Ripped, torn and cut: Pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976
Keith Gildart, Anna Gough-Yates, Sian Lincoln, Bill Osgerby, Lucy Robinson, John Street, Pete Webb, and Matthew Worley
Abstract
Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind – and the politics within – the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976. Sniffin’ Glue (1976–77), Mark Perry’s iconic punk fanzine, was but the first of many, paving the way for hundreds of home-made magazines to be cut and pasted in bedrooms across the UK. From these, glimpses into provincial cultures, teenage style wars and formative political ideas may be gleaned. An alternative history, away from the often-condescending glare of London’s media and music industry, ca ... More
Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind – and the politics within – the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976. Sniffin’ Glue (1976–77), Mark Perry’s iconic punk fanzine, was but the first of many, paving the way for hundreds of home-made magazines to be cut and pasted in bedrooms across the UK. From these, glimpses into provincial cultures, teenage style wars and formative political ideas may be gleaned. An alternative history, away from the often-condescending glare of London’s media and music industry, can be formulated, drawn from such titles as Ripped & Torn, Brass Lip, City Fun, Vague, Kill Your Pet Puppy, Toxic Grafity, Hungry Beat and Hard as Nails. Here, in a pre-internet world, we see the development of networks and the dissemination of punk’s cultural impact as it fractured into myriad sub-scenes: industrial, post-punk, anarcho, Oi!, indie, goth. Ripped, torn and cut brings together academic analysis with practitioner accounts to forge a collaborative history ‘from below’. The first book of its kind, this collection reveals the contested nature of punk’s cultural politics by turning the pages of a vibrant underground press.
Keywords:
Fanzines,
Punk,
Subculture,
Counterculture,
Politics,
Popular Music
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781526120595 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: January 2019 |
DOI:10.7228/manchester/9781526120595.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Keith Gildart, editor
University of Wolverhampton
Anna Gough-Yates, editor
University of Roehampton
Sian Lincoln, editor
Liverpool John Moores University
Bill Osgerby, editor
London Metropolitan University
Lucy Robinson, editor
University of Sussex
John Street, editor
University of East Anglia
Pete Webb, editor
University of the West of England
Matthew Worley, editor
University of Reading
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