modernistwitch:

jamiesinverguenza:

I reviewed this wack book called White Riot for MRR.

jtwigg365:

modraucous:

uh golnar rules

this review is SO GOOD, read it! sounds like this book missed the mark so incredibly hard. it’s a bummer how often that happens in academia on DIY culture (as he mentions).

Of course, this reveals Duncombe and Tremblay’s assumption that their “own experience” of punk—English speaking, suburban, US-based, middle-class, and white—is the norm from which others should be judged.

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This is the fucked up world in which we live, and I am the last person to romanticize punk as the colorblind utopia (or gender-neutral, or transcendent of class, etc.) some scene participants with their heads in the sand tell themselves that it is. Rather, it is to say that any study of punk must take into account this global-ness—and with it the profoundly different racial/ethnic/class/gender classifications that are at work in any given context (this means, in part, that we cannot afford to only see race in black and white, or only think of race in one way)—particularly if it hopes to understand how something like race or ethnicity is navigated by punks around the world. One cannot simply quote the Clash and be done with it.

This review…seems kind of brilliant. Hello, dissertation reading list.

Golnar is the fucking coolest.

this is such a good review! this book was so disappointing and frankly really frustrating to read. 

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