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Love and Rage: Autonomy in Mexico City's Punk Scene
English language study of the punk scene in Mexico City
Love and Rage is a deeply ethnographic account of punk in Mexico City as it is lived and practiced, connecting the sounds of punk music to different styles of political action. Through compelling first-person accounts, ethnographer Kelley Tatro shows that punk is more than music. It is a lifestyle choice that commits scene participants to experimentation with anarchist politics. Key to that process is the concept of autogestión ("self-management"), a term with deep history in local leftist politics. In detailed vignettes, grounded in historical, social, and political frames, the book shows how punk-scene sounds and practices foster autogestión through intensely affective experiences, understood as manifestations of love and rage. Drawing on the history of anarchism in Mexico City, as well as social movement scholarship, Love and Rage details the pleasures and problems of using music as a tool for creating an autonomous politics. Includes 25 photographs from photographer Yaz "Punk" Núñez.
Love and Rage is a deeply ethnographic account of punk in Mexico City as it is lived and practiced, connecting the sounds of punk music to different styles of political action. Through compelling first-person accounts, ethnographer Kelley Tatro shows that punk is more than music. It is a lifestyle choice that commits scene participants to experimentation with anarchist politics. Key to that process is the concept of autogestión ("self-management"), a term with deep history in local leftist politics. In detailed vignettes, grounded in historical, social, and political frames, the book shows how punk-scene sounds and practices foster autogestión through intensely affective experiences, understood as manifestations of love and rage. Drawing on the history of anarchism in Mexico City, as well as social movement scholarship, Love and Rage details the pleasures and problems of using music as a tool for creating an autonomous politics. Includes 25 photographs from photographer Yaz "Punk" Núñez.
232 pages, Paperback
Published November 8, 2022
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January 23, 2023
This book is a careful and effective blend of the historical, political, and personal. Because the author made friends and participated in the Mexico City punk scene herself, her account of how punk relates to anarchism is firmly rooted both in scholarly research and first-hand reporting. Tatro shows how both punk "rage" and punk "love" variously manifest in performance, activism, and dissent, but also in community, mutual aid, and explorations of autonomy. All is set into a historical, global context that helps make sense of the local scene and its participants.
Love and Rage draws the reader along through periodic "seeds" - that is, mostly personal anecdotes that serve to plant an idea as an introduction to the section that follows and that are meant to inspire the reader to "germinate" their own active learning. I don't know about that, but I looked forward to each seed - in fact, I'd like to read an entire book just on Tatro's personal experiences in Mexico City.
Altogether, the book is an engaging read on a fascinating topic.
Love and Rage draws the reader along through periodic "seeds" - that is, mostly personal anecdotes that serve to plant an idea as an introduction to the section that follows and that are meant to inspire the reader to "germinate" their own active learning. I don't know about that, but I looked forward to each seed - in fact, I'd like to read an entire book just on Tatro's personal experiences in Mexico City.
Altogether, the book is an engaging read on a fascinating topic.
Displaying 1 of 1 review