For punk rockers music and art have often been used as tools for resisting and accommodating
the interests of society's dominant classes. During the late 1970s a predominantly white male
working middle-class counterculture began to develop what is now known as punk rock. This book
shows how punk rock serves to both subvert and accommodate the interest of late-capitalist
American society by looking at the trends in the ideas values and beliefs transmitted through
punk lyrical messages specifically through the content of three punk record labels and how
they have evolved over time. The impact of punk will continue because it is a product of the
changing face of alternative cultural spaces - spaces that impact and are impacted by
increasingly hostile and exploitive relationships between and within oppressor and oppressed
groups.
