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Music is a ubiquitous part of society and has some capacity for spurring social change by stirring emotions with people. The music genre of punk is overtly political and promotes different kinds of social change, and all this makes punk relevant to study for the social sciences and humanities. However, on one hand, research suggests that punk scenes are masculinist and partly excludes women. On the other hand, other studies point to possibilities for alternative constructions of gender to take form through punk. Furthermore, research on punk is comprehensive, but the Swedish subgenre of trallpunk seems to have been overlooked in studies. Therefore, this thesis aims to investigate how masculinity is constructed in trallpunk. Drawing on a discourse analytical approach, supplemented by the concepts of performativity and hegemonic masculinity, song lyrics and interview data are analyzed in order to discern constructions of gender in trallpunk. The main conclusion is that trallpunk carries a form of transformative potential pointing to the transformation of gender discourses. Such a potential suggests that restricting and oppressive discourses of gender and hegemonic masculinity could eventually be eradicated, which would be an important step towards a more open-minded and inclusive society.

Embedded in the transatlantic history of rock ‘n’ roll, punk rock has not only been regarded as a watershed moment in terms of music, aesthetics and music-related cultural practices, it has also been perceived as a subversive white cultural phenomenon. A Blacker and Browner Shade of Pale challenges this widespread and shortsighted assumption. People of color, particularly black Americans and Britons, and Latina/os have pro-actively contributed to punk’s evolution and shaped punk music culture in the United States and England. Examining why people of color are not linked to the punk rock genre and culture in normative discourse, this paper first scrutinizes the continuously unaddressed racialization of Anglo-American popular music itself and explores how the historical development and discursive construction of racial boundaries impacted the historiography of Anglo-American popular music. Building on these premises, the second central field of inquiry probes how the music press, aided and abetted by academic texts, constructs punk as a white music mono-culture that such discourse historicizes, analyzes, and maintains. Both popular (journalistic) and academic publications have largely ignored or underrepresented the presence of people of color, especially black (American) as well as Latina/o participants, in punk rock culture. The thesis’ third major focus imagines punk as a fluid social and musical convergence culture that continuously crosses unstable boundaries of genres, races, and genders. A Blacker and Browner Shade of Pale thus indicates an emerging awareness of how popular and academic discourse can become more sensitive to punk's multiracial, inclusive, and participatory mores.

What can 15th century France and heavy metal have in common? In Heavy Metal Humor, Gary Powell explores metal culture through the work of Mikael Bakhtin‘s “carnivalesque theory.” Describing the practice of inverting commonly understood notions of respectability and the increasing attempts to normalize them, Bakhtin argues that carnivals in Francois Rabelais’ work illustrate a sacrilegious uprising by the peasant classes during carnival days against dogmatic aristocrats. Powell asserts that Rabelais’ work describes cartoonish carnivals that continue in as exaggerated themes and tropes into other literary styles, such as comedy and horror that ultimately inform modern-day metal culture. To highlight the similarities of Bakhtin’s interpretation of Rabelais’ work to modern-day metal culture, Powell draw parallels to between Bakhtin’s carnivalesque theory and metal culture with two different, exemplary “humorous” metal performances, GWAR and Anal Cunt. Powell chooses “humorous” metal groups because, to achieve their humor, they exaggerate tropes, and behaviors in metal culture. To this end, Powell explores metal culture through GWAR, a costumed band who sprays their audience with fake body fluids as they decapitate effigies. He points out examples of Rabelais’ work which Bakhtin uses to describe carnivalesque tropes, and threads them to modern-day metal culture. Powell then indicates how carnivalesque performances amplify with Anal Cunt, a “satirical” hateful, grindcore group. In the band’s performance which is both serious and humorous at once, Anal Cunt draws on several carnivalesque behaviors. To dissect this band’s performance, Powell augments Bakhtin’s carnivalesque theory with Richard Schechner’s theory of “dark play” and Johan Huizinga’s “play communities” to more describe and illustrate why some aspects of modern-day metal culture do not match Bakhtin’s theory based on medieval French literature. However, carnivalesque humor becomes ambiguous and social and political problems arise as it escalates. As disrespectability is promoted, social and political tensions surface. Countering Bakhtin’s utopian notion of carnivalesque uprising, Powell highlights how socio-political turmoil presents itself in carnivalesque performance by referring to examples of confusion and concern regarding racism and sexism, something left unexplored in Bakhtin’s work. Powell suggests expanding and modernizing Bakhtin’s carnival could open pathways toward solutions to carnival culture’s socio-political ills.

