Punk Scholars Podcast

"...The singles titles say it all. “Orgasm Addict” promises fiction, romance. “Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn'tve?)” And of course, “What Do I Get?” so perfectly expressing the primal cry of youth? There was also a celebration of androgyny within punk, which further amplified glam rock’s earlier bisexual and sexually ambivalent posturing. As a tomboy and non-traditional girl, I knew I'd found my countercultural home here. What I love most about punk was its absence of definitions. I aspired to become a freer, wilder, stronger person, and it felt amazing to be part of something that actually encouraged you to become more of those things..."This is Caroline Collett revisiting her latest work, What Do I Get? My Teenage Punk Rock Diary, as excerpted from "Caroline Collett, Part 2" in conversation with co-hosts Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins.For Caroline’s bio and more info, please check out PART 1.-We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 2, Episode 11, was recorded on April 3, 2026, on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode and edited the transcript, which is available here. Jessica Schwartz also edited the audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you hear the dice rolling, the cards shuffling, and the slot machines chiming their contrapuntal cacophony? No? Well, we don’t either. That’s because, although we are back in and coming live to you from Las Vegas, Nevada on this episode, we’re hearing the din of punk scholarship amplified by sound examples–be it hardcore, pop-punk, or grindcore–that are contoured by theoretical frameworks. We met in this electrified desert to discuss, debate, and develop new ways of understanding issues pertinent to our Punk Scholars Network US 4th Annual Conference theme: “For The Record: Punk Histories and Archival Practices,” which are especially significant as punk, increasingly institutionalized, celebrates its 50th anniversary of being a means of collective empowerment and collaboration between people, spaces, places, and things. And, we heard the resonant buzz of this (over)driven subcultural community as we gathered in the Punk Rock Museum with speakers dispensing distortion as tour guides and conference-goers walked their ways around co-constitutive beginnings: where lived experiences meet objects anew in the moments we have been fortunate to share. And bringing this all together–reflections on temporality, perspective, resonance and sending forth, collaboration and contemplation, and the recognition of one’s impact in shaping the world of punk (and beyond) by promoting one’s once ‘secondary’ scene as a musician, a recorder label co-founder, a writer (zines, books), and current archival collaborator– is our esteemed guest: Larry Livermore. This episode began after Larry’s presentation with Stefano Morello on “Co-archiving East Bay Punk” allowing co-hosts Jessica Schwartz and Ellen Bernhard to take turns asking Larry questions that extended this discussion, exploring labels as archives, memoir as historical intervention, and what it means to be and self-reflect on being part of the record rather than just in it. And, for the record, this episode also probes those things, moments, and intensities that cannot, perhaps, be archived but are just as important.Guest Bio.Larry Livermore is a writer, editor, musician, and co-founder of Lookout Records, the Bay Area label that documented the East Bay punk scene and put out records for artists such as Operation Ivy, Green Day, Spitboy, and more. He edited the zine Lookout, launched in 1984 from a solar-powered cabin in Mendocino County and, by 1995, distributed internationally. He was an early organizer and volunteer at 924 Gilman, where he played dozens of shows with the Lookouts and the Potatomen. He also wrote columns for Maximumrocknroll (1987-94) and Punk Planet (1994-2007), and contributed to underground publications ranging from Homocore to the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Livermore is the author of Spy Rock Memories (2013) and How to Ru(i)n a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records (2015).Linkshttps://www.punkscholarsnetwork.com/psn-usa-conference-2026https://larrylivermore.com/-We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 2, Episode 10, was recorded on March 7, 2026, with co-hosts Ellen Bernhard and Jessica Schwartz coming to you live from the Punk Scholars Network US 4th Annual Conference at the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, NV, and our guest, Larry Livermore, joining on Zoom from Singapore. Schwartz and Bernhard co-produced with help from Stefano Morello and John Goshert. Jessica Schwartz also edited the audio and made the transcript, which can be found HERE, available  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who is remembered in Singaporean punk history, who has been erased in the commemorative process, and how? On this episode, co-hosts Jessica Schwartz and Russ Bestley speak with Ginette Chittick about her research efforts and digital archive practices that amplify "the voices that are rarely consulted in the already sparse research on Singaporean punk history." Ginette walks us through the significance of punk's emergence in a particular historical context, when soft authoritarianism and disciplinarity made Singaporeans subject to "common sense" etiquette and controls on political dissent, such that a band naming themselves "Opposition Party" was a meaningful act of defiance. Ginette shares how Singaporean punks had to navigate this system, where slam dancing was illegal and punks were required to raise $2,000 (in the 1990s!) just to put on a show. She also offers insight into how the uniqueness of this scene comes to life through the material culture she archives in her digital archive of Singaporean punk history, where studded leather jackets evince the layers of time, weather, and movements, from mosh-pit camaraderie to global flows of materials. Ginette also shared insights as a musician in a formative punk scene, playing in an all-female band--Psycho Sonique--in a male-dominated scene. And, we are excited to share a few of their songs with you all!Guest Bio. Ginette Chittick is an educator, subculture researcher, shoegaze musician, and a DJ. