Love and Rage: Autonomy in Mexico Citys Punk Scene (Music (2022)

Love and RageAutonomy in Mexico City's Punk Scene\nAuthor(s): Kelley Tatro\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Wesleyan University Press, United States\nImprint: Wesleyan University Press\nISBN-13: 9780819580948, 978-0819580948\nSynopsis\nLove and Rage is a deeply ethnographic account of punk in Mexico City as it is lived and practiced, connecting the sounds of punk music to different styles of political action. Through compelling first-person accounts, ethnographer Kelley Tatro shows that punk is more than music. It is a lifestyle choice that commits scene participants to experimentation with anarchist politics. Key to that process is the concept of autogestin (\""self-management\""), a term with deep history in local leftist politics. In detailed vignettes, grounded in historical, social, and political frames, the book shows how punk-scene sounds and practices foster autogestin through intensely affective experiences, understood as manifestations of love and rage. Drawing on the history o.