Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground

For more than three decades, a punk underground has repeatedly insisted that ''anyone can do it''. This underground punk movement has evolved via several micro-traditions, each offering distinct and novel presentations of what punk is, isn''t, or should be. Underlying all these punk micro-traditions is a politics of empowerment that claims to be anarchistic in character, in the sense that it is co...