Dr. Kevin Mattson with his new book on punk rock.
The Nation writer Samuel Zipp reviews Dr. Kevin Mattson’s xxx in an article headlined The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk.
Mattson’s book begins and ends with Cobain’s death, but it’s really a kind of coda to the larger story he hopes to tell. It’s an indicator of the stakes of his fundamental argument: the little-understood punk rock world that nurtured Cobain was at the heart of a generation’s attempt to create an ethics, a politics, and a culture to counteract the brazen commercial sheen of the neoliberal Reagan era ’80s.
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