record labels, haute couture, and the mass media have attempted to use punk for profit. For the most part, punk has met this cultural appropriation with resistance because of the punk ethic of musical integrity which punks often feel is threatened by profit motivation. Many members of the original punk subculture, as well as some of the modern adherents, find the commercialization of punk disillusioning. They argue that punk is by definition unpopular (seeing "pop punk" as a contradiction in terms) and should remain that way because it provides a needed challenge to mainstream culture.
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- Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
- Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs, ISBN 0679720456
- American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush
- The Boy Looked At Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and Roll by Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons, 1978, Pluto Press, UK, ISBN 0861040309X
- Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution by Stephen Colegrave
- Burning Britain - A History Of UK Punk 1980 to 1984 by Ian Glasper, Cherry Red Books, ISBN 1901447243
- A Punk Manifesto by Greg Graffin, Bad Times, 12/98
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- Subculture: The Meaning of Style D. Hebdige, ISBN 0415039495
- From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World by Clinton Heylin, Penguin Books, ISBN 0140179704
- From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock by Clinton Heylin
- Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, 1997, Penguin Books, ISBN 0140266909
- The Philosophy of Punk by Craig O'Hara
- Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk by Roger Sabin
- England's Dreaming : Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond by Jon Savage, 1991, Faber and Faber, UK, ISBN 0312069634
- We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker.
- Make The Music Go Bang!: The Early L.A. Punk Scene by Don Snowden
- We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk by Marc Spitz
- MaximumRocknRoll The flagship zine of the punk subculture.
- Punk Planet Online A popular zine which covers the culture and community of punk.
- Punk Magazine A zine largely responsible for forming the American punk scene.
- Punk Zine Russian punk zine.
- The Death and Life of Punk, the Last Subculture An essay about the history of punk.
- A History of Punk
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