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xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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Music in American life.
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| Contents |
The rise of Peoria punk rock: 1956-1986. Hebbie Mesolithic eon drizzle -- Creating the Peoria scene -- Punks live on straight edge -- The underground goes aboveground -- I was a mutant cornchip -- Building the scene: 1986-1992. Great loser bands and loosey-goosey backwash gigs -- What played (and didn't play) in Peoria -- Public enemy number one -- Montage of madness -- Nazi punks fuck off -- The next nirvana: 1992-1997. Teenage airwaves -- For God and country -- This is not a Fugazi chapter -- Rock over London, rock over Peoria -- Tolling of the digital bell: 1997-2007. Hidden by cornfields -- Our CBGB -- Peoria heights . . . and lows -- For God and country (alternate take). |
| Summary |
"Synonymous with American mediocrity, Peoria was fertile ground for the boredom- and anger-fueled fury of punk rock. Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett explore the do-it-yourself scene built by Peoria punks, performers, and scenesters in the 1980s and 1990s. From fanzines to indie record shops to renting the VFW hall for an all-ages show, Peoria's punk culture reflected the movement elsewhere, but the region's conservatism and industrial decline offered a richer-than-usual target environment for rebellion. Eyewitness accounts take readers into hangouts and long-lost venues, while interviews with the people who were there trace the ever-changing scene and varied fortunes of local legends like Caustic Defiance, Dollface, and Planes Mistaken for Stars. What emerges is a sympathetic portrait of a youth culture in search of entertainment but just as hungry for community-the shared sense of otherness that, even for one night only, could unite outsiders and discontents under the banner of music. A raucous look at a small-city underground, Punks in Peoria takes readers off the beaten track to reveal the punk rock life as lived in Anytown, U.S.A"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Punk rock music -- Illinois -- Peoria -- History and criticism.
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Rock music -- Illinois -- Peoria -- History and criticism.
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Punk culture -- Illinois -- Peoria.
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Punk rock music -- History and criticism.
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Punk rock music -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Punk rock music -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Punk rock musicians -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Punk rock musicians -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Punk culture.
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Punk rock music.
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Rock music.
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Punk rock musicians.
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Rock musicians.
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Rock groups.
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| Added Author |
Barrett, Dawson, author.
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| Added Title |
Making a scene in the American heartland |
| ISBN |
9780252043802 (hardcover) |
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0252043804 (hardcover) |
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9780252085796 (paperback) |
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0252085795 (paperback) |
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