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NOFX : Forty Years of "Problematic" Punk Provocations - David Pearson

NOFX

Forty Years of "Problematic" Punk Provocations

By: David Pearson (Editor), Stefano Morello (Editor), Ellen Bernhard (Editor)

Hardcover | 10 July 2025

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This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum.

For forty years, NOFX's brand of witty, offensive, humorous, juvenile, intelligent, existential, political, anti-PC, and/or philosophically probing punk has reared several generations in punk attitude and ethos, for better or worse. They pioneered melodic yet hardcore So-Cal punk style, rode the wave of mainstream punk popularity in the 1990s, protested the Bush administration in the 2000s, and had continued their punk provocations up through their retirement in 2024.

NOFX's aesthetics of provocation and discomfort force us to think about the positive value and problems caused by a longstanding attitude within punk, namely the disposition towards shocking and offending mainstream society. Their music challenges notions of punk as simplistic, stripped-down rock requiring little musical skill, as the band has incorporated virtuosic guitar and bass playing, an array of chords and harmonic approaches, borrowings from various musical styles, and song structures of considerable complexity, broadening punk's expressive possibilities in the process. This book explores these and other contentious topics from scholars in a variety of fields.

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