East Coast Hardcore

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East Coast Hardcore
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Analyzing the Social Interactions in the Hardcore
scene

• Dancing and Fighting Hardcore Style
• Materialistic Theory (Fetterman 1998)
• Identity Formation (Brake 1985)
• Style
• Image, Demeanor, and Argot
• Phenomenological Approach (Fetterman 1998)
• Consolidating the Emic Etic Perspectives

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Hardcore Dancing/Kickboxing
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Hardcore Dancing/Kickboxing

• Emic Perspective
• To Release Aggression
• To Be An Active Part of the Music
• To Show Appreciation to the Band

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Hardcore Dancing/Kickboxing

• Etic Perspective
• Territoriality
• To Impress Ones Friends
• Spiritual Healing Through Dance (Hutson 1999)
• Breaking Free of Conformity (Turner Surace
  1997)

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Fighting in the Hardcore Scene
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Fighting in the Hardcore Scene

• Emic Perspective
• Cause of Fights
• Alternate Outlet of Aggression
• Protecting the Hardcore Family
• Battle Scars

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Fighting in the Hardcore Scene

• Etic Perspective
• Ritualized Reaffirming Ties of Loyalty
• Overt Hostile Crowd Behavior (Turner Surace
  1997)

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Works Cited

• Brake, Michael
• 1985 Comparative Youth Culture The Sociology
  of Youth Cultures and Youth Subcultures in
  America, Britain and Canada. Boston Routledge
  Kegan Paul.
• Fetterman, David M.
• 1998 Ethnography Step by Step. Thousand
  Oaks Sage Publications, Inc.
• Hutson, Scott R.
• The Rave Spiritual Healing in Modern Western
  Subcultures. Anthropological Quarterly 73(1)
  35-50.
• Turner, Ralph H., and Samuel J. Surace
• 1997 Zoot-Suiters and Mexicans Symbols in
  Crowd Behavior. In The Subcultures Reader. Ken
  Gelder and Sarah Thornton, eds. Pp. 379-387. New
  York Routledge.

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