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Nofx: Forty Years of "Problematic" Punk Provocations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798765128619)
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xThis collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum.
This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort push the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum. For forty years, NOFX's brand of witty, offensive, humorous, juvenile, intelligent, existential, political, politically incorrect, and/or philosophically probing punk has reared several generations in punk attitude and ethos, for better or worse. The band pioneered melodic yet hardcore So-Cal punk style, rode the wave of mainstream punk popularity in the 1990s, protested the Bush administration in the 2000s, and continued their punk provocations up through their retirement in 2024. This book explores how NOFX pursued punk's proclivity for provocation to critique both mainstream society and the punk scene itself, how their music challenges notions of punk as simplistic, stripped-down rock requiring little musical skill, and other topics with thirteen essays from scholars in a variety of fields.
Author: David Pearson
ISBN-13: 9798765128619
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2025
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort push the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum. For forty years, NOFX's brand of witty, offensive, humorous, juvenile, intelligent, existential, political, politically incorrect, and/or philosophically probing punk has reared several generations in punk attitude and ethos, for better or worse. The band pioneered melodic yet hardcore So-Cal punk style, rode the wave of mainstream punk popularity in the 1990s, protested the Bush administration in the 2000s, and continued their punk provocations up through their retirement in 2024. This book explores how NOFX pursued punk's proclivity for provocation to critique both mainstream society and the punk scene itself, how their music challenges notions of punk as simplistic, stripped-down rock requiring little musical skill, and other topics with thirteen essays from scholars in a variety of fields.
Author: David Pearson
ISBN-13: 9798765128619
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2025
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
By David Pearson
xDavid Pearson is Adjunct Associate Professor at Lehman College, USA. He is the author of Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States (2021).
Stefano Morello is Assistant Director for Digital Projects at the American Social History Project at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA. He has curated the East Bay Punk Digital Archive, The Beats in/and Italy, and The Lung Block exhibits. He is co-editor-in-chief of JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Amèrica Critica and the book series Transatlantic Transfers. Ellen Bernhard is Assistant Professor of Communication at Georgian Court University, USA. She is the author of Contemporary Punk Rock Communities: Scenes of Inclusion and Dedication (2019). She is the president of the Punk Scholars Network US affiliate and sits on the editorial boards of the journal Punk & Post-Punk and the Global Punk book series.Recently Viewed Products
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