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1 online resource (x, 248 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index. |
| Contents |
Straight edge 101 -- Straight edge core values -- Straight edge as a social movement -- Positivity versus militancy : struggles within the scene -- Masculinity in contradiction : the two faces of straight edge -- Girls united and divided : women in straight edge -- Life after subculture : how older straight edgers redefine commitment -- Commercialization, the Internet, and the cultic milieu -- Conclusions -- A timeline of straight edge bands. |
| Summary |
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 that defines mainstream U.S. culture. In this first in-depth sociological analysis of the movement, Ross Haenfler follows the lives of dozens of strai. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Youth -- United States.
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Youth. |
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United States. |
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Straight-edge culture.
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Straight-edge culture. |
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Subculture -- United States.
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Subculture. |
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Straight-edge (Music) -- United States.
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Straight-edge (Music) |
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Hardcore (Music) -- United States.
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Hardcore (Music) |
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Punk culture -- United States.
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Punk culture. |
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Electronic books.
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Youth. |
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Subcultures. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Haenfler, Ross. Straight edge. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006 0813538513 0813538521 (DLC) 2005028099 (OCoLC)61821637 |
| ISBN |
9780813539911 (electronic book) |
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0813539919 (electronic book) |
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0813538513 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813538521 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813538518 |
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9780813538525 |
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1280947020 |
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9781280947025 |
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