Ten Thousand Saints: First-Year Reading Initiative 2012

Full-text articles, log-in required:

• "Teen Idles" (New York Times Book Review)
• "First Fiction 2011" (Poets & Writers) [Eleanor Henderson material begins on p.45.]
• "SideKick with an Edge" (Washington Post)

Videos:

• Interview on the PBS NewsHour
  
• Reading on the PBS NewsHour
  
• Reading and talking at Strand Books (New York): part 1
• Reading and talking at Strand Books (New York): part 2
• Reading and talking at Strand Books (New York): part 3 
  

Audio:

• Interview on WICB

• Interview on the Leonard Lopate Show

• Interview on Vermont Public Radio

Web:

• Eleanorhenderson.net
• IC Faculty page
• Interview from The New Yorker
• Q & A with Washington Independent Review of Books
• Review form the San Francisco Chronicle
• Interview from The Magazine of Yoga
• Q & A in Iris

Full-text articles, log-in required:

• "Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, and Parenting: Research through the 1980s"  A 1990 summary of research from the preceding decade. 
• "Explaining demographic trends in teenage fertility, 1980-1995"  Turns out "family disruption" was a factor in the late 80s spike.
• "American Youth in the 1980s"  See especially the sections on School, Sex, and Drug and Alcohol Abuse.  
• "Today's Families and Today's Children:  A Snapshot"  A 1993 Collection of statistics highlighting changes in American families from the 50s through the 80s. 
• '"The Most Difficult Decision": New York Times article on young mothers struggling with abortiion, parenting, and adoption decisions, based on cases from the late 80s.
• "Adoption vs. Parenting: No Difference in Short-Term Effects on Young Mothers": Short report based on research from the late 1980s.

Book, IC Library print collection:

• To have and to hold : marriage, the baby boom, and social change: The view from 2000.
• Divided Families: What Happens to Children When Parents Part: The view from 1991.

Full text articles, log-in required:

• "Overview of Selected Drug Trends"  A 1989 compendium of statistics focusing on the 70s and 80s, with particular attention given to high school age youth. 
• "Family Structure as a Predictor of Initial Substance Use and Sexual Intercourse in Early Adolescence"  Research (data from 85-87) on the correlation between "nonintact families" and drug use.  
• "Reefer Madness"  Atlantic Monthly cover story from 1994 that provides a good overview of use, trade, and prosecution in America during 70s and 80s.
• "A Bumper Crop of Hothouse Marijuana"  A Newsweek paragraph from 1988 indicating that Les was part of a national trend.
• "Inhalants: Dangerous highs"  A brief account of huffing.
• "Inhalants: the instant, but deadly high"  Aimed at the nursing community, but with a useful summary of information.

Full text e-book, log-in required:

• Cannabis and Young People : Reviewing the Evidence  A contemporary overview.

                                                         Punk, Hardcore, Straight Edge

Full text articles, log-in required:

• "Rules of Rebellion: Slamdancing, Moshing, and the American Alternative Scene"  See in particular the section titled "Hardcore and the New York City Straight Edge Ideology of Rebellion."
• "God Save the Queen (Amen)"   A survey of the punk scene from 1977 to 2000, with a good deal to say about hardcore and straight edge.
• "Revenge Against Boredom"   Jocko Wayland recounts how in the 80s punk, hardcore, and skateboarding changed his life.
•  "White Mutants of Straight Edge: The Avant-Garde of Abstinence"  A recent article with a good deal to say about the 80s.
• "Re-imagining being 'Straight' in Straight Edge"  Useful for its "Historical Background."
• "The Straight Edge Subculture: Examining the Youths' Drug-free Way"  Treats straight edge subculture as an object of ethnographic research, so a very academic approach, but the "field work" provides some interesting information.
• "Manhood in Contradiction: The Two Faces of Straight Edge"   Another ethnographic approach, but with a focus on gender roles.

Full-text e-books, log-in required:

• White Boys, White Noise : Masculinities and 1980s Indie Guitar Rock  Covers punk and straight edge. 
• Hardcore Living for the Revolution: Hardcore, Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics  
• Straight Edge : Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, and Social Change 

Books, IC Library print collection:

• Punks : a guide to an American subculture  
• In the fascist bathroom : punk in pop music, 1977-1992
• Rip it up and start again : postpunk 1978-1984
• CBGB & OMFUG : thirty years from the home of underground rock  
• Love goes to buildings on fire : five years in New York that changed music  
• American hardcore : a tribal history 
• Radio silence : a selected visual history of American hardcore music  
• Touch and go : the complete hardcore punk zine '79-'83  
• All ages : reflections on straight edge  
• Straightedge youth : complexity and contradictions of a subculture 
• Customizing the body : the art and culture of tattooing

DVD:

• American hardcore: the history of American punk rock 1980-1986  

Web:

• Virtual tour of CBGB  Be sure to click on the photos for 360 degree panoramas.
• New York Punk and Hardcore Archive: Mainly a photographic record of the flyers and posters advertising shows.
• Hardcore Punk in the Face of Reagan's America  Created by an American Studies seminar at William and Mary in 2007.  
• From Sexual Revolution to Straight Edge: Turning Habit into Action in Youth Culture : A senior Honors thesis in Philosophy at Xavier University, this is notable for discussing straight edge as a response to the "sexual revolution" of the 60s--and for its attempt to relate straight edge culture to Immanuel Kant!

