By Robert T. Wood
Drawing on interviews with founding participants and present straightedge early life, content material research of the tune lyrics, and straightedge "zines," wooden locations the flow in the context of latest subcultural conception and the framework of cultural reviews.
Identifying straightedge as a stream whose cultural limitations have reworked over the years, wooden explores the ways that the crowd contributors' diversified and infrequently contradictory self-understanding has contributed to the movement's evolution. wooden info the complexities of the lifestyle from its origins in Washington, D.C., throughout the emergence of schismatic straightedge factions and the adoption of animal rights and vegetarian agendas. This ebook deals a good advent for these attracted to the sociology of punk rock and its subcultures and may be a useful source for sociologists and straightedge adherents.
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