Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Readers interested in hardcore music and its broader impact in the punk subculture (especially where it intersects with race, class, and gender) will appreciate the strong academic analysis." --
Library Journal "The volumes of archival data, interviews, and narratives, researched and recorded with academic acumen, make
Politics As Sound a unique addition to the American rock music canon." --
Project CensoredTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 DC Rising: The (Musical) Life and Times of Washington, DC 15
PART I: THE MUSIC OF DC HARDCORE
2 The Racial Aesthetics of DC Hardcore 45
3 The Sounds of Stratification: Socioeconomic Class and DC Hardcore 70
4 Masculinity as Music: DC Hardcore and the Implications of Gender 97
PART II: THE DC HARDCORE SCENE
5 Do-It-Yourself Cultural Production 133
6 Straightedge: A (White, Male, Middle-Classed) Music-Based Social Movement 156
7 Embodying (White, Middle-Class) Masculinity 178
8 The Transformation of Hardcore: DC Post-Hardcore, Post-1983 199
Discography 237
Notes 239
Index 261