The following thesis investigates the British punk movement of the mid-late seventies and suggests that, by performing acts of imaginative re-identification, we may gain greater insights into both the phenomenon of punk and aspects of Jesus’ life, ministry, and teaching despite their axiomatic and sometimes problematic differences. To do this we explore the power of the sartorial creations that the movement adopted and the way in which they conveyed an oppositional protest message and stance. We explore punk graphics and the way in which they could offer a targeted critique of the nation. We look at punk performances and how they confrontationally engaged with their audiences and what they wanted to elicit in return. We reflect on women in punk, punk in Northern Ireland and the relationship between punk and the black community and the degree to which punk exhibited a counter-cultural attitude to relationships. Concluding our look at punk we investigate how society, the authorities and commerce reacted to the movement, before investigating punk as a trans-historical essence. Having explored punk and established imaginative connections we then revisit aspects of Jesus’ life and consider him as a subversive who negated some of the national symbols of Israel, collided with Jewish national authority and reversed many of the nation’s perspectives. We look at the more confrontational nature of Jesus, his use of symbolic physical statements and his interaction with women, teaching on enemies and the way he related to the outcast. We then conclude by showing the degree to which the present-day church has been absorbed into the surrounding culture and explore two instances in post-war theology where there has been a recovery of the more seditious pattern within Jesus’ life before seeing whether there is anything that the church may learn from imaginatively identifying with punk.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-06-01T14:03:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 EMERSON MAGALHÃES.pdf: 4503685 bytes, checksum: f660dc448e46fbaa62e032dbcea91699 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T14:03:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EMERSON MAGALHÃES.pdf: 4503685 bytes, checksum: f660dc448e46fbaa62e032dbcea91699 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-10 / The present work has the objective of analyzing the construction of the cultural and musical scene of alternative rock from Goiás. From the notion of field, abstracted from the work of Pierre Bourdieu (2012), presents the rock from its roots and its emergence in the United States as well as its main agents and musicians. There is also the Brazilian rock of the 80's, influenced by the majors, followed by the opposition of the punk movement, in parallel with the São Paulo working-class movement, as a periphery movement and groups forgotten by the great musical media. Through the motto of it yourself, punks countered this idea of dominance by major record companies, provoking a conflict between the dominant, represented by the majors, and the dominated, represented by the underground punk movement. This movement reverberates in Goiás and the youth of Goiás promote, through festivals and fanzines, a local rock forgotten of the call Axis Rio-São Paulo and against the attempt to create a sertaneja musical identity for the goianos. In this process, it creates a musical and cultural scene with its own identity. The work heard entrepreneurs, participants of bands in interviews and had as theoretical contributions of Napolitano (2005), Benevides (2010), (2013), Bourdieu (1996), (2007), (2012), Alexandre (2002), Dapieve (1996), O‟Hara (2005), Friedlander (2002), Dias(2000), Brandini (2004), Kossa (2005). / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo a análise da construção da cena cultural e musical do rock alternativo goiano. A partir da noção de campo, abstraída da obra de Pierre Bourdieu (2012), apresenta-se o rock desde suas raízes e o seu o seu surgimento nos Estados Unidos assim como seus principais agentes e músicos. Apresenta-se também o rock brasileiro dos anos 80, influenciado pelas grandes gravadoras (majors), seguido da contraposição do movimento punk, paralelamente ao movimento operário de São Paulo, como um movimento de periferia e de grupos esquecidos pela grande mídia musical. Através do lema do it yourself (faça você mesmo) os punks se contrapuseram a essa ideia de domínio das grandes gravadoras, provocando um conflito entre os dominantes, representado pelas majors, e os dominados, representados pelo movimento underground punk. Esse movimento reverbera em Goiás e a juventude goiana promove, através de festivais e fanzines, um rock local esquecido do chamado Eixo Rio-São Paulo e contra a tentativa de se criar uma identidade musical sertaneja para os goianos. Nesse processo, cria uma cena musical e cultural com identidade própria. O trabalho ouviu empresários, participantes de bandas em entrevistas e teve como aportes teóricos Napolitano (2005), Benevides (2010), (2013), Bourdieu (1996), (2007), (2012), Alexandre (2002), Dapieve (1996), O‟Hara (2005), Friedlander (2002), Dias(2000), Brandini (2004), Kossa (2005).