Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. Changing Perspectives: From Participation to Observation (Autoethnography of a Punk Researcher) 27
5. 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 35
6. A Network of Hardcore Researchers: Punk Studies, Punk Scholarship, Punk Pedagogy 45
7. “Dancing on the Corpses’ Ashes”: On Post-Hardcore Performance and Erased Nonwhite Bodies 61
8. Hardcore, Punk, and Academia: A Conversation between Brian Cogan and Kevin Dunn 79
9. “Survival of the Streets”: Krishna Consciousness and Religion in Hardcore Punk at the End of the Cold War 91
10. Something Better Change: Hardcore and the Promise of a Liberating Punk Education 111
11. “There is no hope for the USA”: Bad Brains and The Sounds of Race in DC Hardcore 127
12. Ms. Bob Davis and Hardcore California: A Conversation About a Forty-Year-Old Document of Hardcore Research 147
13. Writing from Hardcore: Interwoven Lines of Becoming 157
14. White Punks in the Chocolate City: Hardcore and Local History in Washington, DC 171
15. The Musical Aesthetics of Hardcore: Straightforward, Strident, and Antagonistic 189
16. Adventures of a DIY Oral Historian: How the Hardcore Punk Rock Scene of the 1980s Continues to Influence My Life as a Writer 201
17. Whose Loud Fast Rules? – Always Already Post-Hardcore 215
18. “Have You Never Been Mellow?” – Joy and Ugliness in Punk and Hardcore Aesthetics 227
19. Queer-feminist Hardcore/Punk: Academic Research and Community Support in the Age of the Pandemic 235
20. Contributors 253
21. Acknowledgements 275