Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change
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Straight edge is a clean-living youth movement that emerged from the punk rock subculture in the early 1980s. Its basic tenets promote a drug-free, tobacco-free, and sexually responsible lifestyle--tenets that, on the surface, seem counter to those typical of teenage rebellion. For many straight-edge kids, however, being clean and sober was (and still is) the ultimate expression of resistance--resistance to the consumerist and self-indulgent ethos...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813538521
ISBN13:9780813538525
Release Date:June 2006
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.98 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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