Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: “Let’s skate!”

A Brief Note on Subcultures

1 CONTEXT

1.1 The Body and Interlocking Expressions

1.1.1 Lived Bodies: Movement, Forces, and Politics

1.1.2 Body, Postmodernism, and Capitalism

1.1.3 An Intersectional Access: Approaching Skate Punk

1.2 The Context

1.2.1 The USA of the 1980s

1.2.2 The Middle Class and Intersections with Race and Gender

“The Myth of the Middle Class”

Race and Class

Masculinity and Whiteness

1.2.3 Suburbia

Suburbia and Utopia

Postsuburbia

The (Post-) Suburban Home and the Tax Payers’ Revolt

Cultural Vacuum in a Consumption-Oriented Landscape

1.2.4 Skateboarding

Three Paradigms in Skateboard History

Surfing: From Ancient Hawaii to Suburban California

Dogtown: Surf and Skate Rebellion

After Dogtown: Skateboarding in the 1980s

1.2.5 Punk and Hardcore Punk

The 1980s as a Starting Point for Hardcore Punk

Hardcore Punk and the Suburban Middle Class

Race and Whiteness within Hardcore Punk Culture

Masculinity in Hardcore Punk

1.3 Conclusion

2 CONTENT

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 On Skate Punk

2.1.2 Skate Punk and Popular Culture

2.2 Skate and Hardcore Punk Lyrics in their Cultural Context: Between Banality and Blankness

2.2.1 Song Lyrics in a Postmodern Dialog

Space: Suburban Homes and Local Beaches

Class: Home Is Where?

Race: “White Minority” as a Subject Position in Hardcore Punk

Gender: Bored Boys and Skate Punk Lyrics

2.2.2 Conclusion: Beyond the Lyrics

2.3 Flyers: Skate Punk Art and Scribbled Handbills

2.3.1 Copied in Seconds

2.3.2 Flyer Genealogies: Historical Traces

2.3.3 Skulls, Skeletons, and the Bomb: Skate Punk Flyers in their Cultural Context

2.3.4 Conclusion: Flying Matters – The Material Component of Skate Punk Flyers

2.4 Thrasher: Skate Punk in Magazines

2.4.1 A Magazine with “Hardcore Spirit”

2.4.2 The First Issues: Radical Images and Skate Punk Fiction

2.4.3 Pools and Nightmares

2.4.4 Hegemonic Masculinity: Bikinis, Betties, and Wild Riders of Boards

Bikinis and Betties

Wild Riders of Boards

2.4.5 Conclusion: Established Patterns with a Hardcore Surface

2.5 Skate Punk Videos

2.5.1 Video (R)evolution

2.5.2 Skate Video Narratives: Old Tropes and a New Medium

Streets on Fire

Possessed to Skate

2.5.3 Conclusion: Moving On

2.6 Conclusion

3 CORPOREALITY

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Approaching the Concrete

3.3 Producing Presence through Skateboarding and Hardcore Punk

3.3.1 Adding “Volume”

3.3.2 Falling and Slamming

3.3.3 Producing a Suburban Seascape

3.3.4 Speeding Through Suburbia

3.3.5 The Grind of the Voice

3.4 Getting Closer

3.4.1 “Adrenaline Aesthetics” and the Reduction of Distance

3.4.2 Molecular Revolution

3.5 Conclusion: Grinding on the Most Tenuous Borders of Discourse

CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK: It’s All About Access

WORKS CITED

Books, Essays, Articles, Commentary

Films & Videos

Magazines and Newspapers

Personal Interviews

Songs