We’re back….with Season 2 marking the beginning of the SECOND YEAR of the Punk Scholars Podcast. And, who better to ring in the new PSP year than OG (or, OP/original punk) co-host, Paul Hollins, to help break down all things punk scholarship with our special guest, an original member of the PSN US crew–Daniel Makagon. In this episode, we–Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins–take turns asking Daniel about all things DIY, ethnography, house shows v. venues, Lollapalooza U (tune in and find out what that course offering entails), college radio, and the key to the mystery of what Daniel believes defines the core of punk (for him, at least)...here’s a couple clues - it’s not experimental fashion or radical art…
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Guest Bio.
Daniel Makagon received his PhD from the University of South Florida. Makagon's teaching and research interests are in urban communication, ethnography, documentary, and music industries (DIY and corporate). He is author of Underground: The Subterranean Culture of Punk House Shows (2015), Where the Ball Drops: Days and Nights in Times Square (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and co-author with Mark Neumann of Recording Culture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience (Sage, 2008). Makagon has also published articles about guerrilla art, DIY punk touring, community, and urban life in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Punk & Post Punk, Southern Communication Journal, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Text & Performance Quarterly. He is editor of a special issue of Liminalities, on \"On the City\", and co-editor with Michael LeVan of a special issue of Text & Performance Quarterly on the seven deadly sins. His audio documentaries have been broadcast on public radio and the internet, and he publishes a (mostly) monthly column with Razorcake magazine. Prior to becoming a professor, Makagon worked as a radio and retail promoter and then as an A&R representative in the music industry.
Links
dmakagon@depaul.edu
Instagram @danielmakagon
https://razorcake.org/tag/daniel-makagon/
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We’d love to hear from you and are soliciting episode ideas and guests. Contact us at: punkscholarspodcast@gmail.com
The PSP theme music is excerpted from “Crows” by Watch You Drown. All rights reserved.
Season 2, Episode 1, was recorded on June 13, 2025, on Zoom with participants in the UK and the US. Paul Hollins and Jessica Schwartz co-hosted and co-produced this episode and edited the transcript, which is available HERE.
Jessica Schwartz also edited the audio.
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