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Grinding California

Culture and Corporeality in American Skate Punk

Konstantin Butz author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transcript Verlag

Published:27th Nov '12

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»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 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, Félix 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.

»Der englischsprachige Ton des Buchs ist wissenschaftlich aufgebaut und formuliert, der Inhalt aber spannend genug aufbereitet, um Leser*innen mit Interesse an Skateboarding/Hardcore/Skaterock/Jugendsubkultur in seinen Bann zu ziehen.« Georg Reinhardt, RABEN!, 11 (2015) Reviewed in: Trust, 160/3 (2013)

ISBN: 9783837621228

Dimensions: 23mm x 15mm x 2mm

Weight: 992g

288 pages