Strange Notes from the LA Punk Underground
The Durability of Darby Crash and the Germs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8896050 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Robert Lamont Brown (corresponding author), Peter Robert Brown |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-222 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.41.2.199 |
| OpenAlex | W2128864932 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
This essay examines the durability of Darby Crash, lead singer of the Germs, one of Los Angeles's earliest punk bands. Crash committed suicide in 1980, but he and the Germs continue to fascinate those familiar with their music and story. This ongoing interest is the result of numerous factors, including the Germs' music, Crash's disturbing worldview and charisma, and our more general obsession with celebrity and death. After offering a brief account of Crash's life and his involvement with the Germs, I discuss his largely closeted queerness, one of the apparent reasons behind his suicide; I consider the idea of authenticity and its importance in the ideology of rock and punk. Then, I contextualize Crash in the culture of the United States and Los Angeles in the late 1970s
Art · Art history · Charisma · Crash · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Punk · Theology · American Political and Social Dynamics · Computer Science · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
The Road to Total Freedom
Pretty in punk
Music and society
City of Quartz
Performing Glam Rock
The Nature of Fiction
The culture of narcissism
Subculture
The dialectic of enlightenment
The Culture of Narcissism
Punks in LA
Postmodernism and Its Discontents
Sources of the self
The End of the World as We Know It
Dialectic of Enlightenment
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |