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How does Punk music and subculture relate to medicine or psychology? How did it influence and was influenced by economy and entrepreneurship? How does it relate to the human sciences, sociology and the arts? The answers to these questions require investing many hours for thorough research of Punk music and subculture.

Vasileios Yfantis spent many hours looking for music publications and could not find them in local libraries or bookstores. The choices were travelling or Googling, both requiring a lot of time and financial resources. This is exactly the problem that his recent book is aiming to solve.

“Punk Goes Science: The Academic Punk Bibliography” is a book which features the academic bibliography of Punk divided into six different research areas (Economics, Medicine, Business, Psychology, Art, Sociology) in order to help the reader adopt a holistic perspective of Punk. The book covers the bibliography of academic/scientific publications (books, book chapters and conference papers) of the past thirty years. It will be available for reading at the official library of the world famous institute The Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame Museum.

It can be an important guide for students and independent scholars that want to write about Punk but don’t know where to start from. Instead of wasting hours on the internet, this book can be used as a guide for a literature review.

Vasileios Yfantis has been working in the music industry for more than 15 years as a freelance music journalist. He is currently a researcher at the Ionian University in Greece and Lulea University of Technology in Sweden. Vasileios has presented conference papers in Europe and Africa. His main research interests include: Musicology, Marketing, Information Communications Technology and Digital Entertainment Industry.