The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global

Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair Gordon and Paula Guerra (eds.): The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global, published by Intellect Books and The University of Chicago Press, August 2019. Edited by Bestley, Dines, Gordon and Guerra, designed by Russ Bestley.

A first edition of this book was originally produced as a very short run proof print via the University of Porto, Portugal, in conjunction with KISMIF and the Punk Scholars Network. At that stage, the original named editors were Dines, Gordon and Guerra and Russ Bestley worked as graphic designer to pull the project together and create a final book layout. Bestley was also heavily involved in editing and proofing the various stages of the book through to printing. played a major part in not just the visual outcome of that content but also the editing (arranging and selecting material, text editing and visual editing), acting as more than simply someone who makes a graphic ‘product’ and in more of a consultancy role on how best to present the content to its audience.

Russ Bestley then represented the editors and the Punk Scholars Network in negotiations to rework the book as a new title through Intellect Books and The University of Chicago Press, with a new ISBN and some text/layout changes. This is the first volume in a contracted book series entitled Global Punk. Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair “Gords” Gordon and Paula Guerra are named series editors for Global Punk and Bestley has been added as co-editor for this (public) issue of The Punk Reader, with text and layout revisions and a new ISBN publication number.