Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introducing DC Hardcore -- Bad Brains -- The Teen Idles and Minor Threat -- State of Alert (S.O.A) -- Government Issue (GI) -- Faith -- The Road Map: Chapter Outline -- 1 DC Rising: The (Musical) Life and Times of Washington, DC -- A Very Short History of DC -- DC in the Mid-20th Century -- The Sociopolitical Landscape -- Place, Class, and Race: A City Divided -- A Very Short History of DC Music -- Jazz In DC -- Bluegrass in DC -- DC's Other Musical Culture -- Go-Go -- First-Wave Punk in DC -- Hardcore is Born -- Part I: The Music of DC Hardcore -- 2 The Racial Aesthetics of DC Hardcore -- The Power of Noise: Hardcore as Jazz -- The Body and the Throat: Bad Brains as Blues -- The Unbearable Whiteness of Being -- Instrument(s) of Race: The (Re) Racing of Punk -- 3 The Sounds of Stratification: Socioeconomic Class and DC Hardcore -- Music as Class Stratification and Punk's Classed Status -- The Sound of Hardcore Punk as a Performance of Class -- The Paradox of Class and Class-Passing -- Lyrics as Anticonsumption -- 4 Masculinity as Music: DC Hardcore and the Implications of Gender -- State of Alert, Government Issue, and Faith: Hardcore's Sonic Masculinity -- Aggression As/And Masculinity: The Electric Guitar and Bass -- Aggression As/And Masculinity: The Drums -- Aggression As/And Masculinity: The Voice -- Aggression As/And Masculinity: The Lyrics -- Power, Control, and Agency as Masculinity -- Power, Control, and Agency as Masculinity: The Instruments -- Part II: The DC Hardcore Scene -- 5 Do-It-Yourself Cultural Production -- The DIY Ethos -- "Here's What You Get": DC Hardcore Flyers -- Cheap, Fast, and DC: Hardcore Zines -- Dischord Records -- 6 Straightedge: A (White, Male, Middle-Classed) Music-Based Social Movement.

The Intersectional Privilege of Straightedge -- Straightedge as Both Subculture and Social Movement -- 7 Embodying (White, Middle-Class) Masculinity: Fighting, Fashion, and Slam Dancing -- "A Warning to Enemies": DC Hardcore Hair and Fashion -- Masculinity and/as (Violent) Performance and Dance -- 8 The Transformation of Hardcore: DC Post-Hardcore, after 1983 -- Hardcore, Revisited: The (Sociopolitical) Evolution of Sound -- Tempo -- Melodies, Complexity, and Genre-Crossing -- (Emo)tional Vocals and Lyrics -- Overt Politics -- The Last Days of (Revolution) Summer: The Remnants of DC Hardcore -- The Evolution of Hardcore Nationwide -- DC Hardcore's Legacy -- Discography -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. DC Rising -- Chapter 2. The Racial Aesthetics of DC Hardcore -- Chapter 3. The Sounds of Stratification -- Chapter 4. Masculinity as Music -- Chapter 5. Do-It-Yourself Cultural Production -- Chapter 6. Straightedge -- Chapter 7. Embodying (White, Middle-Class) Masculinity -- Chapter 8. The Transformation of Hardcore -- Index.