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Valdir da Silva Oliveira.pdf: 343625 bytes, checksum: d24a5410bcf3c0f7d6960589b815ec29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-15 / The present work comes from my experiences and concerns with the decade of the 1980 s. When living at Parque São Rafael, a district located on the east side of São Paulo city, I had the opportunity to witness the punk movement that grew in the city. Nevertheless, what really called my attention was the little, but growing, commitment to the punk movement with anarchist ideas which were expressed by its practices and experiences. The main aim of this reasearch is to analyse, discusss and study the anarchism in the punk movement, taking into account its political, social and cultural characteristics in São Paulo city. In order to analyse it, the study is based on documents, texts, enterviews, letters, articles and fanzines published by punk members of the studied historical period. We tried to give voice and visibility to historical individuals which actively integrated the punk movement and had relation to anarchist ideas in the decade of the 1980 s. We also bared in mind that the punks are social individuals living and interacting in society. It is known that those interactions are marked by struggles, resistance and interference in their search for indentity references in the city. So our intention is to make a contribuition to the debate and discussion about anarchism in the punk movement. This study does not include conclusions but discusses the ways and interactions in the punk movement related to anarchism as they aimed at an anarchist society. That attitude is still alive in many groups called anarcho-punks which continue their protests in São Paulo / A presente dissertação partiu de minhas inquietações vivenciadas na década de 1980. Morando no Parque São Rafael, Zona Leste da cidade de São Paulo, pude presenciar, cotidianamente, a mobilização punk que emergia com força e vitalidade na cidade. No entanto, o que mais me chamava atenção era o pequeno, mas crescente, engajamento do movimento punk com o anarquismo. Manifestado em suas práticas e experiências no processo de ocupação e vivências nos espaços e territórios da cidade. O objeto de pesquisa desse trabalho é refletir, discutir e estudar o anarquismo no movimento punk, suas incursões políticas, sociais e culturais na metrópole paulistana. Para isto, utilizamos como fontes os próprios discursos dos remanescentes punks da época pesquisada, através de relatos, textos e artigos publicados nos fanzines (meio de comunicação dos punks), cartas trocadas entre os integrantes do movimento e entrevistas com punks do período abordado, onde analisamos as tensões e disputas dos punks enquanto memória de vidas e lutas. Procuramos dar voz e visibilidade aos sujeitos históricos que interagiram, vivenciaram, discutiram e refletiram sobre o anarquismo no movimento punk, na década de 1980. O campo da memória foi abordado com a compreensão de que os punks são sujeitos sociais que interagem uns com os outros e com a sociedade como um todo. Compreendendo que essas interações estão permeadas de lutas, resistências e interferências na busca de referências identitárias nos espaços urbanos da cidade. Esperamos ter contribuído para o debate, as discussões e reflexões sobre o anarquismo no movimento punk. Entretanto, esta dissertação não apresenta conclusões e sim sondagens de caminhos que interagem uns com os outros. Pois o ideal punk de uma sociedade anarquista, onde não haja nenhum tipo de dominação e exploração, ainda persiste na postura e atitude de vários grupos denominados anarco-punks que continuam seu protesto nas ruas e praças da cidade de São Paulo

