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Christian punk is a surprisingly successful musical subculture and
a fascinating expression of American evangelicalism. Situating
Christian punk within the modern history of Christianity and the
rapidly changing culture of spirituality and secularity, this book
illustrates how Christian punk continues punk's autonomous and
oppositional creative practices, but from within a typically
traditional evangelical morality. Analyzing straight edge Christian
abstinence and punk-friendly churches, this book also focuses on
gender performance within a subculture dominated by young men in a
time of contested gender roles and ideologies. Critically-minded
and rich in ethnographic data and insider perspectives, Christian
Punk will engage scholars of contemporary evangelicalism, religion
and popular music, and punk and all its related subcultures.
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Trouble Bored
(Paperback)
Matthew Ryan Lowery; Cover design or artwork by Scott White
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In 2005, British supermodel Kate Moss went to Glastonbury with her
then-boyfriend, indie rocker Pete Doherty. Their unwashed
appearance captured widespread attention, propelling the British
indie music scene and its signature look-slender bodies clad in
skinny jeans-to the center of popular fashion. Using this
fashionable watershed as a launching point, Fashioning Indie
narrates indie's evolution: from a 1980s British music subculture
into a 21st-century international fashion phenomenon. It explores
the lucrative transformation of indie style, first into high
concept menswear and later into "festival fashion"-a womenswear
phenomenon that remade what indie looked like and provided a
launching point to reimagine who the ideal subject of indie could
be. Fashioning Indie is essential reading for academic and popular
audiences, offering an original account of what happens when a
subculture is incorporated into the commercial fashion system. As
the music and fashions of festivals face increasing scrutiny in
debates about diversity and inclusion, and the transformations of
indie style coincide with the global expansion of the second-hand
retail sector, the book offers also essential insights into the
broader culture of popular fashion in the 21st century and the
values that inform it.
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Stranded
(Paperback)
Clinton Walker
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Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first
book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on
how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in
American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on
musical analysis, archival research, and new interviews, Damaged
provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during
this period and illuminates the contemporary importance of that
era. Evan Rapport outlines the ways in which punk developed out of
dramatic changes to America's cities and suburbs in the postwar
era, especially with respect to race. The musical styles that led
to punk included transformations to blues resources, experimental
visions of the American musical past, and bold reworkings of the
rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues sounds of the late 1950s and
early 1960s, revealing a historically oriented approach to rock
that is strikingly different from the common myths and conceptions
about punk. Following these approaches, punk itself reflected new
versions of older exchanges between the US and the UK, the changing
environments of American suburbs and cities, and a shift from the
expressions of older baby boomers to that of younger musicians
belonging to Generation X. Throughout the book, Rapport also
explores the discourses and contradictory narratives of punk
history, which are often in direct conflict with the world that is
captured in historical documents and revealed through musical
analysis.
As the satanic President Razour attempts to bring forward
Armageddon to prevent humanity repenting, the fate of us all rests
in the hands of Cleric20, a hedonistic loner with a chequered past,
and his robot sidekick, GiX. An action-packed literary shock to the
senses that mixes flights of comic fantasy with bouts of brutal
violence. Mankind's only hope seems to be having a very bad day.
Can Cleric20 halt Razour's devilish plans after an experimental
bioweapon deployed to kill him accidentally gives him superpowers?
Has the Devil inadvertently created a hero who could actually stop
him? Little can prepare you for this spiritually-charged,
cyber-noir thrill ride.
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