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, and her research focuses on Singaporean punk history and visual and material culture. As a key member of the early local punk and indie music scenes of the 1990s, Ginette Chittick co-founded Singapore’s first all-female punk band PsychoSonique, co-produced the city state’s earliest punk zine Outcast, and later riot grrrl zine CherrybombPress. She ran a DIY indie label, organised mini music festivals, and established the short-lived Lion City Riot Grrrl chapter in Singapore. With a background in fashion, she is the Programme Leader of the Diploma in Creative Direction for Fashion at the School of Fashion, LASALLE University of the Arts Singapore. This episode features the music: Psycho Sonique, "I Don't Give a Damn," "I'm Gonna Crash!" and "One Nighter." All rights reserved. LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://instagram.com/ginettechittickWebsite: ginettechittick.com Singaporeanpunkarchive.com -We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 2, Episode 9, was recorded on Friday, February 13, 2025, on Zoom with participants in Singapore, the UK, and the US. Russ Bestley and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode and edited the transcript, which is available here.Jessica Schwartz also edited the audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy 2026, punk scholars and other interested parties!Your Punk Scholars Podcast co-hosts, Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins, are back in action with a recursively engaging interview of Prof. Martin James. Let us let you in on a couple of fun facts about our guest...."Martin has been punched by Goldie, pissed on by Iggy Pop and kidnapped by an unknown DJ in Italy. He also once swam across crocodile-infested waters in Indonesia, got stoned senseless with Cypress Hill in Amsterdam, and played Resident Evil with Ice T in Hollywood. Furthermore, he’s travelled the world with The Prodigy, written two books about them, provided record label biogs for each of their last 5 albums, and supplied sleeve notes to their greatest hits collection, Their Law. As a journalist, his weirdest interview was when he brought Afrika Bambaataa together with the hip hop originator’s hero Gary Numan… they were both quite bemused." ...and...."Legendary DJ Annie Nightingale MBE once described Martin as: “… one of the most conscientious, outspoken and honest writers working in music today — and he’s not afraid to cry!” Guest Bio. Prof. Martin James is an independent scholar who was, until three years ago, Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at Solent University in Southampton, UK. His areas of specialist interest include music journalism and the UK & US music press, music cities and late-twentieth-century alternative music; specifically, punk, post-punk, synth pop and electronic music. Martin’s academic and trade publications have focused on hidden histories in the mediated narratives of popular music. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books about music, including State of Bass: Jungle – the story so far (Velocity Press, 1997, 2020) and French Connections: from discotheque to discovery (Velocity Press, 2004, 2022). He is co-editor of the forthcoming Intellect Handbook of Global Music Industries (Intellect), Media Narratives in Popular Music (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), and co-author of Understanding the Music Industries (Sage, 2012). Prior to becoming an academic in 2004, Martin worked in the UK national music press as a writer and editor. He was on the editorial staff of Melody Maker, Muzik, Vox and various others. Furthermore, he contributed to The Guardian, The Independent, and various lifestyle magazines. He continues to write for special music magazines and interview artists turned author at music literature events.This episode features the music: Nostalgia Deathstar "ZU (Night of the Claustrozombies)" featuring Prof Tara Brabazon and Prof Steve Redhead. 2025. All rights reserved. LinksEmail: [email protected]’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 2, Episode 8, was recorded on January 16, 2025, on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode and edited the transcript, which is available here.Jessica Schwartz also edited the audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here we go again…the second Punk Scholars Podcast live taping…this time, we’re LIVE AT LEEDS from the 12th Annual Punk Scholars Network Conference 2025 at the University of Leeds. In a roundtable format, punk scholars from your familiar PSP co-hosting crew– Jessica Schwartz, Paul Hollins, Mike Dines, and Russ Bestley–spotlight conference organizer, Stan Erraught, and speak on the importance of the PSP in the context of the annual PSN conference gathering.  Note: For context, given the occasional reference to Caroline, this taping was preceded by a six-minute clip of Caroline Collett's book reading from the previous episode of the Punk Scholars Podcast (PSP S2 E6). We encourage you to listen to that episode (and all others) as well. Guest Bio and Conference AbstractStan Erraught is a lecturer in Music Business and Popular Music in the School of Music at the University of Leeds. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from University College, Dublin. He has published a monograph on Music, Value, and Utopia: Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come (Rowman and Littlefield 2018) and his article, ‘The Country and Irish Problem’ was published in Popular Music in 2021. Rebel Notes: Popular Music and Conflict will be published in early 2025 by Beyond the Pale. He is currently writing a book on Popular Music, Modernity and Anxiety: Ireland 1950-1990.PUNK: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE.The Punk Scholars Network 12th Annual Conference and Postgraduate Symposium was hosted by the School of Music at the University of Leeds on the 12th & 13th December 2025. The theme of the conference was Punk: Past, Present, Future.As punk approaches its half century - if we take the year of the first Ramones album and the first Sex Pistols single as year zero - this year's Punk Scholars Network conference explored how a cultural form that rejoiced in the rejection of the past, and a joyful skepticism towards any kind of future, can deal with its own history, its fragility in the face of age, and the sustainability of the form itself as it passes from first person memory into history. Papers were presented on topics that examined the past in light of these concerns, as well as those that interrogated the present and inquired what 'punk' is now and the future of a form that remains resilient and innovative.Guest and Conference LinksStan Erraught | School of Music | University of LeedsStanley Erraught Discography: Vinyl, CDs, & More | DiscogsOn Music, Value and Utopia: Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come?Leeds Conference 2025 — Punk Scholars Network-We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 2, Episode 7, was recorded on December 11, 2025, on Zoom with roundtable participants in Leeds, UK, and in the US. Jessica Schwartz, Paul Hollins, Mike Dines, and Russ Bestley co-hosted and co-produced this episode. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz edited the transcript, which is available here.Jessica Schwartz edited the audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we have something quite different for you. We have the absolute pleasure of introducing you to Caroline Collet. Caroline would not describe herself as a ‘Punk Scholar’, though she did work with me and Martin James on the ‘Four Old Lags’ paper presented at the PSN conference in Buckingham a couple of years ago. Where do we start with the force of nature that is Caroline Collett? Listen to hear for yourselves…Guest Bio. Writer Caroline Collett was born in 1962 and grew up in Yorkshire, where she was a music-mad kid and teenage punk, before going on to win a scholarship to Oxford to study Modern Languages. After graduating, she became the main news writer for the newly-launched MTV Europe before becoming a presenter on both youth and film shows for Channel 4, ITV, BBC2 and SuperChannel and then a producer/director for a daily film show on BSB. In 1998, Caroline formed her own communications company, working as a creative copywriter and publicist for artists, architects and designers. Out of hours, she is a creative writer, with a special interest in memoir, music of the 70s and 80s and the interplay of art and gender.    