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Punk rock music has long been labeled sexist as copious media-generated accounts and reports of the genre concentrate on male artists, hyper-masculine performances, and lyrics considered to be aggressive, sexist, and misogynist. However, scholars have rarely examined punk rock music longitudinally, focusing heavily on 1980s and 1990s manifestations of the genre. Furthermore, few systematic content analyses of feminist themes in punk rock song lyrics have been conducted. The present research is a longitudinal content analysis of lyrics of 600 punk rock songs released for four decades between 1970 and 2009 to examine the prevalence of and longitudinal shifts in antiestablishment themes, the prevalence of and longitudinal shifts in sexist themes relative to feminist themes, the prevalence of and longitudinal shifts in specific feminist branches, and what factors are related to feminism. Using top-rated albums retrieved from Sputnik Music’s “Best Punk Albums” charts, systematic random sampling was applied to select 50 songs for each combination of three gender types and four decades. Sexism and feminism were then operationalized to construct a coding sheet to examine relevant dimensions. While the present study found no significant patterns of longitudinal increase or decrease in feminist or sexist themes, it revealed that feminist themes were consistently high across four decades and, furthermore, indicated a phenomenon of post-modern hybridity.

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This paper examines activists in the United States that supported the socialist Nicaraguan government of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and opposed efforts by the Reagan Administration to militarily undermine Nicaragua’s new government during the 1980s. Such scholarship examines the rise of a leftist political coalition organized around supporting Nicaragua’s government and this solidarity movement’s eventual demise after the Sandinistas lost their country’s 1990 Presidential election. The work ultimately asks how did U.S. leftists and progressives of the late 1970s and 1980s perceive Nicaragua’s new government and how did these perceptions affect the ways in which these activists rallied to support the Sandinistas in the face of the Contra War? In answering this question, this paper consults a variety of primary sources including articles from socialist newspapers, the meeting minutes and notes of solidarity organizations, and oral histories with former activists. “I Have My Mind!” also consults cultural sources such as the protest and art benefit flyers and the lyrics to punk rock songs of the period to make its claims. This Masters Thesis argues that U.S. Americans’ solidarity with the Sandinistas relied upon a romanticization of Nicaraguan revolutionary reforms representative of movement participants’ own political aspirations. / History

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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.

The feeling of a narcotic cannot be put to words, just as the sensation one receives from her or his favorite artwork is impossible to record. Equally, both these delicacies of modern existence must be sought out. The user/viewer only gets a tiny taste and must therefore keep coming back for more. Utopia may be an unrealistic construction of culture, but I would posit the idea the both narcotics and art strive to give us just that – however tiny a taste. This paper addresses the intersections of visual art, drugs, anti-hero worship and contemporary representations of Romanticism throughout the American body politic.

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).

These seven stories chronicle the author's apprenticeship as a fiction writer. Four are written in the first-person point of view, two are in a limited third-person, and one is written in third-person objective. The stories vary considerably with respect to character, tone, and setting; however, all may be said to explore the abjection and isolation of growing up in United States.

This thesis introduces the reader to rock music in Durban from 1963 to 1985, tracing the development of rock in Durban from rock'n'roll to hard core punk. Although the thesis is historically orientated, it also endeavours to show the relationship of rock music in Durban to three central themes, viz: the relationship of rock in Durban to the socio-political realities of apartheid in South Africa; the role of women in local rock, and the identity crisis experienced by white, English-speaking South Africans. Each of these themes is explored in a separate chapter, with Chapter Two providing the bulk of historical data on which the remaining chapters are based. Besides the important goal of documenting a forgotten and ignored rock history, one central concern pervades this work. In every chapter, the conclusions reached all point to the identity crisis experienced both by South African rock audiences and the rock musicians themselves. The constant hankering after international (and specifically British) rock music trends both by audiences and fans is symptomatic of a culture in crisis, and it is the search for the reasons for this identity crisis that dominate this work. The global/local debate and its relationship to rock in South Africa has been a useful theoretical tool in the unravelling of the identity crisis mentioned above. Chapter Four focusses on the role of women in the Durban rock scene and documents the difficulties experienced by women who were rock musicians in Durban. This is a small contribution to the increasing field of womens' studies, and I have attempted to relate the role of women in rock in Durban to other studies in this field. / Thesis (M.Mus.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1995.