Day 2 (Tues, May 10): Punk Roots & Aesthetics

For Today:

• Overview: Punk Roots & Aesthetics – Please read this before you watch the film and do the readings.
• Read: Teal Triggs, “Scissors and Glue: Punk Fanzines and the Creation of a DIY Aesthetic,” Journal of Design History, Vol. 19, No. 1 (2006): 69-74.
• Read: Stephen Duncombe, “Introduction” to The Cultural Resistance Reader (New York: Verso, 2002), 1-8.
• Notes: Duncombe on cultural resistance.
• Watch: PUNK: Attitude – check out the first hour of the film, through 57:40. 
• Due tomorrow, by noon: Post in Discussion #2 – Punk Roots & Aesthetics.

For Further Reading & Research:

• John Robb, Punk Rock: An Oral History (PM Press, 2012).
• Clinton Heylin, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock (Chicago Review Press, 2005).
• David A. Ensminger, Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation (University Press of Mississippi, 2011).
• Pete Dale, Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground (Taylor & Francis, 2012).
• Stewart Dean Ebersole and Jared Castaldi, Barred for Life: How Black Flag’s Iconic Logo Became Punk Rock’s Secret Handshake (PM Press, 2013).
• Judy Berman, “How Iggy and the Stooges Invented Punk,” Pitchfork, 4 Oct 2016.
• Amanda Petrusich, “Where Punk Rock Begins,” The New Yorker, 15 Sept 2016.
• Mallika Rao, “‘A Band Called Death’: The Punk Before Punk Band Gets Their Due,” Huffington Post, 28 June 2013.
• Stephen Blush, “New York Rock: The Birth of Punk, an Oral History,” Cuepoint/Medium, 11 Oct 2016.
• Proto-punk: 10 records that paved the way for ’76 – The Vinyl Factory