Linkswww.carolinecollettwriter.comCarolineCollettWriter (@CollettWriter) / Posts / Xhttps://bsky.app/profile/collettwriter.bsky.socialhttps://www.instagram.com/caroline_r_collett/-Contact us: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 2, Episode 6 was recorded on November 13, 2025 on Zoom with participants in the UK. Paul Hollins hosted and produced this episode. Jessica Schwartz edited the audio. Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins edited the transcript, available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Where to begin with a guest such as Dr. Russ Bestley, who has done so much for the punk scholarly community, not to mention all the graphic design work, exhibits, publications--including his newest publication, Turning Revolt Into Style (2025), and network organizing...Where to begin...or really, where and how to end?! As you'll hear, in this episode, co-hosts Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz face this daunting task as they opt to take a deep dive into Russ' most recently published book while also inquiring about his formative punk years, education, and publications. And, even with a keen focus on Turning Revolt Into Style, we still manage to cover a range of issues, not least the reemergent questions concerning the Art School-Punk connection, punk politicization (via visual communication in addition to the music), and punk diasporic networks. We also experience a myth-busting moment when Russ shares his genealogical knowledge of Jaime Reid's famous "God Save the Queen" image. Check it out!Guest Bio. Dr Russ Bestley is Reader in Graphic Design & Subcultures at London College of Communication. His areas of specialist interest include graphic design, popular culture, alternative music scenes and subcultures, comedy and humour. He is editor of the academic journal Punk & Post-Punk, now in its fourteenth year, series editor and art director for the Global Punk book series published by Intellect Books, and a founding member of the Punk Scholars Network. His research archive can be accessed at www.hitsvilleuk.com. Russ has written several books, including Turning Revolt into Style: The Process and Practice of Punk Graphic Design (2025), Action Time Vision: Punk & Post Punk 7” Record Sleeves (2016), Visual Research (2004, 2011, 2015, 2022), Up Against the Wall (2002), and Experimental Layout (2001). His book The Art of Punk, was published by Omnibus Press (UK), Voyageur (North America), Hannibal Verlag Gmbh (Germany) and Hugo et Compagnie (France) in 2012. In 2013, he established the Graphic Subcultures research hub at the London College of Communication, before going on to form the UAL Subcultures Interest Group in 2022. He has designed and curated exhibitions in London, Southampton, Blackpool, Leeds, Oxford, Birmingham, and Newcastle, and designed books, posters, record covers, and other material for Active Distribution, the Hope Collective, PM Press, and many other DIY and independent labels, publishers, and producers. He recently designed a critically acclaimed autobiography by Pauline Murray, Life’s A Gamble, for Omnibus Press.LinksEmail: [email protected] UK-We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 2, Episode 5, was recorded on October 10, 2025, on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode and edited the transcript, which is available here.Jessica Schwartz also edited the audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Straight outta Jakarta, Indonesia, across all kinds of time zones, we at the Punk Scholars Podcast (PSP) are proud to bring you Indonesian "punk for life" and scholarship leader, organizer, and musician, Fakhran Ramadhan. Interviewed by the PSP co-host team, Jessica Schwartz and Mike Dines, Fahkran's interview bursts with knowledge and a love for his punk community and the political milieu that necessitated punk's uprising and resistance, bringing joy and friendship from collective struggle and the promise of difference and inclusion. As PSN Indonesia Chair, Fakhran continues to be an enthusiastic, tireless documentarian of his scene and music from his band, No Slide Next.Guest Bio. Muhammad Fakhran al Ramadhan, or Fakhran Ramadhan, is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Universitas Islam 45 Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia. He earned his M.Hum in Humanities from Universitas Indonesia and is currently preparing a research proposal on aging punk in Indonesia for his doctoral degree, which he plans to undertake in 2026. Fakhran is a punk scholar, musician, and Chair of the Punk Scholars Network Indonesia. His academic and creative work focuses on Indonesian popular culture, popular music, and youth subcultures—particularly punk—while exploring broader themes of identity, politics, resistance, alternative education, and grassroots cultural production. Through his leadership in the Punk Scholars Network Indonesia, he actively connects academia and activism by organizing conferences, cross-cultural collaborations, public talks, and community-based research.Fahkran's Playlist (as explained in the episode)No Slide Next – “Hymne Guru Indonesia”, from the album From First to Last, Vandal Destructor, 2025.Anthrax – The Devils You Know, from the album XL, 2022.MCPR – “We Are Punk, We Are Pride”, from the album Songs for Priders, Priders HQ Records, 2023.Romi and The Jahat – “Buah Hati”, from the album Rumah, Nilai Merah Records, 2018.Bad Religion – “Do What You Want”, from the album Suffer, Epitaph, 1988.No Use for a Name – “Biggest Lie”, from the album The Feel Good Record of the Year,  Fat Music, 2008. LinksFakhran Email = [email protected] Fakhran Instagram = @fakhranramadhan PSN Indonesia Instagram = @psn_indonesia15 No Slide Next Instagram = @noslidenext PSN Indonesia Email = [email protected] Linkedin-We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 2, Episode 4, was recorded on September 10, 2025, on Zoom with participants in the UK, the US, and Jakarta, Indonesia_. Mike Dines and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode and edited the transcript, which is available here.Jessica Schwartz also edited the audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From record collecting to radio, from art history to punk, pin-ups, and disciplinary-breaking work in the field of design, we bring you none other than Dr. Maria Elena Buszek. Interviewed by Punk Scholars Podcast (PSP) co-host team Jessica Schwartz and Russ Bustley, Dr. Buszek traces her love of and engagement with punk, as well as hip-hop, from a generative, albeit de-industrializing, Detroit, MI, to finding more punk community in Omaha, Nebraska. This episode helps trace the significance of a punk scholar's positional contributions to pushing disciplinary limits and grappling with the tensions between the "old guard" of and "new" critical approaches to disciplines, including the rethinking of canons and recontextualizing of work through feminist perspectives