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Fast, Furious and Xerox: Punk, Fanzines and Diy Cultures in a Global World

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Punk, Fanzines and DIY Cultures in a Global World

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This chapter introduces the book and focuses on defining the essence and substance of fanzines as independent and ‘alternative’ publications. What are fanzines? At the risk of reducing such complex objects to a few lines, we can say that they are homemade craft objects, produced individually or collectively, and that, in general, they have limited circulation. But if circulation is limited, the scope of the topics addressed in this medium of communication is not. As we shall see throughout this book, there are as many themes as there are zinesters—limited only by each author’s imagination. Thus our main objective is to take a theoretical, chronological and thematic journey around the fanzines, considering their contemporary polyhedral vitality.

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Notes

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    Rude language in punk cannot, and should not, be understood as a simple provocation, but as ‘a deliberately rude violation of aesthetic and social norms’ (James, 1989: 35).

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    Priscila L. Farias (1998) addresses the fact that these misspellings are not being understood as negative. Furthermore, in some cases the author refers even to the occurrence of simulated errors.

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    For a critical discussion on the origins, evolution and the legacy of the swastika as a graphic and political symbol, see for example, Nooney (2006).

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    Paula Guerra

  2. University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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Guerra, P., Quintela, P. (2020). Fast, Furious and Xerox: Punk, Fanzines and Diy Cultures in a Global World. In: Guerra, P., Quintela, P. (eds) Punk, Fanzines and DIY Cultures in a Global World. Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28876-1_1

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