Word: punks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what? Punk poets came and went, Kurt Cobain chief among them, and a folk-rock movement arose again--neo-folkies like Beck, Indigo Girls, Laura Love, all charged with youth but drawing on the past. Where was Dylan? His albums in the '90s have been mostly cautious retoolings--CDs laden with aged, unreleased material or dusty covers of traditional folk songs...
...been regaining strength. At the 25th anniversary of Woodstock in 1994, on his MTV Unplugged album in 1995 and in concert recently at Jones Beach, outside New York City, Dylan displayed a renewed focus and grace. He has also been touring with stars of the new folkie set--punk-folk rocker Ani DiFranco and pop-folk star Jewel have opened his shows. One wonders: Does he stand in the wings and watch these young women perform? What does he feel as he sees his son Jakob, of the folk-rock band the Wallflowers, ascend the charts? Does he see where...
Other highlights of the reading list: "Intimacy, labor and class: Ideologies of feminine sexuality in the Punk slam dance;" "Guido: Fashioning an Italian-American Youth Style;" and "Jocks and Freaks: The symbolic structure of the expression of social interaction among American high school students...
...Lovely is the tale of two souls who are "mentally and emotionally retarded," Nick Cassavetes says. "They have one talent: they can love each other really good." Eddie, a small-time punk, is away when the pregnant Maureen is assaulted by a neighbor. Driven nuts by the news of her beating, he shoots a paramedic and is hospitalized for 10 years. In the interim, Maureen has married Joey (John Travolta), but that doesn't matter to Eddie when he gets out. He just wants his honey back...
From Claremont, Calif., Darnielle and his arrangements are never what they seem to be. He creates what appear to be simple folk songs with minimal instrumentation, yet his melodies are never mellow or folky. More urgent and driving than amny guitar heavy bands, his music is more punk than crunchy. In fact, the Mountain Goats emerged from the lo-fi movement swelling in southern California in the early '90s that set itself on forging simultaneously sloppiness and precision...