Routledge

Routledge

English

'This is a history which deserves, indeed needs, to be told. That Dale has chosen to attempt to make sense of a subject so diverse and self-contradictory as this is laudable. If the anarcho-punk tenet ’there is no authority but yourself’ is to be followed, then he has admirably succeeded in proving his point - ’le punk est mort, vive le punk’. Penny Rimbaud, former member of Crass 'A long-needed study... promise[s] to become central to current research in the area of punk rock.' - North American British Music Studies Association Newsletter “Dale’s study is theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous, mediating between closereadings of songs and historical, social, political and philosophical themes… The book iscommendably ambitious in its thematic range.” - Wilkinson, D., Worley, M. and Street, J. (2016) ‘“I Wanna See Some History”: Recent Writing on British Punk’, Contemporary European History