Current Music Books
Sorry in advance for the shameless self-promotion, but I figure folks into punk might want to know about it and others will just jump to another thread. My new book is out now in the US, Canada, and the UK. Underground: The Subterranean Culture of DIY Punk Spaces is about the emergence of a DIY punk touring network in the US. The book focuses on the development of local and regional DIY show promotion efforts in the early 1980s that ultimately transformed into a more sustainable national network in the 1990s. Since that time bands can tour the US, primarily playing shows in people's houses, volunteer-run community spaces, and a mix of other alternative locations (e.g., boxing gyms, the woods, stalled housing developments). They aren't making a lot of money and few become known outside the DIY punk circuit, but they are modeling an economic and social alternative to mainstream music industry practices and experiences.
I'm including a link to the publisher's site. If you write for a music publication and might be up for doing a review please send me a PM and I'll put you in touch with someone at the press. If you do a radio show or a podcast and might be interested in doing an interview, I would be up for it. Again, sorry about pushing my own stuff instead of talking up someone else's book.
http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/5401/
Sorry in advance for the shameless self-promotion, but I figure folks into punk might want to know about it and others will just jump to another thread. My new book is out now in the US, Canada, and the UK. Underground: The Subterranean Culture of DIY Punk Spaces is about the emergence of a DIY punk touring network in the US. The book focuses on the development of local and regional DIY show promotion efforts in the early 1980s that ultimately transformed into a more sustainable national network in the 1990s. Since that time bands can tour the US, primarily playing shows in people's houses, volunteer-run community spaces, and a mix of other alternative locations (e.g., boxing gyms, the woods, stalled housing developments). They aren't making a lot of money and few become known outside the DIY punk circuit, but they are modeling an economic and social alternative to mainstream music industry practices and experiences.
I'm including a link to the publisher's site. If you write for a music publication and might be up for doing a review please send me a PM and I'll put you in touch with someone at the press. If you do a radio show or a podcast and might be interested in doing an interview, I would be up for it. Again, sorry about pushing my own stuff instead of talking up someone else's book.
http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/5401/
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