Beyond The Music: How Punks are Saving the World with DIY Ethics, Skills, & Values
Author(s): Joe Biel (Author)
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
Publication Date: 13 Dec. 2012
Language: English
Print length: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 1621064727
ISBN-13: 9781621064725
Book Description
Punk is notorious for its loud music, aggressive attitude and safety pinned style. Less well known is the radical value system that has emerged hand in hand with the sound and aesthetic. Since the 1970s, punks have built their music, fashion and lifestyles around core values of social justice, creative freedom, community integrity, fiercely democratic politics and DIY ingenuity. From journalism to psychology, graphic design to the Occupy movement, these interviews with long standing stalwarts of the punk movement show just some of the ways punk has shaped mainstream life.
Editorial Reviews
Review
After reading this book, one feels an incredible urge to go out there and pursue that one project you’ve always thought you’d be good at. After all, that’s what punk rock is about. – Ground Control Magazine
Like a long car ride with your Uncle Hank. – Willamette Week
A whole smattering of punks from vegan chefs (Joshua Ploeg) to polarizing pundits (Ben Weasel) are given a forum to relate their stories and philosophies. Some may be unfamiliar to you, some may be household names in your home, but there’s something to glean from all of them, be it inspirational and/or informational. – Reglar Wiglar
Interviewing an actress, bicyclist, Catholic Worker, chef, chocolatier, Cuban-American fan of Green Day, Fulbright Scholar working for Cambodia, a psychologist specializing in males, and lots of graphic designers, printers, and publishers, Joe Biel reveals the range of those who use the mechanisms of punk’s self-motivated and communally based ethos to change our world by action. – Pop Matters
About the Author
Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. Biel is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing, Publishers Weekly’s #1 fastest-growing publisher of 2022 and #3 in 2023. Biel has been featured in Time Magazine, Esquire, Art of Autism, Reading Glasses, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll, as well as on NPR and PBS. Biel is the author of A People’s Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business, Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business with Autism, and dozens more. Biel is the director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, including Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland, $100 & a T-Shirt, and the Groundswell film series. Biel lives in Portland, OR. Find out more at joebiel.net.
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