Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 DC Rising: The (Musical) Life and Times of Washington, DC 15
PART I: THE MUSIC OF DC HARDCORE
2 The Racial Aesthetics of DC Hardcore 45
3 The Sounds of Stratification: Socioeconomic Class and DC Hardcore 70
4 Masculinity as Music: DC Hardcore and the Implications of Gender 97
PART II: THE DC HARDCORE SCENE
5 Do-It-Yourself Cultural Production 133
6 Straightedge: A (White, Male, Middle-Classed) Music-Based Social Movement 156
7 Embodying (White, Middle-Class) Masculinity 178
8 The Transformation of Hardcore: DC Post-Hardcore, Post-1983 199
Discography 237
Notes 239
Index 261