is a writer, musician and punk historian based in Houston, Texas. His work includes writing for Maximum Rock n Roll, Houston Press, Thirsty Ear, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. He has also written a number of books about punk music including:

Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation - a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, which reveals punk concert flyers as urban folk art.

Left of the Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons -  Featuring interviews with leading figures of the punk underground, including Ian MacKaye, from Minor Threat and Fugazi; Jello Biafra, from Dead Kennedys; and Dave Dictor, from MDC, this book probes the legacy of punk's sometimes fuzzy political ideology, its homegrown traditions, and its rupturing of social norms.

The Politics of Punk: Protest and Revolt from the Streets -  David Ensminger probes the conscience of punk by going beyond the lyrics and slogans of the pithy culture war. He paints a broad, nuanced, and well-documented picture of the ongoing activism and outreach inherent in punk.

Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock, in Their Own Words -  In this exhaustive anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft overlooked community of badass women who shaped the punk scene.  

Modern Machines: Punk Interviews From The Void -  Featuring conversations with noted countercultural underground music icons by author, photographer, and drummer David A. Ensminger.     

See more about David Ensminger and his projects at his blog: Visual Vitriol

https://www.economist.com/prospero/2011/10/12/the-q-and-a-david-ensminger-punk-historian

Visual Vitriol; The Art Of Punk (Video)

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Australian punk and post-punk films and videos

Australian punk has been a much-explored niche over the past decade, with several feature films, videos and documentaries being made on this vibrant subculture..

Below is a list of films and videos made about the Australian punk and post-punk scene from the late 1970s onward...

Age of Rage: The Australian Punk Revolution  -  Through music, photos, archival footage and commentary, this film examines how Australian punk ideology, music, social issues, community, violence, drugs, and a ferociously independent DIY ethos transformed Australian lives.

Alternative Animals CD ROM - An Interactive Documentary of the Australian Punk Scene 1976 - 1979

Australia's New Tribes #1 and #2 - A video about Australian subcultures  in the mid 1980s

Big Risk - A short film shot in Melbourne in 1978 featuring Negatives, News, Boys Next Door

City Fringe - A documentary about Australian subcultures in 2009,  featuring interviews and a punk gig recorded at the Arthouse Hotel

Distorted: Reflections on early Sydney punk - A video about the early Sydney punk scene

Dogs in Space - A 1986 Australian film set in Melbourne's ‘Little Band’ post-punk music scene in 1978. It starred Michael Hutchence as Sam, the drug-addled frontman of the fictitious band from which the film takes its name.

Melbourne Punk Pub Crawl (1995/96) - Inspired slightly by 1970s UK punk filmmaker, Don Letts, filmmaker Dick Dale took along his Super 8 film camera to the Annual Melbourne punk pub crawl - an annual event that has been held on grand final day every year since 1983

Post-Punk Mix Tapes #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - A selection of short films and video clips from the Melbourne punk and post-punk scene, as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival

Punkline - A short avant film about the Crystal Ballroom, St Kilda in 1980

Rock in a Hard Place - A documentary about 30 odd years of underground, original music in Adelaide, South Australia

Tribes of Melbourne -  Tribes of Melbourne is a 1980's documentary on the Melbourne punk scene

Why Do People Hate Us? -  A film about Smeer- an ageing punk musician and tattooist who was in Melbourne hardcore band Depression in the 1980s

For more Melbourne (Australia) punk-related videos and film clips go to https://vimeo.com/showcase/6782152

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No Wave Cinema and the Cinema of Transgression.

No wave cinema was an underground filmmaking movement that flourished on the Lower East Side of New York City from about 1976 to 1985. Sponsored by and associated with the artists group Collaborative Projects or ‘Collab’, no wave cinema was a stripped-down style of guerrilla filmmaking that emphasized mood and texture above other concerns – similar to the parallel no wave music movement.

This brief movement, also known as New Cinema (after a short-lived screening room on St. Mark’s Place run by several filmmakers on the scene), had a significant impact on underground film.

No wave cinema spawned the Cinema of Transgression - a term coined by Nick Zedd in 1985 to describe a New York City-based underground film movement, consisting of a loose-knit group of like-minded artists using shock value and humor in their work.

Key players in this movement were Zedd, Kembra Pfahler, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Casandra Stark, Scott B and Beth B, Tommy Turner, Richard Kern, and Lydia Lunch, who in the late 1970s and mid-1980s began to make very low-budget films using cheap 8 mm cameras.

Zedd outlined his philosophy on the Cinema of Transgression in The Cinema of Transgression Manifesto, published under the name Orion Jeriko in the zine The Underground Film Bulletin (1984–90).

In 2010, French filmmaker Céline Danhier created a documentary film titled Blank City. The film presents an oral history of the no wave cinema and Cinema of Transgression movements through interviews with Jarmusch, Kern, Buscemi, Poe, Seidelman, Ahearn, Zedd, John Waters, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, hip-hop legend Fab 5 Freddy, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and Jack Sargeant. The soundtrack includes music by Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, James Chance and the Contortions, Bush Tetras and Sonic Youth.

