ISBN:
1306998409
,
9783839421222
,
9781306998406
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Kultur- und Medientheorie
Parallel Title:
Print version Grinding California : Culture and Corporeality in American Skate Punk
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Punk culture -- California, Southern
;
Punk rock music
;
Skateboarding -- California, Southern
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
»Grinding California« provides the first academic analysis of the subculture of skate punk at book-length. It establishes highly critical evaluations of the discourses that influenced early skateboarding and punk cultures. Based on an examination of songs, flyers, magazines, and videos, Konstantin Butz revisits American popular cultures of the 1980s and approaches them from a variety of theoretical and methodological angles. He introduces contemplations of the rebellious potential that can be located within skate punk's material and corporeal contestations of the site-specific locale of suburb
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover Grinding California; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: "Let's skate!"; A Brief Note on Subcultures; 1 CONTEXT; 1.1 The Body and Interlocking Expressions; 1.1.1 Lived Bodies: Movement, Forces, and Politics; 1.1.2 Body, Postmodernism, and Capitalism; 1.1.3 An Intersectional Access: Approaching Skate Punk; 1.2 The Context; 1.2.1 The USA of the 1980s; 1.2.2 The Middle Class and Intersections with Race and Gender; "The Myth of the Middle Class"; Race and Class; Masculinity and Whiteness; 1.2.3 Suburbia; Suburbia and Utopia; Postsuburbia
Description / Table of Contents:
The (Post-) Suburban Home and the Tax Payers' RevoltCultural Vacuum in a Consumption-Oriented Landscape; 1.2.4 Skateboarding; Three Paradigms in Skateboard History; Surfing: From Ancient Hawaii to Suburban California; Dogtown: Surf and Skate Rebellion; After Dogtown: Skateboarding in the 1980s; 1.2.5 Punk and Hardcore Punk; The 1980s as a Starting Point for Hardcore Punk; Hardcore Punk and the Suburban Middle Class; Race and Whiteness within Hardcore Punk Culture; Masculinity in Hardcore Punk; 1.3 Conclusion; 2 CONTENT; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 On Skate Punk
Description / Table of Contents:
2.1.2 Skate Punk and Popular Culture2.2 Skate and Hardcore Punk Lyrics in their Cultural Context: Between Banality and Blankness; 2.2.1 Song Lyrics in a Postmodern Dialog; Space: Suburban Homes and Local Beaches; Class: Home Is Where?; Race: "White Minority" as a Subject Position in Hardcore Punk; Gender: Bored Boys and Skate Punk Lyrics; 2.2.2 Conclusion: Beyond the Lyrics; 2.3 Flyers: Skate Punk Art and Scribbled Handbills; 2.3.1 Copied in Seconds; 2.3.2 Flyer Genealogies: Historical Traces; 2.3.3 Skulls, Skeletons, and the Bomb: Skate Punk Flyers in their Cultural Context
Description / Table of Contents:
2.3.4 Conclusion: Flying Matters - The Material Component of Skate Punk Flyers2.4 Thrasher: Skate Punk in Magazines; 2.4.1 A Magazine with "Hardcore Spirit"; 2.4.2 The First Issues: Radical Images and Skate Punk Fiction; 2.4.3 Pools and Nightmares; 2.4.4 Hegemonic Masculinity: Bikinis, Betties, and Wild Riders of Boards; Bikinis and Betties; Wild Riders of Boards; 2.4.5 Conclusion: Established Patterns with a Hardcore Surface; 2.5 Skate Punk Videos; 2.5.1 Video (R)evolution; 2.5.2 Skate Video Narratives: Old Tropes and a New Medium; Streets on Fire; Possessed to Skate
Description / Table of Contents:
2.5.3 Conclusion: Moving On2.6 Conclusion; 3 CORPOREALITY; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Approaching the Concrete; 3.3 Producing Presence through Skateboarding and Hardcore Punk; 3.3.1 Adding "Volume"; 3.3.2 Falling and Slamming; 3.3.3 Producing a Suburban Seascape; 3.3.4 Speeding Through Suburbia; 3.3.5 The Grind of the Voice; 3.4 Getting Closer; 3.4.1 "Adrenaline Aesthetics" and the Reduction of Distance; 3.4.2 Molecular Revolution; 3.5 Conclusion: Grinding on the Most Tenuous Borders of Discourse; CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK: It's All About Access; WORKS CITED; Books, Essays, Articles, Commentary
Description / Table of Contents:
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