Introduction

The social study of time has been valuable in demonstrating how time “is socially produced, represented and organized” (Lahad, Singlehood, Waiting, and the Sociology of Time. Sociological Forum, 27, 2012, 164). To date there has been no plotting, so to speak, of punk scholarship which speaks to ‘time’ yet there are some clear bodies of work pertaining to particular issues relevant to it including, ageing and/or the life course and punk (e.g. Andes, Growing up Punk: Meaning and Commitment Careers in a Contemporary Youth Subculture. In J. S. Epstein (Ed.), Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1998; Bennett, Punk’s Not Dead: The Continuing Significance of Punk Rock for an Older Generation of Fans. Sociology, 40(2), 219–235, 2006, Music, Style and Aging. Growing Old Disgracefully? Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013; Grimes, ‘Life We Make’: Identity, Memory and British Anarcho-Punk. PhD thesis, Birmingham City University, UK, 2020; Way, ‘I don’t go to the gigs to go to the gigs—I don’t give a shit about the gigs!’: Exploring Gig Attendance and Older Punk Women. Punk & Post-Punk, 8(2), 257–269, 2019, Punk, Gender and Ageing. Just Typical Girls? Emerald, 2020, 2021); memory and/or nostalgia and punk (e.g. Adams, The Englishness of English Punk: Sex Pistols, Subcultures, and Nostalgia. Popular Music and Society, 31(4), 469–488, 2008; Arnold, Death in Vegas: Punk Rock and Nostalgia. In G. McKay & G. Arnold (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock. Oxford: University Press, 2022; McLoone, Punk Music in Northern Ireland: The Political Power of ‘what might have been’. Irish Studies Review, 12(1), 29–38, 2004); ‘punk history’ (e.g. Glasper, Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980–1984. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2014, The Scene That Would Not Die: Twenty Years of Post-Millennial Punk in the UK. Ticehurst: Earth Island Books, 2020; Reddington, The Lost Women of Rock Music. Female Musicians of the Punk Era. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007; Worley, Shot by Both Sides: Punk, Politics and the End of ‘Consensus’. Contemporary British History, 26(3), 333–354, 2012, No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017); and archiving and punk (e.g. Fraser & Haley, Building Punk Rock Collections at UCLA Library Special Collections. In N. Guthrie & S. Carlson (Eds.), Music Preservation and Archiving Today. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018; Liew & Williams, Looking Beyond Music: Curating and Narrating Punk Subculture in Singapore. In R. Bestley, M. Dines, P. Guerra, & A. Gordon (Eds.), Trans-Global Punk Scenes. The Punk Reader Volume 2. Bristol: Intellect, 2012; Bérubé-Sasseville, Bone in the Throat. Video Archiving and Identity Building within the Montreal Hardcore Scene. Punk & Post-Punk, 11(1), 71–85, 2022; Nguyen, Minor Threats. Radical History Review, 122, 11–24, 2015; Fife, Not for You? Ethical Implications of Archiving Zines. Punk & Post-Punk, 8(2), 227–242, 2019). Punk, Ageing and Time is therefore a timely (pun intended) collection covering areas such as punk and ageing; the relationship between temporality and particular concepts relevant to punk (such as authenticity, DIY, identity, resistance, spatiality and style); and punk memory, remembering and/or forgetting.