We're Having Much More Fun
Punk Archives for the Present from CBGB to Gilman and Beyond
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Product details:
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Date of Publication 15 March 2026
- ISBN 9781501780325
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 254x203 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 420 color halftones 700
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In We're Having Much More Fun Judith A. Peraino and Tom McEnaney celebrate the ways punks have built and documented their own misfit collectives since the mid-1970s, assembling alternative worlds of riotous music, art, fashion, and writing. This book ranges across the United States and over multiple generations, highlighting the diverse people who make punk happen. Over four hundred color images of rare flyers, photos, zines, letters, and more showcase the creative and political energy that has fueled punk from the start. New interviews and essays featuring Aaron Cometbus, Anna Joy Springer (Blatz, Gr'ups, and Cypher in the Snow), Fayette Hauser (on Tomata du Plenty), Ian MacKaye (Dischord Records and Fugazi), Jayne County, KK Barrett and Tommy Gear (the Screamers), Martín Sorrondeguy (Los Crudos and Limp Wrist), Orlando Xavier (Special Forces and United Blood), Sylvia Reed (on Anya Phillips), and Victoria Ruiz (Downtown Boys) – as well as captions by additional artists, photographers, and fans – tell the stories behind the images, music, and scenes. Every page is an invitation from punk's past and present to build your own future.
MoreTable of Contents:
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Introduction: The Futures of Punk's Past, or Putting the Archive to Use
1. Being Different in New York: Punk Begins Underground
2. Image Gallery
3. ""Punk was me on stage wrecking"":: An interview with Jayne County
4. Two Chinese girls"" in the NYC Punk Scene: An interview with Sylvia Reed on Anya Phillips
5. Doing the Future Yourself: The Screamers and Early Los Angeles Punk
6. From Seattle to ""a sunnier destination"": The Underground Origins of the Screamers
7. ""Punk is the last incarnation of the counterculture"":: An Interview with Fayette Hauser on Tomata du Plenty and Cultural Transformation
8. ""We wanted to de-codify it"": An Interview with KK Barrett on the Screamers
9. Image Gallery
10. Magazine Love: Ian MacKaye and Martín Sorrondeguy on Discovering the Screamers
11. Peace or Annihilation: The Politics of Punk in the Bay Area
12. Image Gallery
13. Ticker Tape from the Punk Parade
14. Maps for the Groundless
15. ""I was a very timid child"":: An Interview with Orlando Xavier
16. Be a Crossroads! Punk Beyond Borders
17. Image Gallery
18. ""You got to make it happen or it ain't going to happen."" An Interview with Martín Sorrondeguy
19. Punk and the Means of Production: No Dream or Nightmare Deferred
