Through a combination of oral history and extensive imagery, the book proves that even though the Southern California beach towns might have created the look and style of hardcore punk, it was the Detroit scene-along with a handful of other cities across the country-that cultivated the music’s grassroots aesthetic before most cultural hot spots around the globe even knew what the music was about. Author TONY RETTMAN’s Why Be Something That You’re Not chronicles the first wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late seventies to its demise in the mid-eighties. It took a gaggle of suburban skateboarders, a grade school teacher and a census bureau clerk to wake this city up from its slumber and start one of the first hardcore punk scenes in America. Detroit’s most known musical export at the time was the vapid sounds of New Wave heartthrobs The Romantics this wasn’t good. But by the early eighties, the city was both a physical and cultural wasteland due to major label buyouts of the artists as well as the crippling drug habits of some of the others. Everything from the chart topping sounds of Motown Records to the vicious proto-punk of The Stooges was being brewed out there and it seemed like there was no end in sight. (Listen to me now, tough like yard ooh.) Weh dem nuh know a grass rooot… (They didn't know it's the grass root) Aaah.NOW AVAILABLE!!! In the early seventies, Detroit was the musical hub of America.
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