This history of the 1990s underground punk renaissance in the US traces punk participation in protest movements, Latino and women-led bands, and the debate over staying DIY versus "selling out." It is full of accessible musical analysis of various styles of punk, including crust-punk, extreme hardcore, and So-Cal punk.

David Pearson, Adjunct assistant professor in the music department, Lehman College, CUNY

David Pearson holds a PhD in musicology from CUNY Graduate Center and is an adjunct assistant professor in the music department at Lehman College. His research focuses on American popular music of recent decades, such as punk and rap. As a saxophonist, David has performed twentieth-century and contemporary art music, jazz, rock, and various improvised musics, and currently plays in the Afrotronik funk group Digital Diaspora.

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Out of the "Dregs of the Eighties" and Screaming at the New World Order


• Chapter 2: Crust-Punk/Dis-Core and the Codification of Propaganda Music


• Chapter 3: The Dystopian Sublime of Extreme Hardcore Punk


• Chapter 4: Whose Rebellion was Punk in the 1990s?


• Part 1: "Hispanisizing Punk"


• Part 2: Not Just Boys' Fun


• Chapter 5: Punk's Popularity Anxieties and the Introspective Aggression of So-Cal Punk.


• Part 1: Punk's Popularity Anxieties


• Part 2: The Introspective Aggression of So-Cal Punk


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index