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SOC 206: Youth and Popular Culture, Lecture 6, 2010
Dr Colin Salter
http://colin.salter.id.au
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Outline
Introduce punk, straight edge & veganism
Concurrent themes & (potential) issues
Questions to reflect on
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the ultimate authenticity lies in political action...
(Clark 2003)
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Punk
Rejection of mainstream excesses
Embrace DIY
Rebellious & anti-establishment
Multiplicities of meanings.
Clark (2003) Punk had to die so it could live.
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Punk: Attitude (2005)
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The Hard Ons
"It's such a shit stir. I mean, calling a band, The Hard-Ons.When you think about a hard on you think of big machomen with bulging muscles and a big hard on between their
legs...
We're not a macho band. We like taking the piss out ofmacho people.
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Male Centric?
Godmother of Punk
Riot grrrl
Reactionary re-assertionof masculinity (Clark 2004)
image source: wikimedia commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Patti_Smith_performing_at_TIM_Festival,_Marina_da_Gloria,_Rio_De_Janeiro_(4).jpg
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Straight Edge
image source: Body Modification Ezine http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A90731/high/i3ee-me-in-india.jpg
A reaction to the hedonism and self-destructionseen in punk:a counter-culture to the counter-culture
Central Tenet is the refrain from drug use.
Multiplicities of meanings.
The sex question...
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National Geographic (2007): Inside Straight Edge
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Straight Edge
The movements core values reflect [a] curious blend ofmiddle class conservative and progressive influences.(Haenfler 2007: 10).
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I guess the movement had sort of started, but in my mind Iwasnt interested in it being a movement.
It ran conversely to my initial idea that it was a concert ofindividuals, as opposed to a movement.
text source: Ian Mackaye, reproduced in Haenfler (2007)
Were just a Minor Threat
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Straight Edge trends
Old School
Youth Crew
Posicore
The militant or hardline turn(New School or Metalcore)
image source: Cybele Malonowskis Flckr photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/cybele_malinowski/2282705579/audio: excerpt from Gomorrahs Seas Ends, Earth Crisis, Gomorrahs Seas Ends, 1996
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...all must be given the same right to live free fromenslavement, torture, and pain. To separate and give this right
only to an animal in a vivisectors lab or a slaughterhouseand not to a growing fetus is inconsistent.
CD liner notes (behind disc). Earth Crisis, All Out War, 1992
Earth Crisis
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By oppressing innocent life you've lost your rights so nowyour end is justified. There will be no compromise, no more
negotiating. If you refuse to change, then you're guilty andmust be destroyed.Lyrics, Stand by, Earth Crisis, All Out War, 1992
Earth Crisis
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firestorm to purify the bane that society drowns in. No
mercy, no exceptions, a declaration of total war.
Earth Crisis
Lyrics, Firestorm, Earth Crisis, Firestorm, 1993
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Male Centric?
The Female Edge
Straight Edge Sisterhoodhttp://www.xsisterhoodx.com/
Reactionary re-assertionof masculinity?
image: Eva Genie, Gather http://www.myspace.com/gatheraudio: excerpt from Glimpses of Hope, Gahter, Beyond the Ruins, 2007.
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Hardcore Pit, Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXAlIdTDtRM
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We call people on their shit and hold them accountable for
what they do.
Earth Crisis
Dennis Merrick, Earth Crisis, in Gollner (2000)
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Propagandhi
Tell you what Ill call you on your shit, PLEASE CALL ME
ON MINE. Then we can grow together and make this shit-hole planet better in time.Lyrics, Apparently, Im A P.C. Fascist, Propaghandi, Less Talk, More Rock, 1999
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Propagandhi
Is this all there is? Maybe we really have nothing to say.Maybe we truly are just shallow and lame and were all justwaiting for the end, the spectacle, or some kind ofcatastrophe to bring us back to earth to stun our evernodding heads.
Lyrics, Life at Disconnect, Propaghandi, Potemkin City Limits, 2005
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Veganism
text source: The Vegan Society (UK) http://www.vegansociety.com/about/who-we-are.aspx
Veganism is a way of living that seeks to exclude, as far
as possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of,and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing and any otherpurpose.
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Earthlings
Considered the most persuasive documentary ever made.
Nicknamed the Vegan maker for its sensitive footage shot at
animal shelters, pet stores, puppy mills, factory farms,slaughterhouses, the leather and fur trades, sporting events, circusesand research labs.
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Veganism
Critique of the mainstream... an enactment
of punk (Clark 2004: 25)
Multiplicities of meanings?
Lifestyle or movement v identity politics?
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Veganism
Non-punk vegans, in contrast, constructedidiosyncratic, personal definitions of veganism.
In doing so, they maintained the vegan identity...
Cherry (2006:160)
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Individual and collective meanings of identity
Individual and collective meanings of resistance
multiplicities of transgression
Embedded in social processes?
Closing reflections
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Movements?
Scenes?
Either/neither?
Both?
Closing reflections
image: http://www.dragonsofasshat.org/images/funny/scenester.jpg
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Further ReadingElizabeth Cherry (2006), Veganism as a Cultural Movement: A Relational Approach,
Social Movement Studies, vol. 5, no. 2: 155-170.
Dylan Clark (2003), The Death and Life of Punk, the Last Subculture, in DavidMuggleton & Rupert Weinzierl (ed.), The Post-Subcultures Reader, Berg, NY.
Dylan Clark (2004), The Raw and the Rotten: Punk Cuisine, Ethnologyvol. 43, no. 1:19-31.
Earthlings (2008), film, Nation Earth.
Adam Gollner (2000), Drug-free politic: Dennis Merrick of Earth Crisis on his
unhippie ways,Montreal Mirror, January 27.
Ross Haenfler (2007), Straight Edge: Clean living youth, hardcore punk and social change ,Rutgers University Press, NJ.
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Further Readingunknown, Hardcore Pit, Youtube, accessed 31 March 2010.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXAlIdTDtRM
Lauraine Leblanc (1999), Pretty in Punk: Girls gender resistance in a boys subculture ,Rutgers University Press, NJ
Brittany Menodza (2008), Women in Hardcore...according to Miles Away, SovereignStrength, and Blood Stands Still,xsisterhoodx, accessed 31 March 2010.http://www.xsisterhoodx.com/feminism/women-in-hardcore...according-to-miles-away-sovereign-strength-and-
blood-stands-still.html
David Muggleton & Rupert Weinzierl, Ed. (2003) The Post-Subcultures Reader, Berg, NY.
Propagandhi Official website.
http://propagandhi.com
Punk Attitude (2005), film, Capitol Entertainment.
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Further Readingunknown, Punk Documentary 1976 (Part 1), Youtube, accessed 31 March 2010.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Pdv4EpYfk
Maureen C. Wyse (2005), What are we fighting for? 90s vegan hardcoreback with
a vengeance, Satya, accessed 31 March 2010.http://www.satyamag.com/may05/wyse.html
Songs featured:Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer (De), by Patti Smith, from Horses,1975
Anarchy in the UK, by the Sex Pistols, from Never Mind the Bollocks, Heres the SexPistols, 1977
Gomorrahs Seas Ends, by Earth Crisis, from Gomorrahs Seas Ends, 1996
Glimpses of Hope, by Gather, from Beyond the Ruins, 2007.