1. Introduction; Laura Way and Matt Grimes.- 2. Rejecting and Resisting Ageism: Female Perspectives of Ageing with Punk; Alison Willmott.- 3. Old Punks and Boring Vegans: Profiling Two Generations of Ageing Czech Punks; Ondrej Daniel.- 4. ‘I don’t care what you say about me’: Exploring the Construction of Family and Gig Attendance of Kids and Ageing Punk; Muhammad Fakhran al Ramadhan.- 5. ‘Punk may be dead but punks aren’t’: The Last ‘New’ Generation of Punks Working Together in an Effort to keep Punk’s Flame Alive in the Town of Xanthi; Chrysi Aikaterini Efthymiadou.- 6. ‘…And out come the comps’: Punk-O-Rama, Tony Hawk’s Pro-Skater Soundtracks, and their Roles as Peak Music Experiences in a Punk Identity; Ellen Bernhard.- 7. Punk Womxn: Negotiations of Professionalism, Maturation and Authenticity; Alyssa Schenk.- 8. Young Punk, Old Punk, Running Punk: Keeping the Old Ones Cool and the Young Ones Fresh; Chris Inglis and Ashley Morgan.- 9. Live Fast Die Old: Experiences of Aging Among Portuguese Producers of DIY Music Scenes Since the Late 1970s; Paula Guerra.- 10. Punk, Spiritual Lives and the Serious Leisure Perspective; Ibrahim Abraham.- 11. 'I’m not someone who calls himself an anarchist, I am an anarchist': Anarcho-Punk Praxis and the Continuing Ideological Significance of British Anarcho-Punk in the Later Lives of its Ex-adherents; Matt Grimes.- 12. Enduring Attachments: On the Many Ages of Punk; George Grinnell.- 13. Memories of the Past, Inequalities of the Present: The Temporality of Subcultural Violence, Gender, and Authenticity; Matthew Newsom.- 14. Punk, Literature and Midlife Creativity: The Great Crossover Potential; Philip Miles.- 15. Generation Lost: Articulating Millennial Woe and Resisting the Occlusion of Punk Potentiality; Owen Morawitz.- 16. Exploring Older Punk Women’s Conceptualisation of ‘Punk’ Through Participant-Created ‘Zine Pages; Laura Way.- 17. Working With/In: An Exploration of Queer Punk Time and Space in Collaborative Archival Workshops; Kirsty Fife.
Laura Way is Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln, UK and is currently engaged in research projects with young fathers and local Travellers. Laura’s monograph – Punk, Gender and Ageing: Just Typical Girls (2020) – was the first to focus solely on the experiences of older punk women. She is a qualified teacher in lifelong learning and an experienced qualitative researcher, particularly in the areas of creative and participatory methods, and collaborative, community-based work. Laura is an editor of Sociological Research Online and sits on the editorial board for Punk & Post-Punk journal.
Matt Grimes is Senior Lecturer in Music Industries and Radio at Birmingham City University, UK. Matt’s doctorate explored ageing, identity and the ideological significance of anarchism in the life courses of ageing adherents of anarcho-punk. He is currently writing up this research for his forthcoming monograph with Palgrave Macmillan, Ageing, Identity, Memory and British Anarcho-Punk: 'Life We Make' (Palgrave Macmillan). He has published on the subjects of anarcho-punk, anarcho-punk ‘zines, punk pedagogy, popular music and spirituality, DIY/Underground music cultures/subcultures, counter-cultural movements, and radio for social change. He is the Punk Scholars Network’s general secretary and associate editor for Punk & Post-Punk journal. Matt is also a lifelong supporter of Millwall FC.
