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Grinding California: Culture and Corporeality in American Skate Punk

Grinding California: Culture and Corporeality in American Skate Punk

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General SociologyGeneral United States HistoryPunk

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ISBN10: 3837621227
ISBN13: 9783837621228
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: Dec 6 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Grinding California provides the first academic analysis of the subculture of skate punk at book-length. It establishes highly critical evaluations of the discourses that influenced early skateboarding and punk cultures. Based on an examination of songs, flyers, magazines, and videos, Konstantin Butz revisits American popular cultures of the 1980s and approaches them from a variety of theoretical and methodological angles. He introduces contemplations of the rebellious potential that can be located within skate punk's material and corporeal contestations of the site-specific locale of suburban Southern California. Theoretical recourses to thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht are topped off with excerpts from interviews with some of the most influential protagonists of the 1980s skate punk scene.

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