Starting in 1981 via Minor Threat's revolutionary call to arms, the clean and positive straight edge hardcore punk movement took hold and prospered during the 1

Examining the multigenerational impact of punk rock music, this international survey of the political-punk straight edge movement - which has persisted as a dru

Straight edge is a clean-living youth movement that emerged from the punk rock subculture in the early 1980s. Its basic tenets promote a drug-free, tobacco-free

In this first in-depth sociological analysis of the movement, Ross Haenfler follows the lives of dozens of straight-edge youths, showing how for these young men

As religion has retreated from its position and role of being the glue that holds society together, something must take its place. Utilising a focused and detai