and Riot Grrrl logics. Guest Bio. Maria Elena Buszek, Ph.D. is a scholar, critic, curator, and Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado Denver, where she teaches courses on Modern and contemporary art and design. Her recent publications include the books Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture and Extra/ordinary: Craft and contemporary art; contributions to the anthologies Punkademics: The Basement Show in the Ivory Tower and Design History Beyond the Canon; catalogue essays for numerous international exhibitions; and articles and criticism in such journals as Art in America, Art Journal, Flash Art, and Punk & Post-Punk, where she also serves as an Associate Editor. With Hilary Robinson, she edited the 2019 anthology of new writing, A Companion to Feminist Art. Her current book project, Punk Feminisms: No Style But Strength, explores the feminist art and activism at punk’s roots. Dr. Buszek is also a prolific independent curator, who has previously worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include Danger Came Smiling: Feminist Art and Popular Music at the Franklin Street Works, Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium (with Raven Chacon and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe) at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Sensitive Content (with Alayo Akinkugbe and Helen Beard) at Unit London. In 2022, Dr. Buszek was inducted into the fellowship of the University of Colorado’s President’s Teaching Scholars. The President’s Teaching Scholars Program honors faculty from the university’s four campuses who “embody teaching, scholarship, creative work and research with excellence in all.”LinksWebsite: www.mariabuszek.comIG: maria.elena.buszekCelebrating the in Betweenness of Punk Art History: A Conversation with Maria Buszek by Daniel Makagon - Razorcake -We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 2, Episode 3, was recorded on August 8, 2025, on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Russ Bestley and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode and edited the transcript, available here.Jessica Schwartz edited the audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You heard him on the first episode alongside Russ Bestley in a discussion about co-founding and sustaining the PSN and its significant role in growing the field of punk scholarship globally. You heard him as co-host, helping shape the form and direction of this podcast. In this episode, co-hosts Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins take a deep dive into the work of prolific punk scholar, Mike Dines, as he traces his inspired journey from classical music and anarcho-punk to an epiphanic realization and Krishnacore, and recently, serving as lead editor on a handbook on popular music methodologies and hosting a podcast, as well as continuing his academic position and leadership role in the PSN. Speaking of which, we've included a clip from an AMASS song called "Academia" about the Punk Scholars Network. You won't want to miss this and, more importantly, our compelling conversation that takes new directions and, at times, probes the depths of our musical affinities in a critical context--all shared by a familiar voice amidst familiar voices.Guest Bio. Mike Dines is a British musician, writer, scholar and publisher who has written widely on subcultures and popular music, co-editing The Aesthetics of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics, Music (2016), Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture and Learning (2017), The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global (2019), Punk Now!! Contemporary Perspectives on Punk ( 2020), Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol. 2 (2020) and Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media (2021). His current writing takes him in the direction of popular music and spirituality with the co-edited collection Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music: Beatified Beats (2021). He was lead editor on The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies (2025), the first comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. He is currently Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Music and MA Professional Arts Practice at Middlesex University and is an avid supporter of Portsmouth Football Club.LinksEmail: [email protected] Mike Dines | Middlesex UniversityTales From the Punkside | Itchy Monkey PressPunk Scholars NetworkIntellect Books | Global PunkSong excerptAMASS, "Academia" Gamekeepers Gallows. 2024.-We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 2, Episode 2, was recorded on July 9, 2025, on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode and edited the transcript, available here.Jessica Schwartz edited the audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re back….with Season 2 marking the beginning of the SECOND YEAR of the Punk Scholars Podcast. And, who better to ring in the new PSP year than OG (or, OP/original punk) co-host, Paul Hollins, to help break down all things punk scholarship with our special guest, an original member of the PSN US crew–Daniel Makagon. In this episode, we–Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins–take turns asking Daniel about all things DIY, ethnography, house shows v. venues, Lollapalooza U (tune in and find out what that course offering entails), college radio, and the key to the mystery of what Daniel believes defines the core of punk (for him, at least)...here’s a couple clues - it’s not experimental fashion or radical art…-Guest Bio. Daniel Makagon received his PhD from the University of South Florida. Makagon's teaching and research interests are in urban communication, ethnography, documentary, and music industries (DIY and corporate). He is author of Underground: The Subterranean Culture of Punk House Shows (2015), Where the Ball Drops: Days and Nights in Times Square (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and co-author with Mark Neumann of Recording Culture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience (Sage, 2008). Makagon has also published articles about guerrilla art, DIY punk touring, community, and urban life in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Punk & Post Punk, Southern Communication Journal, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Text & Performance Quarterly. He is editor of a special issue of Liminalities, on "On the City", and co-editor with Michael LeVan of a special issue of Text & Performance Quarterly on the seven deadly sins. His audio documentaries have been broadcast on public radio and the internet, and he publishes a (mostly) monthly column with Razorcake magazine. Prior to becoming a professor, Makagon worked as a radio and retail promoter and then as an A&R representative in the music [email protected] @danielmakagonhttps://razorcake.org/tag/daniel-makagon/-We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 2, Episode 1, was recorded on June 13, 2025, on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode and edited the transcript, which is available HERE.Jessica Schwartz also edited the audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Philosophers theorize about changing the world. The point is to change it. And we have changed the world… hopefully [we] inspire people to not feel so isolated in these looming institutions like the academy, rather than feeling I'm not worthy, you know, putting a PSN shirt on and going, yeah, we got this. We did this.” - Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon-One year ago, we began the PSP as an extension of the Punk Scholars Network, which has branches worldwide, to amplify punk scholarship across various disciplines. The PSN has provided a supportive community, necessary when punk scholarship remains underappreciated and misunderstood. In this spirit, we welcome PSN co-founder, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon, to speak on the beginnings of the PSN, his work on authenticity (among other projects), the significance of anarcho-punk, playing in bands, and crucially, his advice to punk scholars. Don't miss this impactful conclusion to an inspired inaugural season!  