Grinding California - Culture and Corporeality in American Skate Punk (Paperback)

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 the 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, Felix 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.

General

Imprint:	Transcript Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Cultural and Media Studies
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	December 2012
Authors:	Konstantin Butz
Dimensions:	226 x 150 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-3-8376-2122-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Indie Books > History > American history > General Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Indie Promotions
LSN:	3-8376-2122-7
Barcode:	9783837621228

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