Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland
Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett
Abstract
Peoria, Illinois has long been a benchmark for the cautious and the conservative, a popular American test market for ideas, entertainment acts, and products. Beginning in the 1980s, hardcore punk rock bands “played in Peoria,” right alongside Reagan Republicanism and a series of factory closings. Spanning two decades and many waves of youth, this book explores how various misfits and outcasts repurposed elements of their deindustrializing city to promote local and touring bands, build social networks, and grapple with the possibilities and shortcomings of subcultural and countercultural politi ... More
Keywords: punk rock, Midwest, Youth, Counterculture, Subculture, Deindustrialization, Reagan, Illinois, Peoria, conservative
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252043802 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: January 2022 | DOI:10.5622/illinois/9780252043802.001.0001 |