Guest Bio. Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Leicester De Montfort University, UK. He is a cultural sociologist with key interests in critical theory, hauntology, the paranormal and occulture and all manifestations of subcultures and insurgent cultures. He has supervised and examined doctoral theses in the areas of local festival culture, international punk culture; folklore and digital culture. In 2012, Gords co-founded the internationally famous Punk Scholars Network with Mike Dines.  He used to record and tour internationally in such bands as Hard to Swallow, John Holmes, Geriatric Unit and Endless Grinning Skulls.  He is author of numerous academic articles and book chapters.  Most recently he authored Crass Reflections (2016) now in its fifth edition, and co-edited The Punk Reader Vol.1 (2019) and The Punk Reader Vol.2 (2021). His forthcoming research chapter is:  Gordon, A. Dines, M, Stewart, F forthcoming (2025) ‘Psychic TV: Hauntological Cultic Rejection And Autoethnographic Legacies’ in Partridge, C. Wagner, T (eds) New Religions, Spiritualties, and Popular Music, London, Bloomsbury.'LinksEmail: [email protected] Gords — Punk Scholars NetworkAlastair Gordon - De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)Discogs website (music/discography)Musical Excerpts: Geriatric Unit, “Hell Is Just Too Good For You.” Distance and Damage. 2008. -We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 12, was recorded on May 12, 2025, on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Mike Dines and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode and edited the transcript, which is available here. Jessica Schwartz also edited the audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keeping the momentum of “Live in Las Vegas,” this week we bring you Nuit Hansgen of the Punk Rock Museum and Punk Foundation. What does it mean to curate a “punk rock” museum and organize a “punk” non-profit that strives to preserve, promote, educate, and advance punk in its genealogical ties to historical social justice movements? As we punk scholars know, it takes a lot of passion, dedication, and perseverance despite the oft-heard challenges “that’s not punk” (referring to the scholarly, archival, and otherwise “institutionalizing” of punk). In this episode, Jessica Schwartz and Russ Bestley go “behind the scenes” or “displays,” as it were, and engage Nuit in questions concerning the high/low culture binary, mass produced material & punk ephemera, generational divides concerning cultural values and definitions, and the nuts, bolts, politics, and logistics of amplifying punk in the broader network of punk collections and cultural foundations. BioNuit Hansgen is an arts-world veteran whose work merges cultural heritage, technology, media, and social change in her roles as a curator, producer, and educator. During her nearly 20 years at the Kennedy Center, she led collaborations with established and emerging artists, musicians, and activists, while her work in arts and cultural heritage encompasses storytelling and story-gathering in multiple media. In 2017, Nuit founded the Cultural Archive Initiative, a nonprofit, DIY effort to locate, aggregate, preserve, and share the collective memory and material culture of the American underground. The prototyping initiative, the Punk Archive, is a DIY effort to locate, aggregate, preserve, and document American punk's cultural archives and narratives, fusing crowdsourcing, collective memory, and emerging tech to steward and share its complex, complicated history. Nuit also works closely with The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas and is working with a team to develop a nonprofit body, The Punk Foundation, to document and preserve the global cultural history of punk for future generations. Links: The Punk Rock Museum: https://www.thepunkrockmuseum.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nuit-hansgen–We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 11 was recorded on March 25, 2025 over Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Jessica Schwartz and Russ Bestley co-hosted and co-produced this episode. Jessica Schwartz edited the audio. Jessica Schwartz and Russ Bestley edited the transcript, available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Live from Las Vegas, it’s the Punk Scholars Podcast! What happens at the Punk Scholars Network conference in Vegas is now available for your listening (dis)pleasure as Jessica Schwartz interviews Fat Mike (NOFX, Punk Rock Museum) and Jennifer Precious Finch (L7, Sh!t My Rockstar Says!) with a never before heard musical collaboration to close this one of a kind interview out. Thank you to the Punk Rock Museum for hosting us. Enjoy. LinksThe Punk Rock MuseumJennifer Precious FinchFat Mike –We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 10 was recorded on March 3, 2025 “Live in Las Vegas” at the Punk Rock Museum as part of the Punk Scholars Network US and Canada Third Annual Conference. Ellen Bernhard produced the episode and gave the pre-podcast acknowledgments. Jessica Schwartz hosted the episode, and edited the audio and transcript, available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For PSP's 9th episode, we have not one…but two guests for your monthly dose of punk scholarly knowledge. Listen to co-hosts Jessica Schwartz and Russ Bestley speak with the Dublin Hope Collective’s Michael Murphy and Niall McGuirk about the history of the Hope Collective and the story of its uplifting ‘four letter word’ namesake, as well as the importance of DIY/DIT complementarity from those who live it and inspire others in their community to become involved in their many projects, working with amazing people as they grow their collaborative network. But, at the heart of the episode is our guests' organizing and academic work, so without further ado...Michael Murphy grew up in suburban Dublin and got a job in his local record shop because he spent so much time there. At University he became involved in gig organization when one of the record shop’s customers became the Entertainments Officer and put on pivotal gigs for Sinead O’Connor, Virgin Prunes, Five Go Down To The Sea, and the Pogues. Michael emigrated in 1989 and worked for Virgin records in London, and later started his own music management company. His book, Pop Music Management: Lessons from the Managers of Number One Albums, will be launched in February 2025. His co-authored book, Sounds Irish, Acts Global: Explaining the Success of Ireland's Popular Music Industry, was released in 2023.