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.

I have never read a book about the origins of the politics of punk that includes music notation of punk songs and musicology analysis that explores the bonds of sonics and lyrics. A singular book on punk that even my jazz-piano-playing son would read!

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Out of the "Dregs of the Eighties" and Screaming at the New World OrderChapter 2: Crust-Punk/Dis-Core and the Codification of Propaganda MusicChapter 3: The Dystopian Sublime of Extreme Hardcore PunkChapter 4: Whose Rebellion was Punk in the 1990s?Part 1: "Hispanisizing Punk"Part 2: Not Just Boys' FunChapter 5: Punk's Popularity Anxieties and the Introspective Aggression of So-Cal Punk.Part 1: Punk's Popularity AnxietiesPart 2: The Introspective Aggression of So-Cal PunkConclusionBibliographyIndex

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.

I have never read a book about the origins of the politics of punk that includes music notation of punk songs and musicology analysis that explores the bonds of sonics and lyrics. A singular book on punk that even my jazz-piano-playing son would read!

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Out of the "Dregs of the Eighties" and Screaming at the New World OrderChapter 2: Crust-Punk/Dis-Core and the Codification of Propaganda MusicChapter 3: The Dystopian Sublime of Extreme Hardcore PunkChapter 4: Whose Rebellion was Punk in the 1990s?Part 1: "Hispanisizing Punk"Part 2: Not Just Boys' FunChapter 5: Punk's Popularity Anxieties and the Introspective Aggression of So-Cal Punk.Part 1: Punk's Popularity AnxietiesPart 2: The Introspective Aggression of So-Cal PunkConclusionBibliographyIndex