Mike Dines

Mike Dines is a British musician, writer, scholar and publisher. He founded Itchy Monkey Press (http://itchymonkeypress.com) with the publication of the anarcho-punk novella the darkening light (2014), followed by Tales From the Punkside (2014), Some of Us Scream, Some of Us Shout (2016) and And All Around Was Darkness (2017) with Greg 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: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global (Intellect, 2019), Punk Now!! Contemporary Perspectives on Punk (Intellect, 2020), Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol. 2 (Intellect, 2020) and Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media (Intellect, 2021). His current writing takes him in the direction of punk and spirituality with the co-edited collection Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music: Beatified Beats (Bloomsbury, 2021). He also has chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Global Popular Music (2020) and The Oxford Handbook of Punk (2020). He is also lead editor on the ground-breaking Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies, due for publication in 2025. He is currently Programme Leader of BA (Hons) Music at Middlesex University and is an avid supporter of Portsmouth Football Club. Further information can be found at https://mdx.academia.edu/MikeDines. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9706-979X