Screaming for Change Articulating a Unifying Philosophy of Punk Rock

Screaming for Change advances an understanding of punk rock by going beyond the traditional description of punk as a musical, political, social, and cultural genre of communication. Previous scholarship about punk rock has dealt primarily with those boundaries of genre. Past scholars have neglected to examine the ideology of punk across the decades and continents. That ideology, in a word, is deviance. Through Gramscian textual analysis, this book uncovers this ideology of deviance with some surprises along the way. Students and scholars of punk rock will value the book's attention to both well-known and more esoteric punk artists.

Lars J. Kristiansen is a communication PhD candidate at the University of Missouri. Joseph R. Blaney is associate professor of communication at Illinois State University and coauthor of The Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II. Philip J. Chidester is assistant professor of communication at Illinois State University. Brent K. Simonds is associate professor of communication at Illinois State University and coauthor of Communication as Critical Inquiry: Becoming Critical Producers and Consumers of Messages.