Hardcore Books, Read em,' love em'

In my journey to get to the bottom of Hardcore Punk as a genre of course I did some reading to really get a more in depth look at what others feel this genre means. These are some of the books that I have looked at so far!

Straight Edge: Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, And Social Change by Ross Haenfler

This book goes in depth about the straight edge part of the hardcore scene. Straight edge simply means you don’t drink, you don’t do drugs, you don’t smoke, and you don’t have promiscuous relations with people, you basically live the cleanest life style…but this movement is also where the violence started among the hardcore scene. It was simply a group of people trying to make their mark and they truly did but not in the best way, they have shown extreme violence especially at shows towards those who do not live the same lifestyle as them, this is how it originally was but in present day straight edge has defiantly strayed away from what it used to be.

Hardcore California: A history of Punk and new wave by Peter Belsito

This book looks at hardcore music in the bigger picture, it talks about all of the elements of a hardcore scene or “Family” and how it started and where it originally came from, this book I have read multiple times and I still find it very interesting.

Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-’83 by Tesco Vee

This zine was a lot of fun to look at because it was like looking at pictures from when I was younger and went to shows, it was a great throwback. It was also so awesome to read about the old bands that I did not personally get to experience.

Out Of Vogue: Hardcore Punk Live Shots by Patrick baclet

The pictures in this book are epic and like in my earlier blog… Pictures rule the world and show you a deeper meaning.

…These books were all very interesting and helped me learn more on this subject that I already thought that I knew a lot about which made it really interesting and it defiantly cleared some of the cloudiness of getting to the real meaning of this genre.