En los años sesenta del siglo pasado los medios de prensa limeños clasificaron a Los Saicos como un grupo de nueva ola. Cuarenta años más tarde, a inicios del siglo XXI, los historiadores del rock peruano lo conceptualizaron como un grupo “inventor del punk”. Estos dos hechos demuestran que, a lo largo de cuatro décadas, los discursos que determinaron la clasificación de Los Saicos en los medios de prensa y en la historiografía del rock local pasaron por un importante proceso de transformación. Dado que no existen investigaciones académicas que muestren los antecedentes históricos y las premisas conceptuales que subyacieron a estas transformaciones, la presente tesis busca llenar este vacío a través de un análisis de la construcción de lo punk en el discurso historiográfico sobre Los Saicos. El primer capítulo muestra la problemática polisemia del término punk, así como la asunción por parte de periodistas e historiadores de que el rock de garaje de mediados de los años sesenta –el género practicado por Los Saicos– fue la raíz del punk británico de finales de los años setenta. Estos dos hechos son relevantes porque se encuentran en la base de la reconstrucción de Los Saicos como un grupo “inventor del punk”. El segundo capítulo se aproxima a los géneros musicales como hechos estéticos y distingue analíticamente entre el rock de garaje de los años sesenta y el punk británico de los años setenta, evaluando la música de Los Saicos a partir de estas distinciones. Finalmente, en el tercer capítulo, tras las aclaraciones históricas y estéticas hechas en los dos capítulos anteriores, se muestran cuáles fueron los presupuestos que subyacieron a la conceptualización de Los Saicos como un grupo responsable de “inventar el punk”, señalando los alcances y las limitaciones de esta conceptualización.

This thesis handles with the lifestyle of Straight Edge youth subculture. This subculture is identified by refusing alcohol, drugs, tobacco, sexual promiscuity and emphasizing moral compassion. First the thesis describes the lifestyle in general, including the typical attitudes, values and freetime activities. Further it reflects subcultures, their place within society, their specifics, and maps the academic studies of (post)subcultural theories. Following part describes the Straight Edge subculture in detail and is asking the question whether this subculture can fulfill the function of the substition of religion. The qualitative analysis then focuses on the lifestyle of the individual followers, their perception of the community, the relationship with society and selfpresentation. Additionaly the thesis presents the ethical and moral dimension of Straight Edge and delas with the problem of commercialism of subcultures.

Dans les années 1990 et 2000, la scène musicale underground taiwanaise a vu naître successivement le Taik – ou Rock Taike 台客搖滾 taike yaogun – puis le Taiwan Traditional Rap, ou 台灣味唸歌 Taiwan wei niange. Ces courants « trans-musicaux » se rejoignent sur de nombreux points tels que la revendication de « traditions » populaires locales, accompagnée cependant d'une forte complaisance au métissage culturel, et par-dessus tout d'un besoin de se définir – de s'identifier – en dehors des clichés aliénants du bon-goût, dictés de manière hégémonique par la culture « dominante » centrée depuis la fin des années 1940 sur le modèle de la République de Chine. Appuyée par un travail de terrain réalisé entre 2005 et 2010 selon les principes de l'observation participante, et pensée à la lumière des cultural studies et d'ouvrages d'auteurs tels que Dick Hebdige et Stuart Hall, cette thèse propose une approche « sensible » d'une sous-culture particulière, tempérée d'autre part par une critique des théories développées par Pierre Bourdieu dans La Distinction, Critique sociale du jugement. Elle tente ainsi – au travers du prisme trans-musical – de définir la place occupée par la sous-culture locale « Taike » dans l'histoire globale d'autres sous-cultures comparables, et s'impose alors en contexte tel un trait d'union entre Taiwan et le reste du monde. / In the 1990's and 2000's, the underground music scene in Taiwan successively gave birth to the Taik – also called Taike Rock 台客搖滾 taike yaogun – then to Taiwan Traditional Rap 台灣味唸歌 Taiwan wei niange. These "trans-musical" currents are similar in many issues such as the claim to local folk traditions, accompanied however by accomodating a strong cultural mix and by a need to define – to identify – themselves outside the alienating good taste, so dictated since the late 1940's by the hegemonic "dominant" culture focused along the lines of the Republic of China. This thesis proposes a ''sensitive'' approach to a particular subculture, furthermore tempered by a critique of theories developed by Pierre Bourdieu in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. It has been backed up by field studies conducted between 2005 and 2010 according to the principles of the participant-observer and trends of thought enlightened by cultural studies and works of authors such as Dick Hebdige and Stuart Hall. It attempts also – through the prism of trans-musicality – to define the place of the local "Taike" subculture in the global history of other comparable subcultures, as an essentiel link between Taiwan and the rest of the world.

