ampampquotAll that is solid melts into air all that is holy is profaned and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.ampampquotampampamp9Karl Marx might have been thinking of punk rock when he wrote these words in 1847 but he overlooked the possibility that new forms of solidity and holiness could spring into existence overnight.Punk rock was a celebration of nastiness chaos and defiance of convention which quickly transcended itself and developed its own orthodoxies shibboleths heresies and sectarian wars.ampampamp9Is punk still alive today What has it left us with Does punk make any artistic sense Is punk inherently anarchist sexist neoNazi Christian orperish the thoughtampampamp8212Marxist When alls said and done does punk simply suckampampamp9These obvious questions only scratch the surface of punkampampamp8217s philosophical ramifications explored in depth in this unprecedented and thoroughly nauseating volume.ampampamp9Thirtytwo professional thinkersforaliving and students of rock turn their xray eyes on this exciting and frequently disgusting topic and penetrate to punkampampamp8217s essence or perhaps they end up demonstrating that it has no essence.