Watch:

Films by the Cinema of Transgression 

Blank City (2010) 

Kidnapped No Wave Cinema 1978 

The Art of Sonic Youth: The New Wave Out of No Wave Documentary

No Wave Now: Lydia Lunch on the cultural history of No Wave 

The Blank Generation (1976)  

Cinema of Transgression and No Wave Cinema 

Websites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Wave_Cinema

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Transgression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Your_Idols_(film)

https://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/1985-the-cinema-of-transgression-manifesto-is-published/

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A new documentary is to to be made about 'Glamour Girl' Anya Phillips - a designer who brought beauty to New York's 1970s punk scene and tragically died from cancer in 1981 at age 26. Read more below...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/glamour-girl-anya-phillips-brought-beauty-new-york-s-1970s-n695466

https://www.facebook.com/Homage-to-Anya-Phillips-206028506122192/

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Punk Journey: The History of the Melbourne punk scene is a multimedia website consisting of archival material from the Melbourne punk, post-punk and hardcore punk scenes between the years 1977-1987.

The website, which is essentially an online museum, consists of material that is often rare in nature and includes written documentation, interviews, photos, flyers, video footage and MP3 tracks.

To date Punk Journey is the most comprehensive research project to focus exclusively on the history of the Melbourne punk scene from 1977 onwards.

Pages include: Bands, Art, Fanzines, Theatre, Media, Record Labels, Punkettes and Venues among others... as well as lots of links to books, articles, music, films and other Australian punk projects.

Punk Journey is a work in progress and has been created with love by Melynda von Wayward. It is a major historical and cultural document and well worth exploring.

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Punk & Post-Punk (Journal) 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.

https://www.intellectbooks.com/punk-post-punk

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From its rather humble beginnings, the Punk Scholars Network has transformed into an international forum for academic and scholarly debate, conferences, publications, talks and public exhibitions. 

From the 12th – 19th December 2020, the Punk Scholars Network will be holding their 7th annual conference and postgraduate symposium - a virtual, online, global conference spanning eight days.

Punk is a truly global phenomenon that manifests in myriad ways in different scenes, political regimes, cultural contexts and individual experiences. Punk is many things to many people and seldom remains static over a lifetime. Increased globalisation, changes in connectivity and technology, and shifts in both capitalism and populism have impacted punk for better and worse. International and intranational punk scenes and connections are growing and finding commonality and conflict through music, education, mutual aid, performance, political activism and human behaviours. The global Coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the differences people face accessing resources and how governments respond. How have, and how will, various local punk scenes respond to this crisis, and what does their response tell us about punk as a global phenomenon?

The current Punk Scholars Network Series Global Punk has attempted to capture the spread and variance of punk across the world (Bestley, Dines, Gordon & Guerra 2019, 2020; Bestley, Dines, Gordon, Grimes & Guerra 2021). Gabriel Kuhn’s (2019) work on Straight Edge punk experiences has been based upon interviews with straight edge punks around the world, exploring different aspects of their experiences, attitudes, and activism. The journal Punk & Post-Punk regularly features contributions from punk scholars in a variety of geographical locations and settings. With these efforts, and others, serving as a base we are seeking to hold an entirely virtual conference that explores, examines and critically engages with punk scholars around the globe. Each PSN region will be responsible for one day over an eight-day period and will include some academic papers or panels responding to this call for papers.

Taking global punk seriously as a theme means considering the variety of experiences within local, national and international punk communities. This conference takes place against the backdrop of increased political authoritarianism and a noticeable rise in racial and religious intolerance across the world more generally, and under the guise of responses to the global pandemic more specifically. We must consider what impact these issues have – good and bad – on punk scenes and individuals. To do this together, we are asking to what extent is punk a helpful means or a hindrance in considering identity and ‘being’ within wider social problems, dynamics, and understandings?

In line with the broad view being taken on the theme of global punk and in keeping with the PSN’s wide ranging academic reach, we are seeking contributions from a range of interdisciplinary areas, including, but not limited to: cultural studies, musicology, ethnography, art and design, humanities, performing arts, and the social sciences. Papers and panels could cover the following themes, (list is by no means exhaustive):

Globalisation of new media, communications, social networking, internet

Ethnographic considerations of scene/space and borders

Political appropriation: re-definitions of ‘anarchism’, ‘ecology’ and anti-authoritarianism

What role does exogenous and endogenous appropriation have in punk politics, resistance and allegiance around the world?

In what ways does gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, disability, class, religious beliefs, and cultural norms shape punk around the world?

Notion of local/national/international ‘scene’, tribes, counterculture/subculture

Importation and exportation of punk as a commodity, statement, academic discourse

Music and the performer: creativity, authorship, identity, problems with definition, crossing musical boundaries.

Reception: DIY culture, activism.

Lifestyle: crustpunk, squatter, vegetarianism, animal rights, straight edge etc within different cultural contexts.

The art of punk: record covers and associated graphic styles.

https://www.punkscholarsnetwork.com/blog/punk-scholars-annual-conference-2020

PROSTITUTION at the ICA: A Punk Art Exhibition?

Also check out the KISMIF Conference - an international academic/cultural/artistic event based in the city of Porto (Portugal) and focused on discussing and sharing information about underground cultures, DIY practices, urban arts and other related topics - https://www.kismifconference.com/about/

(2019) KISMIF An Approach to Underground Music Scenes Vol.4

(2016) DIY CULTURES, SPACES AND PLACES. 17-22 July 2016

(2016) Keep it Simple, Make it Fast! Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes

(2015) KISMIF curated.pdf

(2014) KISMIF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Underground Music Scenes and DIY Cultures