NOFX forty years of "problematic" punk provocations / edited by Ellen Bernhard, Stefano Morello, and David Pearson.
| Other author | Bernhard, Ellen M. |
| Other author | Morello, Stefano. |
| Other author | Pearson, David (David M.) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
| Description | x, 238 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : So long, and thanks for all the provocations / David Pearson, Ellen Bernhard, Stefano Morello -- Part 1: Punk humor and satire. They've actually gotten smarter : NOFX, rhetorical snottiness, and punk continuities / David A. Ensminger ; Music speaks louder than words (or maybe about the same) : humor and meaning through NOFX's subversion of expectations / Jose M. Garza, Jr. ; Beer and joking in Las Vegas : punk humor and punk hypocrisy / Paul Fields -- Part 2: Politics and futurities. From no future to nope, future : NOFX's contradictory approaches to punk rock in perpetuity / Ellen Bernhard ; Leave it to Fat Mike : PunkVoter as infrastructure of dissent / Stefano Morello ; The error state : Becoming radical while punk gets liberal / Joseph Boisvere -- Part 3: Identity and representation. It's complicated : NOFX, white masculinity, and the ambivalences of punk / Justus Grebe ; Don't call me "bro" and don't call me cis : Fat Mike's queer(ed) punk performativity / John Ike Sewell ; Radically queer community in home street home / Michael Simmons -- Part 4: Being and sounding punk. "Kicking in heads at the punk rock show" : how NOFX performs punk authenticity / Robbie Segars ; Because I'm punk! How NOFX navigated its social evaluations among punks / Timothy G. Pollock and Lorenz Graf-Vlachy ; On sybaritic sounds, NOFX, and the harmonic-timbral line / Lance D. Morrison ; The sounds of soul doubt in the music of NOFX and the aesthetics of Gen X romanticism / David Pearson. |
| Abstract | "This 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. NOFX's aesthetics of provocation and discomfort force us to think about the positive value and problems caused by a longstanding attitude within punk, namely the disposition towards shocking and offending mainstream society. Their music challenges notions of punk as simplistic, stripped-down rock requiring little musical skill, as the band has incorporated virtuosic guitar and bass playing, an array of chords and harmonic approaches, borrowings from various musical styles, and song structures of considerable complexity, broadening punk's expressive possibilities in the process"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024051309 |
| ISBN | 9798765128602 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9798765128619 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |