...Barbara Browning “This Balaclava Is Too Hot” is a narrative account of the author’s experiences presenting material in public forums on the relationship between faith, feminism, and aesthetics in the work of Pussy Riot. While US audiences have tended to sympathize with the anti-Putin political...

...Patrick Deer The embrace of the city in ruins was a familiar rallying cry of punk music. From Public Image Limited’s evocation of an urban subject murdered in the countryside while “the cassette played poptones,” to the Clash’s raucous calls for “a riot of our own,” to dub-influenced declarations...

..., straight edge, hardcore, homocore, riot grrrl, grunge, Afro-­punk, emo, and beyond. Origin stories continue to proliferate as successive generations of musicians and cultural critics seek to claim punk’s sites of origin, “true legacies...

... of Gujarat, India, the Muslim survivors of the riots continue to live in squalid and makeshift camps whose existence the state government flatly denies and the international community largely ignores. The Gujarat government’s outright dismissal...

... this: in May 1977, as the Clash launched their “White Riot” tour in support of their first LP, CBS Records released the single “Remote Control” over the band’s vociferous objections. In response, the Clash’s follow-­up single, “Complete Control,” rhetorically...

... windows, giving riot police an excuse to strike hard against demonstrators and spray the city center with poisonous chemicals. This “ritual of rebellion,” where political agency is conceived as limited material antistatist action, has been formalized in recent political culture into a theatrical...

..., rumors grew fast”; locals thought that the police had killed the boys.48 It is not clear what kind of mistake, if mistake is even the right word, this conclusion is. The riots that ensued lasted for two weeks and spread to several other parts of France and Belgium. There was a genuine...

... to the punk scenes from which it had emerged.15 Something about emo, it seemed, had made it particularly illegible to understand in rela- tion to other genres, despite the fact that emo’s ties to the punk, hardcore, straight edge, queercore, and riot grrrl...

... period. A bloody race riot in Saint-Pierre gains European core an offi cial decree of emancipation, yet unequal property relations remain undisturbed by abolition. of the city. Marie-Sophie’s narrative of her father’s life emphasizes the continuity...

... on Bombay has emerged in the wake of the perceived dissolution in the 1990s of Bombay’s iconic status as the nation’s cosmopolitan center.5 The dissolution was marked violently by the riots of late 1992 and early 1993, in which...

..., was destroyed as the culmination of a massive act of Hindu fascist political theater, provoking riots in the subcontinent and beyond. The conflicts in Lajja are entangled with this complex political, cultural, and historical web, which shaped the develop- ment of Indian, Pakistani/Bangladeshi, Muslim...

... Riot of Sistema explains. “It wasn’t born on congas and bongos, as some traditional folk-music. It was kids making straight-up dance-music from, like, ’96. Playing this new music, this new African music, that feels straight-up political in itself...

...: A South Korean Social Movement (University of California Press), Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots (with John Lie, Harvard Uni- versity Press), The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Talk, and Class in Con- temporary South Korea (University of Hawai‘i Press), and Gender, Genre...

...” as a concept defined by, and useful to, those excluded by more proscriptive uses of the term. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Tricky and the Bug: Dub, Punk, and the Abject Jayna Brown In August 2011, a riot shook London and its outlying boroughs for days. Following the shooting of a young...

... 65.02 Silverstein 11/8/00 2:24 PM Page 31 through the appearance in certain of these pictures of French riot police. The French state Through these technical means, the authors and editors transform the everyday statement of faith, “There is but one god, God...

... by the Rodney riots of 1968. Though these “stories” and “moments” are, of course, united in the fi ctional moment and story of the fi lm, I argue that the audience experiences them as distinct, just as a musical performance depends...

... collective Pussy Riot were arrested for playing just a few seconds of their song “Punk Prayer: Mother of God Drive Putin Away” in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior in 2011. This performance led to the arrest and prosecution of three of their members and received substantial international attention...

.... France calls this “comunitarism” and says that it promotes ghettos, exclusion, poverty, race riots, and religious extremism that can ultimately lead to actions such as the London bombings. French Equal Opportunities Minister Azouz Begag has urged the government to overturn...

... known Pramoedya since my Prague time and his Prague visit in the 1960s, but I saw him in his new house for the first time in 1998.31 This was a moment of riots in Jakarta, and I was advised not to use the usual Blue Bird taxi...

... to at least one of the queens Warhol found so exciting looking, the well-­known activist Marsha P. Johnson.9 A key figure at the 1969 Stonewall riots (the protest against police harassment that is generally understood to have sparked the gay liberation movement), perhaps even the queen who threw...