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Straight edge : clean-living youth, hardcore punk, and social change /
Straight edge is a clean-living youth movement that emerged from the punk rock subculture in the early 1980s. Its basic tenets promote a drug-free, tobacco-free, and sexually responsible lifestyle-tenets that, on the surface, seem counter to those typical of teenage rebellion. For many straight-edge...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Straight edge is a clean-living youth movement that emerged from the punk rock subculture in the early 1980s. Its basic tenets promote a drug-free, tobacco-free, and sexually responsible lifestyle-tenets that, on the surface, seem counter to those typical of teenage rebellion. For many straight-edge kids, however, being clean and sober was (and still is) the ultimate expression of resistance-resistance to the consumerist and self-indulgent ethos that defines mainstream U.S. culture. In this first in-depth sociological analysis of the movement, Ross Haenfler follows the lives of dozens of strai. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813539911 0813539919 0813538513 9780813538518 0813538521 9780813538525 9786610947027 6610947023 |