| dc.description.abstract | In recent years, scholars have begun to attend to the gap in our understanding of
the relationship between music and social movements. One such example is Corte’s and Edwards’
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3124">“White Power Music and the Mobilization of Racist Social
Movements”</a>. Our research shares the perspective of Corte and Edwards (2008)
which emphasizes the centrality of music to social movement organizations,
especially in terms of resource mobilization, but rather than look at how punk
music was used as an instrument by an external social movement like the White
Power movement, we look at how punks themselves joined social movements and
altered the dynamics of the movements they joined. We also provide examples of
punk involvement in left wing social movements to emphasize the indeterminate
nature of punk politics. We examine two such cases: the Rock Against Racism
movement in the U.K., and the Peace movement in the U.S. In both cases, punks
made use of their independent media as a means to provide an infrastructure for
mobilization of resources to sustain the punks’ involvement in these social
movements and the unique framing provided by punks, which altered the dynamic
of the movements they joined. What makes punk an interesting case is that the
“do-it-yourself” ethic of independent media construction that was at the centre of
the punk movement made it possible for punks to make connections to various
other social movements as well as alter the dynamics of those social movements. In
these cases, punk music was not used as a means toward an end, but rather punks
themselves had a significant impact on these movements both in terms of resource
mobilization and frame alignment. | en_GB |
