John Goshert (Utah Valley University)
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During the 1970s-1980s golden age and beyond, the San Francisco Bay Area was home to one of the most active and diverse punk scenes in the United States. The scene built upon the long history of radical politics and experiments in alternative living that characterized the Bay Area during the 20th century. This special session features presentations on punk culture and/or related topics and issues from any period. Papers may also focus on other subcultures and alternative cultures, and those that address aspects of this year’s conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion".
During the 1970s-1980s golden age and beyond, the San Francisco Bay Area was home to one of the most active and diverse punk scenes in the United States. The scene built upon the long history of radical politics and experiments in alternative living that characterized the Bay Area during the 20th century. This special session seeks proposals on punk culture and/or related topics and issues from any period. Proposals on other subcultures and alternative cultures, and those that address aspects of this year’s conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” are also welcome.
Proposals may address Bay Area punk culture and/or punk music and culture generally, including:
· Bands: Avengers, Beatnigs, Crime, Crimpshrine, Dead Kenndys, Fang, Flipper, Frightwig, MDC, Negativland, Neurosis, the Nuns, Special Forces, Spitboy, Victim’s Family, etc.
· Venues: The Farm, Gilman Street, Komotion, La Peña, Mabuhay Gardens, Phoenix Theater, Ruthie’s, Tool and Die, etc.
· Labels and Distros: 415, Alternative Tentacles, Boner, Lookout, Mordam, MRR, R-Radical, Subterranean, etc.
· Zines: Cometbus, Creep, Homocore, Lookout, MRR, Search and Destroy, etc.
· Political/Theoretical/Ideological contexts: Anarchism, Anticonsumerism, Avant-Gardism, Communism, Dadaism, DIY, Environmentalism, Existentialism, Nihilism, Situationism, Surrealism, etc.
· Punk Film and Documentaries
· Punk Style, Subcultures and Subgenres
Proposals may also explore related/adjacent subcultures and movements in the Bay Area and beyond, such as
· The Beats: City Lights, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Merry Pranksters, etc.
· New Left: Antiauthoritarianism, Free Speech Movement, Marcuse, SDS, Weather Underground, etc.
· Counterculture: Bohemianism, Cockettes, Hippies, SF Mime Troupe, Survival Research, Yippees, etc.
· Liberationism: American Indian Movement, Black Panthers, Gay Liberation, Radical Feminism, Third World Liberation Front, etc.