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We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America

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We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America - Mattson, Kevin
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Kevin Mattson offers a history of punk rock in the 1980s. He documents how kids growing up in the sedate world of suburbia created their "own culture" through DIY tactics. Punk spread across the continent in the 1980s as it found expression in different media, including literature, art, and poetry. Punks dissented against Reagan's presidency, accusing the entertainer-in-chief of being mean and duplicitous (especially when it came to nuclear war and his policies in Central America). Mattson has dived deep into archives to ...

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We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America 2020, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190908232

Hardcover