Sexual and Physical Violence in Australian Punk and Hardcore Music Scenes

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-75638-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media

Focused on the Australian punk and hardcore music scene, this book provides an innovative balance between the acknowledgement of harm and the celebration of pleasure in live music spaces.

Despite decades of advocacy within vibrant music communities, stories of sexual and physical violence persist. Although anecdotally common in alternative music cultures, the interpretation and experiences of harm have remained absent from criminological analysis. Gradients of harm dictate and frame certain behaviour as ‘unacceptable’ or ‘encouraged’ under specific social conditions. As explored through qualitative research interviews and the author’s lived experience, violence within music scenes is a complex, personal, and collective experience.

Issues such as discrimination, social inequality, stereotyping and rape myth acceptance are instrumental in shaping how people in the punk and hardcore scenes fail to recognise, minimize, and dismiss violence in their community. This text questions how and why some people are ‘worthy’ or ‘unworthy’ victims of crime, and why harmful behaviour continues within these spaces.

Sexual and Physical Violence in Australian Punk and Hardcore Music Scenes will be of interest to researchers in the field of criminology and sociology but is also applicable to a wider academic audience interested in violence, deviance, and subcultures.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnes, Ash

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1 Pleasure in the pit; 2 Micro-aggressive yet politically progressive; 3 Physical violence; 4 Sexual violence; 5 Rape, part 1 – the rapist in the crowd; 6 Rape myths, part 2 – men as undeserving victims; 7 Sexual violence, social power, and cultural capital; 8 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Ash Barnes is a research fellow at the University of Tasmania, Australia. They have expertise and interest in the fields of sexual violence and physical violence, deviance, and pleasure.