Editorial

Bestley, Russ; Dale, Pete

doi:10.1386/punk.7.1.3_2

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“…Bestley's tentative critical positionality on the subject is also evident in another article published in a 2018 special issue of the journal Punk and Post-Punk Studies on the theme of DIY. As articulated in its introduction (called an ‘editorial’, thus here a statement on the position of knowledge and presumably journal policy) the aim of the special issue is ‘to question some accepted tropes’ of DIY while noting ‘ [o]f course ’ that ‘the DIY maxim is central to a wide range of punk and post-punk activity’ (Bestley and Dale, 2018: 3; emphases added). Effectively the journal introduction seems to dilute any critical interrogation of DIY that might follow in the special issue down to settle instead on some pretty low-level challenges.…”

Section: Challenging the Diy/punk Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Was punk DIY? Is DIY punk? Interrogating the DIY/punk nexus, with particular reference to the early UK punk scene, c. 1976–1984

McKay

2023

DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society

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This article offers a critical provocation and reconceptualisation of the DIY/punk nexus, both to challenge the standard critical narrative of punk as originary DIY culture and to liberate the broader practice of DIY from the limits of punk. It critically traces the development of the discourse of DIY both in original British punk c. 1976–1984 and in what has become punk studies, mapping the development of the scholarly orthodoxy. It then challenges the latter via an interrogation of aspects of punk that have been repeatedly presented in the scholarship as evidence of its DIY-ness: punk mediation, instrumentation, and participation. These three then constitute a context for the central and more detailed critical exploration of the most widely accepted DIY/punk practice, the independent or self-produced record, which is also read as ‘non-DIY.’ The article concludes by widening the critical gaze via a call for DIY to undergo a process of depunking.

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Section: Challenging the Diy/punk Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%