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One that you might like is, we're not here to entertain.

Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America, by Kevin Matson.

The 1980s produce some of the most creative works of Punk Rock,

not just the music of bands like The Minute Men in the Dead Kennedys,

but also visual arts, literature, poetry, and film.

Historian and co-founder of DC's Positive Force, Kevin Matson,

documents how widespread the punk movement became,

recounting its anarchism, DIY ethos, and art of dissent.

A Samuel Zipp wrote in the nation about Matson's book,

Punk stride both unruly provocation and grassroots community building.

The noise they unleashed still reverberates today,

waiting to set off future provocation from people and places as yet unknown.

We're not here to entertain.

Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America, by Kevin Matson,

out now from Oxford University Press.

Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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