…And…Niall McGuirk was born on the opposite side of Dublin City, growing up a river between them but it felt like a million miles away in 1970’s dublin.  Music helped broaden that horizon as the small working class area suddenly became less insular thanks to going to see live bands in Dublin.  Niall played in punk bands and started putting on his own gigs rather than expecting others to do it for him.  This was the tradition of the bands he was listening to. Putting on gigs for his own bands soon broadened out as Niall realised the best way to get bands from outside Ireland to play here was to put them on himself.  Hope Promotions became the name on the poster and this spawned to Hope collective as more people helped out.   Hope went on to put on over 180 gigs in Dublin and assisted others throughout the island to do something similar.  Bands such as fugazi, Bikini Kill, Green Day, NOFX, Jawbreaker, Chumbawamba and Babes In Toyland all played gigs with the name Hope on the poster.Links:Dublin's Hope CollectiveSounds Irish, Acts Global; Explaining the Success of Ireland's Popular Music Industry; Murphy; Rogers - Equinox PublishingPop Music Management: Lessons from the Managers of Number One Albums -–We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 9 was recorded on February 13, 2025 on Zoom with participants in the UK, the US, and Ireland. Jessica Schwartz and Russ Bestley co-hosted and co-produced this episode. Jessica Schwartz edited the audio and audio-synced transcript, available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s 2025, and the PSP team will not sugarcoat it; we know it has already been quite a mixed bag for many of us. And yet, we can say that our first PSP episode of the New Year offers some critical respite and contemplative hope through much-needed insight into the historical narratives, systematized barriers, and problematic feedback loops that echo loudly in the process of punk’s institutionalization. Join Jessica Schwartz and guest co-host Mike Dines as we talk with our guest, Francis Stewart, about how her scholarship and organizing (in and beyond academia) challenge the taken-for-granted concepts and locate the terms on which these inequitable processes are founded and become the modes of exclusion and control, and, in doing so, amplify the stories and voices of people who have never accepted the punk’s normalizing gatekeeping mechanisms. Guest Bio. Francis Stewart is a lecturer in social theory and postcolonial sociology within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling in Scotland (and accepting PhD students). She is also the Director of the Edward Bailey Research Centre for the study of Implicit Religion. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Francis did her PhD at Stirling for the first ever study of Straight Edge punk and its connections to categories or understandings of religion (2011). This became Punk Rock is my Religion: Straight Edge Punk and ‘Religious’ Experiences, published by Routledge in 2017. In the intervening years she has been a research fellow and the programme leader for Sociology in Lincoln, before returning to Stirling in August 2023. She has published extensively on aspects of punk and religion; punk and animal rights, marginalisation in punk; punk pedagogies; and punk and anarchism in Northern Ireland. She recently co-edited Punk Pedagogies: Disruptions and Connections with Laura Way, published by Intellect in 2023. She is currently working on two projects, one exploring disability within Irish and N Irish punk as a legacy of colonialism, and the other on demarcation and borders through sound within Northern Ireland.Links Free copy of “Beyond Boundaries?” (latest article)PSN Bio.Northern Ireland punk scene documentaries:1980 Belfast Punk (BBC)The A Center Belfast (1981)–We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 8 was recorded on January 18, 2025 over Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Jessica Schwartz and Mike Dines co-hosted and co-produced this episode. Jessica Schwartz edited the audio. Jessica Schwartz and Mike Dines edited the transcript, available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On behalf of the Punk Scholars Network/PSN, the Punk Scholars Podcast/PSP team wanted to wish all you punks out there (and all you non-punks, too) the very best for the holiday season and an even better start to the New Year. On this episode filled with seasonal good cheer, your co-hosts, Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz, keep the punk tunes ringing and insights coming right along with the laughs as they share holiday gig stories and, as a gesture of appreciation, reflections on the PSP’s first six episodes’ esteemed guests who brought their knowledge, dedication, and unique contributions to punk scholarship into the zoom studio. We can’t wait to share the voices of more punk scholars worldwide as we expand the show’s breadth and reach. So, thanks for listening in 2024. Here’s to 2025…Cheers! Musical excerpts“Fairytale of New York” - the Pogues (feat. Kirsty MacColl)“Christmas Time for My Penis” - the Vandals“I’m Getting Pissed for Christmas” - Peter and the Test Tube Babies“Silent Night” - the Dickies “A Merry Jingle” - the Greedies“Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)” - the Ramones“Ambition” - Subway Sect“The Lonely Jew on Christmas” - Frightwig* “It’s Gonna Be a Punk Rock Christmas This Year” - the Majorettes**from the Riot Grrrl Christmas compilation-We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 7 was recorded on November 27, 2024 on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode. Jessica Schwartz edited the audio and the transcript, available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many are familiar with the commonplace narrative that punk is a “youth subculture” or mainstreamed media representations that center juvenile male figures as embodying punk’s defiant attitude and irreverent spirit across the subculture’s historical epochs. In this episode, be prepared to take all that gendered, sexist and ageist conditioning that comes with advanced capitalism’s values and have it challenged by one of the earliest Punk Scholars Network scholars, Dr. Laura Way. Drawing on her sociological studies and punk methodologies, Laura details the importance of listening to punks’ experiences at the intersections of gender, aging, and ability (broadly understood). While her monograph focuses on women, Laura also shares with us her community-based work with young fathers, showcasing the creative connections between thinking relations, community, and temporality through the dynamism of identity–and, crucially punk identity: the capacious ways in which we identify ourselves over time in compelling tension with how society thinks we ought to express such identities.  