ENG 326 - PUNK CULTURES IN AMERICA

Institution:

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Subject:

English

Description:

Punk-as style, genre, attitude-is most frequently recognized as a musical phenomenon, which emerged in the mid-l 970s as an anarchic, sometimes satiric, always disruptive force. This course broadens that popular concept, engaging a series of cultural moments-between the mid-l 960s through the 1980s-that are crucial for our understanding of punk's appearance and elaboration in the United States. The course will examine a number of artifacts that articulated and incorporated punk's style and energy: records and reviews, but also prose fiction, film, visual arts, graphic narrative, and theoretical discourse. Authors and artists that will be given significant attention include the Stooges, Lester Bangs, Samuel R. Delany, Patti Smith, Black Flag, Los Bros. Hernandez, Kathy Acker, X, Linda Hutcheon, Greil Marcus, Fredric Jameson, and Raymond Williams.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.kutztown.edu/

Phone Number:

(610) 683-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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