Field Study Proposal

For my Individual Learning Contract (ILC) i will be conducting throughout the month of February a study on the counter-culture of punk and punk music around and in between the Olympia and greater Seattle areas. I will also be studying the start of punk culture, derived from punk music and try to figure out what is so important about this particular culture to these people, why they do the things they do and why they choose to live this sub culture lifestyle. Another piece of immersion in this ILC is that i would like to include is the immersion in the music and lyrics itself, studying various different artists from the 90s to the 2000s and possibly see the changes or similarities between the culture and sound of now and then. What i would hope to experience in this immersion is the link between counter and sub cultures with society, and from that the tie to government, which would (in theory) affect the sub-culture. I am connecting poetry to this ILC by immersing myself in this culture and simply writing about it based on feeling and experience. Punk music is very emotionally evoking music, so i am hoping to feel the music and translate it into poetry.

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ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

• co – week 8 log March 6, 2013 February 24th 7 hours – Interviewing Tammy and Quinten Butler February 25th 3 hours reading – Hebdige 3 hours – writing term paper 2 hours – listening to music February 26th 1.5 hours – watching “who killed ...
• co- week 7 log February 25, 2013 February 17th 4 hours – reading (Hebdige) 4 hours – listening to music February 18th 4 hours – reading (Debord) 2 hours – taking notes (Debord) February 19th 4 hours – writing poetry February 20th 2 hours – looking for shows 2 hours ...
• co- week 6 log February 18, 2013 February 10th 3 hours – researching Oi! 4 hours – listening to Oi! (The 4- skins, Dropkick Murphys, The Exploited, The Opressed, Mr Floppy, Slaughter and the Dogs, U.S. Chaos) February 11th 4 hours – reading (Biel) 2 ...
• co-week 5 log January 23, 2013 February 3rd 2.5 hours – researching bands and documentaries February 4th 4 hours – reading (Biel) 2 hour – going through highlighted areas and taking notes (Biel) February 5th 5 hours – listening to music ( Bikini Kill, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, Choking ...

Bachelardian Reverie

• Bachelard Reverie # 4 February 27, 2013   This anarchy runs through my veins, the fibers of my being  secrete rebellion and aspiration for justice. These streets speak to me, evoking an emotion only known as anarchy. Anarchy for order is the way ...
• Bachelard Reverie #3 February 21, 2013 “Attached to an odor memory, a childhood smells good.” (140)   a reverie; a state of being much like daydream or musing.   i was thinking of you. i walked past that empty lot ...
• Co Bachelard Reverie #2 February 13, 2013 “The most virile man, too simply characterized by a strong animus, also has an anima– an anima which can have paradoxical manifestations. In the same way, the most feminine woman also has psychic ...
• Co Bachelard Reverie #1 January 30, 2013  “a word can be a dawn and a sure shelter.” (47) Je Suis La Lune Je suis la lune et j’taime. throughout the night, the night i first caught the light in your ...

Poetry

• I hold no value to you Have we all been morphed into sheep? Waiting in line to be stripped naked, our pink flesh exposed to the cold chill of reality. This makes us more vulnerable, more likely to ...
• Punk Is… Punk is the freedom to write this fucking poem any way I want to, Who are they to try and tell me I can’t? Does it threaten ones sensibilities so much? They’re just ...
• THE PUNK PIT we dance like animals fighting, kicking and screaming in close quarters. the group smells of stale beer and cigarettes and anything else we’re wearing that doesn’t get washed. boots clash on boots and spikes scrape ...
• Unoriginal Genius: Anarchy For The U.K. UNORIGINAL GENIUS: ANARCHY FOR THE U.K. Anarchy for the U.K. Is this the MPLA? or is this the UDA? or is this the IRA? I thought it was the U.K. How many ways to get what ...

Poetry Observed

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Term Paper Abstract

Fall:

We are always looking for something to gain, but maybe the easiest way to gain what we are looking for is located in all the things that we don’t understand. Knowledge is rich with all the answers to the world. When confronted with something we do not understand we must battle to gain the most knowledge about that subject as we can in order to fully understand it. You must see it from many angles and many perspectives to really truly gain full understanding. In gaining these understandings you will gain the understanding of the world.

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Winter: 

“It was not a genre of music, it was more discontent with how things had flowed and unemployment in the U.K. at that time.” Quinten Butler.

            When looking at the term “Punk” what comes to mind? Is it a fashion? A culture? A type of music? Maybe it’s just the grimy kid sitting on the side of the street smoking a cigarette in a studded vest. When going through an exploration of punk music you begin to realize and understand that it is not just a song, it’s a statement. In every chord there is a story, in every word spoken there is a history. The deeper you get into this type of counter-culture the more you understand what things like Anarchy for the U.K. really mean. Establishment controlling society to the point of forcing the development of this counter-culture is where punk really came from. It wasn’t music; it was a movement against the establishment. 

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