Straight edge : clean-living youth, hardcore punk, and social change /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Haenfler, Ross (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Youth > United States.
Straight-edge culture.
Subculture > United States.
Straight-edge (Music) > United States.
Hardcore (Music) > United States.
Punk culture > United States.
Jeunesse > États-Unis.
Straight-edge (Subculture) > États-Unis.
Subculture > États-Unis.
Straight-edge (Musique) > États-Unis.
Hardcore (Musique) > États-Unis.
Punk (Mouvement) > États-Unis.
Straight-edge (Subculture)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Hardcore (Music)
Punk culture
Straight-edge culture
Straight-edge (Music)
Subculture
Youth
Hardcore
Jugendkultur
Subkultur
Gruppenidentität
United States
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Straight edge 101
  • Straight edge core values
  • Straight edge as a social movement
  • Positivity versus militancy : struggles within the scene
  • Masculinity in contradiction : the two faces of straight edge
  • Girls united and divided : women in straight edge
  • Life after subculture : how older straight edgers redefine commitment
  • Commercialization, the Internet, and the cultic milieu
  • Conclusions
  • A timeline of straight edge bands.

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