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Zines as history

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posted on 2023-06-09, 05:51 authored by Lucy RobinsonLucy Robinson
This article acknowledges and contextualises the recent growth of interest in the history of zines and in zine production. Drawing on archival research on zines in the United States, Europe and across the UK it demonstrates that zine producers have themselves been key producers or historical knowledge and furthermore that contemporary political tensions, debates about the relationship between collective histories and icons, celebrities and role models, can be understood through the work of DIY zine producers. This piece argues that we can understand the history of ‘writing our own history’ differently if we move beyond the traditional stories of academic publication. It questions the relationship between individual icons (or key agents) in History and our collective identification with the past.

History

Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Page range

39-54

Book title

Ripped, torn and cut: pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976

Place of publication

UK

ISBN

9781526120618

Department affiliated with

  • History Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Keith Gildart, Bill Osgerby, Pete Webb, Sian Lincoln, John Street, Anna Gough-Yates, Lucy Robinson, Matthew Worley

Legacy Posted Date

2017-04-24

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