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David Pearson is Adjunct Associate Professor at Lehman College, USA. He is the author of Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States (2021).Stefano Morello is Assistant Director for Digital Projects at the American Social History Project at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA. He has curated the East Bay Punk Digital Archive, The Beats in/and Italy, and The Lung Block exhibits. He is co-editor-in-chief of JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Amèrica Critica and the book series Transatlantic Transfers. Ellen Bernhard is Assistant Professor of Communication at Georgian Court University, USA. She is the author of Contemporary Punk Rock Communities: Scenes of Inclusion and Dedication (2019). She is the president of the Punk Scholars Network US affiliate and sits on the editorial boards of the journal Punk & Post-Punk and the Global Punk book series.

Forget what you think you know about NOFX. NOFX: Forty Years of “Problematic” Punk Provocations throws out the rulebook, delivering a rigorous dissection of punk's most notorious provocateurs through the lens of academic scholarship. This isn't a typical band biography – it's an x-ray into NOFX, revealing the intricate socio-political forces that shaped their four-decade career from the early years to their retirement. Offering insight into the band's complex relationship with politics, controversy, their self-deprecation and unpredictable humor, this collection of essays is a must-have addition to any punk library and serves as an essential companion to their acclaimed Hepatitis Bathtub memoirs. Prepare to be challenged, enlightened, and utterly captivated.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: So Long, and Thanks for All the Provocations by Ellen Bernhard (Georgian Court University, USA), Stefano Morello (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA), and David Pearson (Lehman College, USA)Part 1: Punk Humor and Satire1. They’ve Actually Gotten Smarter: NOFX, Rhetorical Snottiness, and Punk Continuities by David Ensminger (Lee College, USA)2. Music Speaks Louder than Words (Or Maybe About the Same): Humor and Meaning Through NOFX’s Subversion of Expectations by Jose M. Garza, Jr. (Texas State University, USA)3. Beer and Joking in Las Vegas: Punk Humor and Punk Hypocrisy by Paul Fields (Buckinghamshire New University, UK)Part 2: Politics and Futurities4. From No Future to Nope, Future: NOFX’s Contradictory Approaches to Punk Rock in Perpetuity by Ellen Bernhard (Georgian Court University, USA)5. Leave it to Fat Mike: PunkVoter as Infrastructure of Dissent by Stefano Morello (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)6. The Error State: Becoming Radical While Punk Gets Liberal by Joseph Boisvere (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)Part 3: Identity and Representation7. It’s Complicated: NOFX, White Masculinity, and the Ambivalences of Punk by Justus Grebe (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany)8. Don’t Call me “Bro” and Don’t Call Me Cis: Fat Mike’s Queer(ed) Punk Performativity by John Ike Sewell (University of West Georgi, USA) 9. Radically Queer Community in Home Street Home by Michael Simmons (College of the Canyons, USA)Part 4: Being and Sounding Punk10. “Kicking in Heads at the Punk Rock Show”: How NOFX Performs Punk Authenticity by Robbie Segars (University of North Texas, USA)11. Because I’m Punk! How NOFX Navigated its Social Evaluations and those of Punk Rock by Lorenz Graf-Vlachy (TU Dortmund University, Germany) and Timothy Pollock (University of Tennessee, USA)12. Sybaritic Sounds, NOFX, and the Harmonic-Timbral Line by Lance D. Morrison (Boston University, USA)13. The Sounds of Soul Doubt in the Music of NOFX and the Aesthetics of Gen X Romanticism by David Pearson (Lehman College, USA)Index