Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change

by Ross Haenfler

Book Overview

Straight edge is a clean-living youth movement that emerged from the punk rock subculture in the early 1980s. Its basic tenets promote a drug-free, tobacco-free, and sexually responsible lifestyle--tenets that, on the surface, seem counter to those typical of teenage rebellion. For many straight-edge kids, however, being clean and sober was (and still is) the ultimate expression of resistance--resistance to the consumerist and self-indulgent ethos...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813538521
• ISBN13: 9780813538525
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"