About Our GuestLaura Way is a feminist sociologist with research interest in ageing and gender, creative and participatory methods, marginalised identities, punk pedagogies, music and subcultures. Laura's PhD led to her monograph Punk, Gender and Ageing: Just Typical Girls? (published in 2020, Emerald Press). Laura worked as a Research Fellow on the 'Following Young Fathers Further’ study (2020-4) and recently held a BA Innovation Fellowship for a collaborative project with a local Travellers' organisation. Laura is currently a senior lecturer and programme leader in sociology at the University of Roehampton (and accepting PhD students). She has recently published the book Punk, Ageing and Time, co-edited with Matt Grimes (the first collection bringing together work on punk, time/temporality and ageing), and worked with Portrait Youth and North East Young Dads and Lads on a project with young fathers exploring dress and identity. The photographs from this work are currently being exhibited at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle. She has been a Punk Scholar’s Network member since co-organising the first PSN conference with Mike Dines. For More Info.Scholarship: Laura Way — University of Roehampton Research ExplorerFollowing Young Fathers Further: Following Young Fathers FurtherAnd a little flashback to some band days, ha!: Disarray - Mother Nature (youtube.com)-We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 6 was recorded on October 2, 2024 on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode. Jessica Schwartz edited the audio. Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins edited the transcript, available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It all began with Crass… at least, it did for our guest for our fifth episode, Matt Grimes. Going to great lengths to get Crass’ album Feeding of the 5000 (1978), Grimes explains his introduction to punk and his immersion into punk through anarcho-punk, which became a critical prism opening up ways of framing the world and making sense of its systemic processes. These critical and creative processes--rather than the ‘End Result’--are what Grimes values in his punk pedagogy. And, we get into community and communities, reggae, diaspora, Birmingham’s historical music contributions, and much more. But if you’re here for soccer, err, football, Matt Grimes is a proud Millwall fan. His story of team support draws on the complexity of multigenerational place-based cultural connections and intergenerational shifts. Turning back to our PSP focus, Grimes shares insights about memory, nostalgia, temporality, and aging in punk per his seminal co-edited collection with Laura Way: Punk, Ageing and Time (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). About Our GuestMatt Grimes is the General Secretary of the Punk Scholars Network and co-ordinates the PSN International affiliates. He is a member of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR) where his research interests include anarcho-punk and DIY punk scenes; ageing within popular music scenes; popular music, memory and nostalgia; DIY music cultures/subcultures and scenes; music industries, innovation and entrepreneurship. Matt sits on the editorial board for the PSN Global Punk book series, Punk & Post-Punk and Riffs: Journal of Experimental Writing on Popular Music. Matt is also Course Director for the BA (Hons) Music Industries and a Senior Lecturer in Music Industries and Radio at Birmingham City University, where he teaches primarily on the BA (Hons) Music Industries course in the Birmingham School of Media, as well as on a range of undergraduate and post-graduate programmes across the Birmingham Institute of Media and English and Faculty of Art, Design and Media. Publications include the co-edited Punk Now! Contemporary Perspectives on Punk (2020) and Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media (Intellect, 2021).Additional Links (more in bio):Academia.eduResearchgateMusical excerpts: Crass, “Punk’s Not Dead”; Dr. Alimantado, “Poison Flour”–We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 5 was recorded on August 27, 2024 on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode. Jessica Schwartz edited the audio. Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins edited the transcript, available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wow, all. Can you believe that we’re already four episodes into the Punk Scholars Podcast?! And do we have an episode for you…Introducing Ellen Bernhard - she’s the current President of the Punk Scholars Network US, and she has done compelling work on contemporary US punk scenes and has a knack for critical interrogations of punk humor. Her entry point into punk and its scholarly endeavors offers a critical contemplation on punk's mass mediation and compels conversations around that which her work and publications have touched: community, inclusion, and diversity in scenes. So give this episode a listen and learn from our resident Media and Communications punk scholar, Dr. Ellen Bernhard. About Our GuestEllen Bernhard is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Georgian Court University in New Jersey and President of the PSN US chapter. Her research focuses on contemporary punk scenes and their relationships with popular culture and current events. Recent research addresses the connection between fans’ early introductions to punk rock via commercial means (Punk-O-Rama and Tony Hawk’s Pro-Skater soundtracks) and contextualizes these introductions into an understanding of a current punk rock identity. Ellen is also interested in the rhetoric of punk and the genre’s use of humor to critique and satirize. Her most recent article, “Conspicuous Co-Optation: Exploring the Subculture and Pop Culture Connection at Gainesville’s Fest” was published in Punk & Post-Punk in 2023. Her book, Contemporary Punk Rock Communities: Scenes of Inclusion and Dedication was published by Lexington Books in 2019. Currently, Ellen is co-editing a volume, tentatively titled Bad Religion: Punk Politics, Philosophy and Pedagogy, with Paul Fields at Buckinghamshire New University. She is also working on an article that looks at the semiotic lampooning that unfolded at a punk show that took place at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the site of Rudy Giuliani’s disastrous press conference in Philadelphia following the 2020 US presidential election.Ellen’s PSP Playlist:Adolescents. 1981. "Amoeba." Adolescents.; Bad Religion. 1989. "Change of ideas." No Control.; Copyrights. 2014. "Away we go." Report. Descendents. 2021. "Nightage." 9th and Walnut.; Hot Water Music. 2022. "Collect your things and run." Feel the Void.; Lawrence Arms. 2006. "Lose your illusion 1." Oh! Calcutta!; Menzingers. 2010. "Home outgrown." Chamberlain Waits.; None More Black. 2010. "Iron mouth act." Icons.; Nothington. 2009. "Not looking down." Roads, Bridges and Ruins.; Rancid. 1994. "Gave it away."Let’s Go! Links/For More Information PSN ig: @punkscholarsnetwork.usMy ig: @dr.elliesohoEmail: [email protected]–We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 4 was recorded on August 20, 2024 on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode. Jessica Schwartz edited the audio. Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins edited the transcript, available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, co-hosts and producers, Jessica Schwartz (UCLA) and Paul Hollins (Bolton), are immersed in the world of British punk history as it unfolds as a creative, complex, critical, and artistically heterogeneous way of experimenting with identity and/as culture. And, we were kept in suspense with the Sham 69 question… You won’t want to miss the breakdown of this question and our overall journey into Britain’s punk history with Professor Matthew Worley who explains the messiness of it all in such a clear way–offering connections between punk and porn (via the Enlightenment!), and how punk can be appreciated as decidedly political while also having its historical connections to (and, at times being co-opted and pulled between) capital “P” political movements. About Our GuestMatthew Worley is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading. His books include No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–84 (2017) and Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines, 1976–88 (2024). Associated articles may be found in such journals as Contemporary British History, History Workshop, Twentieth Century British History, and Journal of British Studies. He is a co-founder of the Subcultures Network and sometimes a collaborator with the artist Scott King under the banner of Crash!For More Information Subcultures Network Punk in the EastOur Subversive Voice · The history and politics of the English protest songPast! Future! In Extreme!: Looking for Meaning in the "New Romantics", 1978-82 - YouTubeFull article: Whip in my valise: British punk and the Marquis de Sade, c. 1975–85 Zerox Machine | Reaktion Books–We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 3 was recorded on July 2, 2024 on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode. Jessica Schwartz edited the audio. Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins edited the transcript, available here.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back with the second PSP episode, and to say this is a must-listen is an understatement...From the Marquis de Sade to Yoko Ono, from Jordan in London 1976 to Bertolt Brecht’s Pirate Jenny in Berlin 1928, from the art of smashing an instrument to play vs. work—Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins met up with Marie Arleth Skov to talk all things punk and art history. We talked about the rejection of the male genius and the negation of the notion of progress, about how sometimes in punk, the false is true, and the surreal is real, about the isolation of West Berlin, and TOO MUCH FUTURE in the GDR. And just a little bit about Ani f*cking DiFranco.About Our GuestDr. Marie Arleth Skov is a Danish art historian who lives in Berlin. She has written numerous articles and book chapters about punk and art ~ and about punk and art history, especially the connections to Dada and surrealism. She has also written a book called PUNK ART HISTORY: Artworks from the European No Future Generation, which was published by Intellect Books in 2023. Currently, she is researching for a large exhibition about the topic of the body in punk, which is set to open at ARoS art museum in Denmark in 2026.For More Information Intellect Books | Punk Art History - Artworks from the European No Future Generation, By Marie Arleth SkovResearch project on the body in punk culture to form basis of a new ARoS exhibitionMarie Arleth Skov — Punk Scholars NetworkPunk Art History Playlist - playlist by MAS | SpotifyMusical Examples (excerpted from “Punk Art History Playlist”)“Midsummer New York.” Yoko Ono. Source: Secretly Canadian / Chimera Music“L'Anarchie Pour Le UK.” Performed by Louis Brennon, Sex Pistols. Written by Glen Matlock, John Lydon, Paul Cook, Stephen Philip Jones. Produced by Dave Goodman. Source: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).“Die Dreigroschenoper: Akt II, Die Seeräuber-Jenny oder Träume eines Küchenmädchens” ("Meine Herren, heute sehen Sie mich Gläser abwaschen") Performed by Lotte Lenya, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg, Wolfgang Neuss. Written by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill. Source: Sony Classical—-The PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 2 was recorded on June 10, 2024 on Zoom with participants in Germany, the UK, and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode. Jessica Schwartz edited the audio. Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins edited the transcript. Contact us at: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s here… the Punk Scholars Podcast! Co-hosts and producers, Jessica Schwartz (UCLA) and Paul Hollins (Bolton), set out to explore the seemingly paradoxical role of punk (and punks) in the academy and break with oft-generalized dismissals by highlighting the pivotal contributions and necessary interventions made by punk scholarship.And, who better to kick off the first episode than Punk Scholars Network (PSN) founding members Mike Dines (Chair and Co-founder of the PSN) and Russ Bestley (Designer and Writer). Our two illustrious guests have been at the forefront of the formation and development of the PSN, and we get in deep about issues of institutional legitimacy and the absolute necessity of punk scholars’ (networked) camaraderie. Both informative and poignant, this inaugural episode of the Punk Scholars Podcast (PSP) sets the stage for what promises to be an educational, engaging, and dare we say entertaining first season! About Our GuestsDr. Russ Bestley is Reader in Graphic Design & Subcultures at London College of Communication. His areas of interest include graphic design, popular culture, subcultures, comedy and humour. He is Lead Editor of the academic journal Punk & Post-Punk, now in its thirteenth year, Series Editor and Art Director for the Global Punk book series published by Intellect Books and a founding member of the Punk Scholars Network. In 2013, he established the Graphic Subcultures research hub at the London College of Communication, before going on to form the UAL Subcultures Interest Group in 2022. Mike Dines is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader of BA (Hons) Music at Middlesex University. He is Chair and co-founder of the Punk Scholars Network and Series Editor for the Global Punk Series with Intellect Books. He has written extensively on punk (specifically spirituality and Krishnacore), subcultures and New Age Travellers, with recent volumes including the co-edited Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music: Beatified Beats (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media (Intellect 2021). He is Lead Editor of the ground-breaking The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies due for publication in 2025. He is an avid supporter of Portsmouth Football Club.For More Information Russ: www.hitsvilleuk.comMike: http://itchymonkeypress.com/Both:https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-punk-serieshttps://www.intellectbooks.com/punk-post-punk–We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: [email protected] PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved. Season 1, Episode 1 was recorded on May 22, 2024 on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode. Jessica Schwartz edited the audio and transcript.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.