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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"punk rock"”.
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The Sex Pistols: Punk rock as protest rhetoric
This thesis examines the punk music of the Sex Pistols as protest rhetoric. Seven of the songs on the album Never Mind the Bollocks Heres the Sex Pistols are analyzed for their content. The analysis utilizes the theory of symbolic convergence and its coinciding fantasy theme analysis along with …
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The Form of Nonconformity: Architecture & The Punk Rock Aesthetic
Punk rock is about music, rebellion, anarchy, and style. How can this be translated into architecture? Can a building possess these qualities? What would a "rebellious" building look like? How will it change our conceptions of "beauty?"
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Mapeando la cultura Kruda: Hip-Hop, Punk Rock y performances queer latino contemporáneo
… musical subcultures such as hip-hop and punk rock can serve as alternative spaces where the marginalized can challenge dominant societal norms through lifestyles, belief structures, and artistic expression that cross or exist without borders. This thesis explored how these subcultures are …
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Wear That Tape Out: Punk Rock Cassettes, DIY Histories, and Materializing the Self
… fifty-year history as a vehicle for punk cultural production, the cassette tape remains a powerful signifier of anti-commercialism for punks. This dissertation considers the legacy of the cassette tape as a companion to punk rock and as a recording and playback medium that …
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Hitsville UK: Punk rock and graphic design in the faraway towns, 1976-84
… in the sleeve designs of a broad selection of UK punk seven inch singles released between 1976 and 1984, and to analyse these in relation to a number of different punk sub-genres and audience groups. Sleeves are mapped stylistically, geographically and chronologically to show the evolution of a …
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Constructing Music of Rebellion in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States
<p>In the late 1980s, the punk scene in the United States was plagued by Nazi skinheads, the macho violence of “straight-edge hardcore,” and musical stagnation. Moreover, Ronald Reagan, the symbol of all that punks detested, was no longer president, the Cold War was coming to an end, and the United …
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Culture from the slums: punk rock, authenticity and alternative culture in East and West Germany
… the development of the popular music genre punk since the 1970s, this study helps to explain why Germany after decades of dictatorship became democratic and how rock’n’roll contributed to this transformation. Investigating how youths used music to build alternative communities and identities …
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Under the Radar: The Everyday Resistance of Anarchist Punks in Bandung, Indonesia
… organizations. Translocal do-it-yourself (DIY) punk rock networks are spaces in which alternative and subversive ideologies are enacted through the everyday implementation of anarchist philosophies and DIY ethics. Here, ‘under the radar’ modes of resistance are found in the lived realities, …
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Punk pedagogy: Teaching to confront intersecting discourses of domination
… this dissertation explores the applications of punk rock, its ethos and its philosophies, in the world of education. The overarching research questions driving the direction of this work are as follows: (a) What would an actualized punk pedagogy be characterized and defined as within the context …
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Echoes of Earth
… experience as a follower and practitioner of punk rock in her hometown of Branson, Missouri as a youth, and the ineffable truths that exist in the space between language and meaning. The introduction discusses and compares the poets Michael Palmer, Franz Wright, Mary Jo Bang and the ways that …
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The Un'Gathering of the Tribes: performing, writing, and remaking masculine identity at 1990s alternative rock festivals
… early 1990s, a number of up-and-coming American rock bands working in the so-called "alternative rock" genre coupled boyish sensitivity with aggressive sounds that fused punk rock, hard rock, and underground styles to create a genre that provided a thoughtful twist on the angry young man …
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Dena Ongi Dabil! ¡Todo Va Dabuten!: TensiÓN Y Heterogeneidad De La Cultura Radical Vasca En El LÍMite Del Estado DemocrÁTico (1978-...)
… I will study heterogeneous objects such as punk rock music, alternative culture memoirs, and the occupation of public space in order to reconstruct a radical politics outside hegemonic struggles to gain control of institutional politics.
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The Cranberry Club
<p>This novel is about an adolescent artist with undiagnosed depressive tendencies and a penchant for the grotesque. The main action takes place in Brooklyn, New York, during the calendar year of 1999. The central characters in this book are coping with anxiety, loss, and lethargy as they wander a …
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"Punk Has Always Been My School": The Educative Experience of Punk Learners
<p>Punk music, ideology, and community have been a piece of United States culture since the early-1970s. Although varied scholarship on Punk exists in a variety of disciplines, the educative aspect of Punk engagement, specifically the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) ethos, has yet to be fully explored by the …
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Four Chords to Freedom - Human Rights Education through Music Performance
<p>The purpose of this field project is to develop and implement a workshop called Four Chords to Freedom, which combines music performance with decolonizing, postcolonial feminist human rights education to serve as a space for transformative praxis in formal and non-formal educational settings. …
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Universal Burdens : Stories of (Un)Freedom from the Unitarian Universalist Association, The MOVE Organization, and Taqwacore
Zen Buddhists have long given the following advice to attain liberation: “Eat when you’re hungry. Sleep when you’re tired.” In other words: “Freedom” is the “knowledge of necessity” (Hegel, Marx, and Engels). Early Islamic communities dealt with the challenge of internal warfare and tyranny and …