34th Annual Southwest Texas Popular and American Culture Conference

February 13-16, 2013 at Hyatt Regency Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Celebrating Popular/American Cultures in a Global Context. In keeping with this year’s theme of global context, we are particularly interested in papers that consider punk as a global phenomenon, but any paper dealing with punk and culture will be considered.

Punk is more than a mere musical styling; it’s a way of making sense of the world and one’s place in it. I am particularly interested in papers exploring punk’s political stances, the impact of location on the creation of punk in places such as 924 Gilman street, representations of punk in TV shows as varied as Punky Brewster and Criminal Minds, iconic film images of Punk such as Taxi Driver and Lisbeth Salander, Punk and globalization, punk as a global phenomenon in areas other than the US (Tokyo, Canada, Iran, Russia, etc.) and Punk rock today (Gogol Bordello and others). I am very interested in papers exploring Pussy Riot and the punk activism or Russia.

Punk and Philosophy
Punk and Politics
The Rhetoric of Punk
Punk in Film
Punk on TV
Punk in Comics
Punk and Fashion
Punk and Music
Punk and Literature
Punk and Activism
Punk precursors
Punk Places – “Support your local scene” (924 Gilman, CBGB, Mabuhay Gardens)
Post-Punk
Punk and Anarchism
Visual Punk
Jello Biafra’s bid for Mayor
Selling out
Punk Ethos
History of Punk
Punk Subculture
Queercore
Riot Grrrl
Straight Edge
Minor Labels vs. the Big 5
Punk and on-line file sharing

Post your Submission to our database at: conference2013.swtxpca.org

Deadlines for the 2013 conference are:
December 2, submission deadline
First week of January:
database open to view schedule

Send inquires to Bryan L. Jones Oklahoma State University bryan.l.jones@okstate.edu
Audio/Visual equipment available to all presenters, make arrangements in advance to show a film. Panel presentations will be considered. Grad Students should consider our contests. http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/48.html