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Sexual and Physical Violence in Australian Punk and Hardcore Music Scenes by Ash Barnes is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sexual and Physical Violence in Australian Punk and Hardcore Music Scenes about?

Focused on the Australian punk and hardcore music scene, this book provides an innovative balance between the acknowledgement of harm and the celebration of pleasure in live music spaces. Despite decades of advocacy within vibrant music communities, stories of sexual and physical violence persist. Although anecdotally common in alternative music cultures, the interpretation and experiences of harm have remained absent from criminological analysis. Gradients of harm dictate and frame certain behaviour as ‘unacceptable’ or ‘encouraged’ under specific social conditions. As explored through qualitative research interviews and the author’s lived experience, violence within music scenes is a complex, personal, and collective experience. Issues such as discrimination, social inequality, stereotyping, and rape myth acceptance are instrumental in shaping how people in the punk and hardcore scenes fail to recognise, minimise, and dismiss violence in their community. This text questions how and why some people are ‘worthy’ or ‘unworthy’ victims of crime and why harmful behaviour continues within these spaces. Sexual and Physical Violence in Australian Punk and Hardcore Music Scenes will be of

Author

Ash Barnes

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2025

Language

EN