Add to ORKGIn 1978, hardcore punk rock band Black Flag made their recorded debut with the EP Nervous Breakdown. Over the next eight years, until their breakup in 1986, they recorded six full-length albums and multiple singles and EPs, founded the record label SST, and established a touring circuit for underground rock bands that is still being followed today. Since their debut, the music of Black Flag and many of their hardcore punk peers has been criticized for its racial politics. This essay argues that while Black Flag did parody the rhetoric of racism in at least one song, this provocation masked a deeper musical dialogue on the topic of race that was occurring between Black Flag’s members, who were of black, white, Latino, and Jewish descent. Fol...
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White extremism in the U.S. has not received much attention in the literature, despite scholars argu...
Embedded in the transatlantic history of rock ‘n’ roll, punk rock has not only been regarded as a wa...
In the late 1980s, the punk scene in the United States was plagued by Nazi skinheads, the macho viol...
This paper explores the presence of White Supremacists, racists and neo-Nazis within the genres and ...
At the end of the 1970s a racist rock music movement known as White Power music emerged in Great Bri...
This dissertation traces the history of punk rock and the birth and progression of the “punk ethos,”...
This thesis provides a critical study of African Americans in punk rock. It highlights the music and...
At the end of the 1970s a racist rock music movement known as White Power music emerged in Great Bri...
The main question of this dissertation is to consider why black metal in particular has become and r...
In recent years, scholars have begun to attend to the gap in our understanding of the relationship b...
During the creative and influential years between 1979 and 1983, hardcore punk was not only born -- ...
In recent years, scholars have begun to attend to the gap in our understanding of the relationship b...
In “Contorting the Color Line: Race in New York City Underground Music and Culture, 1978-1981,” I us...
Historically speaking, metal music has always been about provoking a strong reaction. Depending on t...
Abstract: While ‘tragic’ protest and protest songs are normally conceived of as originating on the p...
White extremism in the U.S. has not received much attention in the literature, despite scholars argu...
Embedded in the transatlantic history of rock ‘n’ roll, punk rock has not only been regarded as a wa...
In the late 1980s, the punk scene in the United States was plagued by Nazi skinheads, the macho viol...
This paper explores the presence of White Supremacists, racists and neo-Nazis within the genres and ...
At the end of the 1970s a racist rock music movement known as White Power music emerged in Great Bri...
This dissertation traces the history of punk rock and the birth and progression of the “punk ethos,”...
This thesis provides a critical study of African Americans in punk rock. It highlights the music and...
At the end of the 1970s a racist rock music movement known as White Power music emerged in Great Bri...
The main question of this dissertation is to consider why black metal in particular has become and r...
In recent years, scholars have begun to attend to the gap in our understanding of the relationship b...
During the creative and influential years between 1979 and 1983, hardcore punk was not only born -- ...
In recent years, scholars have begun to attend to the gap in our understanding of the relationship b...
In “Contorting the Color Line: Race in New York City Underground Music and Culture, 1978-1981,” I us...
Historically speaking, metal music has always been about provoking a strong reaction. Depending on t...
Abstract: While ‘tragic’ protest and protest songs are normally conceived of as originating on the p...
White extremism in the U.S. has not received much attention in the literature, despite scholars argu...