Biography
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, 鈥楢rtSchool Manifestos, Classical Music, and Industrial Abjection: Tracing theArtistic, Political, and Musical Antecedents of Punk鈥� 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 探花社区 University and anavid supporter of Portsmouth Football Club.
