Word: punk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...self-aggrandizement's sake, Gutterboy describes itself as: Active, tough, indifferent, [and] sexy" on the cover of its second album, St. Stanislaus of East 7th. Alongside this character analysis is a photograph of the five musicians standing on a city street, all cloaked in Black army boots and urban-punk regalia...
Country is also benefiting from the determined eclecticism of the twentysomething generation. At a Nashville concert by country hunk Alan Jackson, Brandi Byrd, 19, arrived with her hair teased into a punk sculpture, wearing a replica of an artfully threadbare Aerosmith outfit. At home she puts her Jackson and Brooks tapes alongside the work of groups like Whitesnake, Poison and Motley Crue. Says Julie Hall, a 23-year-old clerk at TNN: "I'm just as likely to buy the Black Crowes as I am to buy a Travis Tritt tape. I like good music. I don't care what...
...music they produce is strictly funk. The image they project is California punk. But the quality of the product is anything but junk...
Even within this community, Jeffries has been extremely offensive. He has charged that DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, is a "faggot and a punk." This attitude is disgusting and has no reasonable place in an institution like Harvard...
...hatemonger. He believes in bogus, discredited theories that link skin pigmentation and climate to personality traits. He cites white conspiracies as the roots of African-Americans' problems. Anyone who disagrees with him is liable to be dismissed as Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was--as "a faggot and a punk...