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Green Day has often been treated as a problem in the “longview” of punk: too popular, too melodic, too commercial, too successful. Green Day and the Politics of Pop-Punk starts from the opposite assumption. Green Day matters precisely because the band’s career makes it impossible to separate punk from the mass-cultural conditions it has so often claimed to resist. This edited collection offers the first sustained scholarly reassessment of Green Day and their place in the history of punk, pop-punk, and popular music.
Rather than rehearse familiar arguments about punk purity, this volume asks what Green Day’s career reveals about pop-punk as a cultural form. Often dismissed as juvenile, commercial, or apolitical, pop-punk became one of the most widely available languages through which late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century youth culture articulated cultural and political critique. Green Day’s oeuvre and publics offer a privileged site for thinking about many of the tensions that have animated pop-punk, and punk more broadly, since its early days, including underground credibility versus mass appeal, local scenes versus global circulation, youth refusal versus nostalgic retrospection, and political dissent versus anti-programmatic refusal.
We invite chapter proposals from scholars working in punk studies, popular music studies, American studies, cultural studies, media and communication studies, musicology, performance studies, gender and sexuality studies, youth culture studies, and related fields. We also welcome submissions from archivists, musicians, critics, journalists, and other writer-practitioners whose work engages punk as a lived cultural practice. Chapters should be scholarly and well researched, but written in an accessible style suitable for students, scholars, and intellectually curious readers beyond the academy.
This book, edited by Ellen Bernhard, Stefano Morello, and David Pearson, will be part of the forthcoming book series Punk: Beyond Its Beginnings, published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Read the full CFP here: https://eastbaypunkda.com/gd/
Email proposals to: punkbeyonditsbeginnings@gmail.com
