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DC and Paris: Capitals of Punk

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This chapter introduces the punk landscapes of Washington, DC, and Paris, drawing upon the relationships punk enjoys with geography as well as social theory. It also discusses the crucial context of circulation, scenes, and how punk music and culture spread via performers, zines, and recordings.

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    The official zine archive online catalog is available to the public online at http://digital.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/actions.DisplayEADDoc.do?source=Mdu.ead.scpa.0195.xml

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Sonnichsen, T. (2019). DC and Paris: Capitals of Punk. In: Capitals of Punk. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5968-2_2

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