As reported in the New York Times, log-in required:

Before:

• "Two Visions Vie In the East Village: The New East Village: Loisaida or Alphabet City?" (New York Times 05/17/87)

• "Where Liberals Feel Under Siege From Homeless: The Lower East Side"  (New York Times 11/11/87)

The Riot:

• "Behind the Park Melee, a New Generation Gap: The fighting is tied to noise, the homeless and a social schism"  (New York Times 08/08/88)

• "Class Struggle Erupts Along Avenue B"  (New York Times 08/10/88)

• "Lessons of 60's Forgotten in Park Riot"  (New York Times 08/11/88)

• "Complaints Accuse Police Of Wild, Random Brutality"  (New York Times 08/12/88)

• "Neighborhood of Vigorous Opinions: In East Village, Vigor and Disparity One band is seeking social rejects" (New York Times 08/13/88)

• "Melee in Tompkins Sq. Park: Violence and Its Provocation"  (New York Times 08/14/88)

After:

• "Living in Legal Limbo in Manhattan's Ghost Housing"  (New York Times 05/11/89)

• "Tent City in Tompkins Square Park Is Dismantled by Police"  (New York Times 12/15/89)

Books, IC Library print collection:

• From urban village to east village : the battle for New York's Lower East Side
  
• Resistance : a radical political and social history of the Lower East Side
• Alphabet city
• Alphaville : 1988, crime, punishment, and the battle for New York City's lower East Side
• Tompkins Square Park

Web:

• Tompkins Square Park: The "Police Riot" Tape Timeline: Paul DeRienzo's archive of audio tapes and articles.
• Christodora House: Take a peek inside this Tompkins Park symbol of gentrification.

Videos:

• Tompkins Square Park Riot: Photomontage and commentary.
• Tompkins Square Park Riot: Brief video.
• 20 year Anniversary Commentary, part 1
• 20 year Anniversary Commentary, part 2
• The Gentrification of Alphabet City: Interviews, commentary.

Books, IC Library print collection:

• Inside the Hare Krishna movement
  
• Miracle on Second Avenue : Hare Krishna arrives in the west

Full text e-books, log-in required:

• The Hare Krishna movement
  
• Hare Krishna transformed

Full text articles, log-in required:

• "The Hare Krishna and the counterculture in the light of the theory of divergent modes of religiosity"
• "In Search of Identity within the Hare Krishna Movement : Memory, Oblivion and Thought Style"  A scholarly inquiry.

Web Resources:

• iskon.org  The official Hare Krishna Movement site.
• Laws of Manu   Hindu text referred to by Johnny and Jude.

Books, IC Library print collection:

• And the band played on : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic: First published in 1987, this is still the definitive history of the AIDS epidemic in its early years.
• AIDS : the burdens of history: the view from 1988.
• History of AIDS : emergence and origin of a modern pandemic: the view from 1990.
• AIDS in the 1980s: the view from 1991.
• Bearing witness : Gay Men's Health Crisis and the politics of AIDS: the view from 1993.

Full text e-book, log-in required:

• The Social Impact of AIDS in the United States (1993) See chapter 9: "The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in New York City"

Full text article, log-in required:

• "AIDS and Traditions of Homophobia"  Richard Poirier's reflections from 1988.

     

Preparation Session for Faculty Facilitators: 

• When: 1:30-3:00, Tuesday August 21
• Where: Clark Lounge

Introduction to Ten Thousand Saints & Discussion for First Year Students

• When: 10:00-12:00, Tuesday, August 28
• Where: Hill Center (Ben LIght Gymnasium) 

      

A selection of bands and songs mentioned in Ten Thousand Saints.

Agnostic Front:

• 1983 EP of "United Blood"
• CBGB in 1985 + interviews
  
• Albany 1988 
  
• Last matinee at CBGB 2006
  

Youth of Today:

• Live free (1988)
• No More--Straight Edge ode to vegetarianism.

Gorilla Biscuits:

• Complete set at Anthrax, 1988
• "New Direction" Germany, 1989
• "Degredation" Buffalo, 1990
  

Warzone:

• "Crazy but Not Insane" CBGB, 1988
• Complete set CBGB 1988
  
• "Under 18" E.P.
  
• "War Between the Races" E.P.
  

Project X:

• "Straight Edge Revenge" recorded version
  
• Set at Anthrax from 1988
  
• "Dance Floor Justice" recorded version
  

Teen Idles:

• Minor Disturbance E.P.
  
• "Deadhead" live 1980
  

Minor Threat:

• "Straight Edge" live
  
• Live 1983
  

7 Seconds:

• "Young Till I Die" recorded version
  
• "Here's Your Warning" live 1984
  
• Live in L.A. 

Verbal Assault:

• Live 1988
• "Trial" recorded version
  

No For An Answer:

• Live at CBGB 1989
  
• "You Laugh" E.P.
  

Bold:

• "Nailed to the X" recorded version
  
• "Clear" live 1988

Missing Foundation:

• "Your House is Mine" recorded version
  
• "1933" recorded version
  

Black Flag:

• "Rise Above" live 1984
• "My War" live 1985
  

Bad Brains:

• "Against I" CBGB 2006 Jude attends the 3rd and final night of their farewell concerts at CBGBs, but this video from the previous night provides a better sample.

Paul Simon:

• "50 ways to Leave Your Lover" live

Beatles:

• Hey Jude

Burlington, Vermont
(basis for Lintonburg)


St. Marks Place, New York


Avenue B


County  BlueGrass  Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers


Tompkins Square Park Riot


Srila Prabhupada in Tompkins Square Park in 1966, the year he founded the Hare Krishna Movement