Punk Inquiry and Study Site (PISS)

Punk Art coming soon

Check out the spanking new entries in Forum Responses and the Regionalism page, with new comments from Japan.

This site provides a resource for the investigation of punk as a social and cultural phenomenon. Punk continues to generate interest in the popular press, music industry, and scholarship, among other forums. Materials presented here are a collaboration and contributors are credited on the individual sections and pages where they have generated content.

What is punk? This vexing question presents its own irony. Some would say that punk is only the most nihilistic and anarchic disregard for anything stable and respectable, even going so far as to eschew human life. Thus, is true punk only a crazed and wasted Iggy Pop rolling in broken bottles, or the unapologetic and ruthless self-desruction of Darby Crash or Sid Viscious? If this were the case, these musicians would be too nihilistic (or too long dead) to give a shit what anyone thought was punk. The whole pursuit of a definitive definition of punk is, then, a decidedly un-punk proposition. But let's face it, an Internet punk resource page ain't particularly punk either, but that doesn't mean it can't be a fun and useful site for those who enjoy thinking about and participating in punk culture.

Anyone with something to say is invited to respond to the forum, or make other contributions by contacting the webmaster, Michael Filas, who administers this site at Westfield State College in Massachusetts. (Note: the image above is from a Germs biography site.) - MF

PUNK INQUIRY & STUDY SITE (PISS)

`PUNK INQUIRY & STUDY SITE (PISS)`