Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics
by Gabriel Kuhn
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Examining the multigenerational impact of punk rock music, this international survey of the political-punk straight edge movement which has persisted as a drug-free, hardcore subculture for more than 25 years traces its history from 1980's Washington, DC, to today. Asserting that drugs are not necessarily rebellious and that not all rebels do them, the record also defies common conceptions of straight edge's political legacy as being associated with self-righteous, macho posturing and show more conservative Puritanism. On the contrary, the movement has been linked to... show lessTags
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Gabriel Kuhn is an Austrian-born writer and translator living in Sweden. His other books include Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics; Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark's Revolutionary Bank Robbers; Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture; show more Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics; X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety; and Liberating Spmi: Indigenous Resistance in Europe's Far North. show less
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Music, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
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- 322.40973 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science Relation of the state to organized groups and their members Political action groups Biography And History North America
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- HQ796 .S5595 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women The family. Marriage. Home Youth. Adolescents. Teenagers
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