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This dissertation examines the historical contexts, major themes, and archival practices of queercore, an anti-normative queer and punk subculture comprised of music, zines, film, art, literature and new media that was instigated in 1985 by Bruce LaBruce and G.B. Jones in Toronto, Ontario. Via their fanzine J.D.s., LaBruce and Jones declared “civil war” on the punk and gay and lesbian mainstreams and conjured queercore as a multimedia subculture situated in pointed opposition to the homophobia of mainline punk and the lifeless sexual politics and assimilationist tendencies of dominant gay and lesbian society. In the pages that follow, I engage wider histories of radical queer politics and punk aesthetics and values to reveal the generative and long-standing symbiosis between these two energies – a symbiosis that informs queercore, but that also extends beyond its temporal and material boundaries. Through close analysis of queercore films (e.g. No Skin Off My Ass, The Lollipop Generation, The Living End, By Hook or By Crook), music (e.g., Pansy Division, Tribe 8, Beth Ditto/The Gossip, Nomy Lamm) and zines (e.g., J.D.s, SCAB, Bimbox, Bamboo Girl, i’m so fucking beautiful), I establish queercore’s primary themes: explicit sexuality (the use of risky, erotic queer punk images and performances to undermine heteronormativity and confront accepted notions of gay and punk identity); imagined violence (the deployment of a threatened, as opposed to actualized, violence in the hopes of frightening and, thus, destabilizing powerful white, bourgeois, heterosexual masculinity); and bodily difference (the circulation of affirmative representations of marginalized queer bodies, and specifically those that are fat, disabled and/or gender non-normative). Finally, I conclude with an exploration of the institutions and individuals currently involved in queercore archival efforts, thus placing my project within a crucial lineage of subcultural preservation. Taken as a whole, this study asserts that queercore articulates and disseminates a set of alternative identities, aesthetics, politics and representations for queer folks to occupy and engage within social space, providing a dynamic anti-normative, anti-corporate, D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) alternative to a consumer-capitalist hetero- and homo-normative mainstream. / text

From the claims of punk rocker GG Allin aiming to shed his own blood for Rock ‘n’ Roll to the religiously tinted narratives of Bruce Springsteen we come to find artists using religious references to color their artistic medium. A question arises: Could these utterances and narratives show a deeper meaning behind Rock ‘n’ Roll such that it can give individuals a way to obtain religious experience? This thesis aims at arguing for the ability of Rock ‘n’ Roll as having a way to incite feelings of religious experience and communitas. Through the usage of auto-ethnography coupled with subsidiary sources from academic to pop culture writers this thesis will investigate if such a creative form helps to enable individuals to experience transcendence and feelings of community while immersed in Rock ‘n’ Roll.

From the claims of punk rocker GG Allin aiming to shed his own blood for Rock ‘n’ Roll to the religiously tinted narratives of Bruce Springsteen we come to find artists using religious references to color their artistic medium. A question arises: Could these utterances and narratives show a deeper meaning behind Rock ‘n’ Roll such that it can give individuals a way to obtain religious experience? This thesis aims at arguing for the ability of Rock ‘n’ Roll as having a way to incite feelings of religious experience and communitas. Through the usage of auto-ethnography coupled with subsidiary sources from academic to pop culture writers this thesis will investigate if such a creative form helps to enable individuals to experience transcendence and feelings of community while immersed in Rock ‘n’ Roll.

The goal of this musical anthropology qualitative research, mainly based on the field work, is to describe, analyze and interpret the process of construction of local identity of an alternative bands in Moravian Slovácko. The subject of this research are mainly two music bands from Slovácko - PSCrew and 12:PIET. PSCrew band represents hip-hop style and 12:PIET ranks among punk style bands. The musical production of these bands is defined (using an emic term) as an alternative folklore. With a use of theoretical concepts of stereotype and partially also retro and revival, I tried to demonstrate how these alternative musicians with an emphasis to their authenticity by the means of their musical spheres (so called soundscapes) pursue their notion of what is considered to be related to Slovácko and how the negotiation of their local identity is involved. For that the locally defined stereotypes are often used. These are typically recontextualized by its adaptation into the form that reflects the postmodern period.

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