Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and Sound - Softcover

Brian Peterson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1889703028 ISBN 13: 9781889703022

Publisher: Revelation Records Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Although some define hardcore as a specific sound, most believe it's more than that; a set of varying ideas, ethics, principles, attitudes and, yes, music, that converge to form a community. Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution In Ethics, Politics, Spirit, And Sound by Brian Peterson provides some answers, but also brings up a whole new set of questions for those who've been drawn to the scene's political, social, ethical and spiritual ideas amidst the screamed vocals and abrasive chords. Burning Fight features commentary from approximately 150 people involved in the nineties hardcore scene as well as oral history articles about straight edge, politics, vegetarianism and interviews with a variety of influential bands such as Avail, Burn, Earth Crisis, Inside Out, Integrity, Los Crudos, Spitboy, Strife, Texas Is The Reason, Unbroken and more.

Features interviews with:
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Avail
Burn
Cave In
Coalesce
Damnation A.D.
Deadguy
Disembodied
Downcast
Earth Crisis
Endpoint
Groundwork
Guilt
Inside Out
Integrity
Los Crudos
Mouthpiece
Racetraitor
Ressurection
Rorshcach
Shelter
Spitboy
Split Lip/Chamberlain
Strife
Swing Kids
Texas Is The Reason
Threadbare
Trial
Unbroken
Undertow
Vegan Reich

About this title

About the Author

Brian Peterson was born in Minot, North Dakota, and moved to the Quad-Cities (Illinois/Iowa border) in his mid-teens where he became active in the Midwest hardcore scene, which impacted his life in innumerable ways. He has written about music and film for a variety of publications such as Thrasher, Punk Planet, Skyscraper, Copper Press, and American Music Press since 2001. He is also a high school English teacher. Aside from his freelance writing he is also working on several short stories, novels and other hardcore related projects. He currently lives in the Chicago area.

Edition details

• Publisher: Revelation Records Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1889703028
• ISBN 13: 9781889703022
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 499