Straight, narrow and dull: the failure of protest in straight edge rock ’n’ roll

doi:10.4324/9781351218061-14

ABSTRACT

Some people say punk is dead. I don’t know if that’s true – but I do know for sure that protest music lives. (Tomas Squip of Fidelity Jones (1987), quoted in Andersen and Jenkins, 2001, p. 256)