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Author Hannon, Sharon M.

Title Punks : a guide to an American subculture / Sharon M. Hannon
Published Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 181 pages) : illustrations
Series Guides to subcultures and countercultures
Guides to subcultures and countercultures.
Contents What is punk? -- Punk rock -- Gathering places: fanzines, performance spaces, radio stations, and record stores -- Punk fashion and art -- Women in punk -- Punk in the media: newspapers, television, and movies -- Punk in the new century
Summary "In the 1950s it was the beats. In the 1960s it was the hippies. In the 1970s it was the punks, the next utterly unique, music-fueled subculture to reject the world set out before them - with a vengeance - and in so doing, change that world in unforgettable, unpredictable ways. Unlike other volumes on the punk era that focus on just the music - and primarily on British punk bands - Punks: A Guide to an American Subculture spans the full expanse of punk as it happened in the United States, from the late-1960s blast of Iggy Pop and the Stooges to the full explosion of punk in the mid 1970s to its next-generation resurgences and continuing aftershocks. Readers will see how punk spread virally, through fan-created magazines, record labels, clubs, and radio stations, as well as how mainstream America reacted, then absorbed aspects of punk culture. The book includes interviews with key members of the punk subculture, including new conversations with people who participated in the punk scene in the 1970s and 1980s."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-171) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Punk rock music -- Social aspects -- United States
Punk culture -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Punk culture
Gesellschaft
Punk Rock
Punk
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780313364570
0313364575