What is it about?
This essay examines how the post-industrial environment of Detroit helped give birth the the modern American hardcore punk scene.
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Why is it important?
This essay moves beyond oral history and attempts to fully capture the context and the environment which helped create American punk rock - a genre that has had tremendous influence during the past 40 years in American culture.
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This is an essay written out of love - love for a musical genre that has shaped so many of us.
Dr Michael Carriere
Milwaukee School of Engineering
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This page is a summary of: Touch and Go Records and the Rise of Hardcore Punk in Late Twentieth-Century Detroit, Cultural History, April 2015, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/cult.2015.0082.
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