Twenty-five years of independent, underground, or punk rock music-making in St. John's, Newfoundland, have been defined by geographic isolation. In tracing a historical record of the small city's punk/indie scene, this project seeks to evaluate recent academic discussion surrounding the role of collectivity in artistic 'independence' and examine the impact of prevailing international aesthetics and changing communication technologies on local practice. The self-containment and self-sufficiency of the St. John's music community, largely the product of the city's isolated position on the extreme eastern tip of a large island off the east coast of North America, provide a unique backdrop against which to foreground a discussion of the distance between indie/punk rhetoric and reality. I contend that 'scene' in popular and academic use refers to the casual aggregation occasioned by similar interest and shared location, while 'community' hints at effort, co-operation and productive support.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-265). / Also available by subscription via World Wide Web / xii, 265 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T13:27:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 8208772 bytes, checksum: 6418bc3f0e3532107d9d8d8ac64b836f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-07-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Tis work is consequence of a research based on the participant observation method, complemented by a posture of observant participation, which objective was to understand, through an analysis of cultural and polictic-social activities organized by7 two collective actor in the anarchic punk scene in João Pessoa city, the processes through which these, inspired in the punk culture and in the anarchist ideology, build in their movement an alternative autonomist and contra cultural of organization that is contradiction to the hierarchical and bureaucratic models of the current official politics. Also it contradicts the industrial culture and its mass culture. . Trying to understand the peculiar style of organization of activities and events propagandized by collective actors in the mentioned scene, it was made a theoretic debate among urban sociologists and anthropologists that study young cultures and social movements, including some that wrote about movements anarchist, punk and anarch-punk. In this research it was also analyzed militancy source materials, such as informative bulletins, reports of anarchpunk meeting of the northeast region of Brazil and websites of anarch-punk organizations. Based in the research efforts, we realized that the style of organization of the anarch-punk acting in the João Pessoa scene, creates a new style of actuation influenced however different of the styles anarchist and punk. That happens because it is mixed in their activities cultural and polictic-social elements and aspects that before is only found separated or absent in each of these two styles of actuation. / Este trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa embasada no método da observação participante, complementado por uma postura de participação observante, que objetivou compreender, através de uma análise das atividades culturais e polícito-sociais organizadas por dois coletivos atuantes na cena anarco-punk da cidade de João Pessoa/PB, os processos através dos quais estes, inspirados na cultura punk e na ideologia anarquista, constroem em suas movimentações uma alternativa autonomista e contracultural de organização que se contrapõe aos modelos hierárquicos e burocráticos das políticas oficiais da sociedade vigente, contrapondo-se também à indústria cultural e sua cultura de massas. procurando compreender este estilo peculiar de organização das atividades e eventos protagonizados pelos coletivos atuantes na referida cena, realizei um debate teórico com sociólogos e antropólogos urbanos estudiosos das culturas juvenis e dos movimentos sociais, dentre estes alguns que escreveram sobre os movimentos anarquista, punk e anarco-punk. Nesta pesquisa ainda foram analisados materiais de militância como boletins informativos, relatórios de encontros anarcopunks da região nordeste do Brasil e sites de organizações anarco-punks. Com base nesses esforços de pesquisa, cheguei ao entendimento de que o estilo de organização dos anarco-punks atuantes na cena de João Pessoa, funda um "novo" estilo de atuação, influenciado, mas diferente dos estilos de atuação anarquista e punk, ao mesclar em suas atividades elementos e aspectos culturais e político-sociais que antes se encontravam separados ou ausentes em cada um desses dois estilos de atuação.