Dr Mike Dines

Mike Dines is a British musician,writer, scholar and publisher. He founded Itchy Monkey Press with thepublication of the anarcho-punk novella thedarkening light (2014), followed by TalesFrom the Punkside (2014), Some of UsScream, Some of Us Shout (2016), and AndAll Around Was Darkness (2017) withGreg Bull. As a scholar he has written widely on subcultures and popular music,co-editing The Aesthetics of Our Anger:Anarcho-Punk, Politics, Music (Autonomedia/Minor Compositions, 2016), Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture and Learning(Routledge, 2017), The Punk Reader: ResearchTransmissions from the Local and the Global (Intellect, 2019), Punk Now!! Contemporary Perspectives on Punk(Intellect, 2020), and Trans-GlobalPunk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol. 2 (Intellect, 2020). His chapter, ‘ArtSchool Manifestos, Classical Music, and Industrial Abjection: Tracing theArtistic, Political, and Musical Antecedents of Punk’ has been recentlypublished in The Oxford Handbook of PunkRock (2020). His current writing takes him in the direction of punk andspirituality with the co-edited collection Exploringthe Spiritual in Popular Music: Beatified Beats (Bloomsbury, 2021). He iscurrently Programme Leader for BA (Hon) Music at Middlesex University and anavid supporter of Portsmouth Football Club.