Hardcore research: punk, practice, politics

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Changing Perspectives: From Participation to Observation (Autoethnography of a Punk Researcher) -- Milo Goes to College, Ellen Goes to Grad School: The Series of Events that Turned an Afterschool Hobby into a Hardcore Pursuit of Punk Rock -- A Network of Hardcore Researchers: Punk Studies, Punk Scholarship, Punk Pedagogy -- "Dancing on the Corpses' Ashes": On Post-Hardcore Performance and Erased Nonwhite Bodies -- Hardcore, Punk, and Academia: A Conversation between Brian Cogan and Kevin Dunn -- "Survival of the Streets": Krishna Consciousness and Religion in Hardcore Punk at the End of the Cold War -- Something Better Change: Hardcore and the Promise of a Liberating Punk Education -- "There is no hope for the USA": Bad Brains and The Sounds of Race in DC Hardcore -- Ms. Bob Davis and Hardcore California: A Conversation About a Forty-Year-Old Document of Hardcore Research -- Writing from Hardcore: Interwoven Lines of Becoming -- White Punks in the Chocolate City: Hardcore and Local History in Washington, DC -- The Musical Aesthetics of Hardcore: Straightforward, Strident, and Antagonistic -- Adventures of a DIY Oral Historian: How the Hardcore Punk Rock Scene of the 1980s Continues to Influence My Life as a Writer -- Whose Loud Fast Rules? - Always Already Post-Hardcore -- "Have You Never Been Mellow?" - Joy and Ugliness in Punk and Hardcore Aesthetics -- Queer‐feminist Hardcore/Punk: Academic Research and Community Support in the Age of the Pandemic -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements.

For more than 40 years, hardcore and punk have promised to offer an alternative to what is perceived as the norm and as mainstream. Hardcore Research: Punk, Practice, Politics provides a comprehensive insight into the most active, outspoken, and widely received scholarly positions in the academic discourses on hardcore and punk and combines them with a variety of new and emerging voices. The book brings together scholars with personal ties to past and present hardcore and punk scenes, who present both insightful and critical examinations of the rich and varied histories of this subcultural phenomenon and its current reverberations at the intersection of cultural practice and academic research