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Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics

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Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics - Kuhn, Gabriel (Editor)
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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 1980s 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 conservative Puritanism. On the ...

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Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics 2010, PM Press

ISBN-13: 9781604860511

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