Hardcore Research: Punk, Practice, Politics

Contents\nIntroduction\nChanging Perspectives: From Participation to Observation (Autoethnography of a Punk Researcher)\nMilo Goes to College, Ellen Goes to Grad School: The Series of Events that Turned an Afterschool Hobby into a Hardcore Pursuit of Punk Rock\nA Network of Hardcore Researchers: Punk Studies, Punk Scholarship, Punk Pedagogy\n“Dancing on the Corpses’ Ashes”: On Post-Hardcore Performance and Erased Nonwhite Bodies\nHardcore, Punk, and Academia: A Conversation between Brian Cogan and Kevin Dunn\n“Survival of the Streets”: Krishna Consciousness and Religion in Hardcore Punk at the End of the Cold War\nSomething Better Change: Hardcore and the Promise of a Liberating Punk Education\n“There is no hope for the USA”: Bad Brains and The Sounds of Race in DC Hardcore\nMs. Bob Davis and Hardcore California: A Conversation About a Forty-Year-Old Document of Hardcore Research\nWriting from Hardcore: Interwoven Lines of Becoming\nWhite Punks in the Chocolate City: Hardcore and Local History in Washington, DC\nThe Musical Aesthetics of Hardcore: Straightforward, Strident, and Antagonistic\nAdventures of a DIY Oral Historian: How the Hardcore Punk Rock Scene of the 1980s Continues to Influence My Life as a Writer\nWhose Loud Fast Rules? – Always Already Post-Hardcore\n“Have You Never Been Mellow?” – Joy and Ugliness in Punk and Hardcore Aesthetics\nQueer-feminist Hardcore/Punk: Academic Research and Community Support in the Age of the Pandemic\nContributors\nAcknowledgements