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Straight edge

Index Straight edge

Straight edge (sometimes abbreviated sXe or signified by XXX or X) is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco and other recreational drugs, in reaction to the excesses of punk subculture. [1]

88 relations: Adhesive, Alcoholic drink, American Hardcore: A Tribal History, Animal Liberation Front, Animal rights, Bent edge, Bold (band), Caffeine, Chain of Strength, Champion (band), Conservatism, Direct action, Down to Nothing, Drinking establishment, DYS (band), Earth Crisis, Earth Liberation Front, Embrace Today, Environmentalism, Exclaim!, Feral House, Fluff Fest, Gang, Gavel, George Petros, Gorilla Biscuits, Government Issue, Hard rock, Hardcore punk, Hardline (subculture), Have Heart, Heavy metal music, Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye, Inhalant, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Judge (band), Justice League (band), List of people who follow a straight edge lifestyle, List of straight edge bands, Mabuhay Gardens, Men and Masculinities, Metalcore, Minor Disturbance, Minor Threat, Moonshine, National Edge Day, Negative FX, Phoenix New Times, Positive hardcore, ..., Prescription drug, Promiscuity, Punk subculture, Recreational drug use, SAGE Publications, San Francisco, Sanctity of life, Slapshot (band), Social justice, SSD (band), State of Alert, Straight Edge (song), Straightedge, Subculture, Substance intoxication, Symbolic Interaction (journal), Ted Nugent, Teetotalism, Temperance movement, The Faith (American band), The Journal of Popular Culture, The Modern Lovers, The Teen Idles, The Vibrators, Throwdown (band), Tobacco, Turning Point (U.S. band), Uniform Choice, Vegan Reich, Veganism, Vegetarianism, Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C. hardcore, We're Not in This Alone, Wiley-Blackwell, Youth crew, Youth of Today, 7 Seconds (band). Expand index (38 more) »

Adhesive

An adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any substance applied to one surface, or both surfaces, of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation.

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Alcoholic drink

An alcoholic drink (or alcoholic beverage) is a drink that contains ethanol, a type of alcohol produced by fermentation of grains, fruits, or other sources of sugar.

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American Hardcore: A Tribal History

Written by Steven Blush, American Hardcore: A Tribal History is a journalistic book that relates the history of the hardcore punk movement that took place in Northern America between 1980 and 1986.

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Animal Liberation Front

The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an international, leaderless resistance that engages in direct action in pursuit of animal rights; often called a terrorist organization.

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Animal rights

Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.

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Bent edge

Bent edge or curved edge was an offshoot of hardcore punk that was formed to be a counter-movement to straight edge at the time straight edge was starting to gain traction and support.

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Bold (band)

Bold (originally named Crippled Youth), is a late 1980s youth crew hardcore band from Westchester County, New York, which, along with bands like Youth Of Today and Side By Side, were a part of the Youth Crew and an influence in the late 80's straight edge hardcore scene.

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Caffeine

Caffeine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant of the methylxanthine class.

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Chain of Strength

Chain of Strength is a straight edge hardcore punk band from Southern California that had its heyday in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Champion (band)

Champion was a straight edge hardcore punk band that was formed by vocalist Jim Hesketh, and guitarist Chris Williams, in the spring of 1999 in Seattle, Washington.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization.

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Direct action

Direct action occurs when a group takes an action which is intended to reveal an existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue.

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Down to Nothing

Down to Nothing (or DTN) are an American straight edge hardcore punk band from Richmond, Virginia.

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Drinking establishment

A drinking establishment is a business whose primary function is the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises.

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DYS (band)

DYS is an American straight edge hardcore band from Boston, Massachusetts who were part of the notorious "Boston Crew" in the 1980s, along with contemporaries such as SSD and Negative FX.

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Earth Crisis

Earth Crisis is an American metalcore band from Syracuse, New York, active from 1989 until 2001, reuniting in 2007.

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Earth Liberation Front

The Earth Liberation Front (ELF), also known as "Elves" or "The Elves", is the collective name for autonomous individuals or covert cells who, according to the ELF Press Office, use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment".

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Embrace Today

Embrace Today were an American straight edge metalcore–hardcore punk band from Boston, Massachusetts.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.

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Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists.

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Feral House

Feral House is a book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey.

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Fluff Fest

Fluff Fest is an independent hardcore punk festival held each July at the Czech town of Rokycany, near Pilsen.

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Gang

A gang is a group of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior.

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Gavel

A gavel is a small ceremonial mallet commonly made of hardwood, typically fashioned with a handle.

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George Petros

George Lawrence Petros (born January 11, 1955) is an American art designer, author, editor, interviewer and illustrator.

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Gorilla Biscuits

Gorilla Biscuits is a New York-based hardcore punk band originally formed in 1987.

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Government Issue

Government Issue was an American hardcore punk band from Washington, D.C. active from 1980 to 1989.

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Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

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Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk (often abbreviated to hardcore) is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.

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Hardline (subculture)

Hardline is a deep ecology subculture that has its roots in the vegan straight edge hardcore punk scene.

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Have Heart

Have Heart (now known as Free) is an American straight edge hardcore punk band, formed in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 2002.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Henry Rollins

Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), better known by his stage name Henry Rollins, is an American musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian.

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Ian MacKaye

Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (born April 16, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, record label owner and producer.

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Inhalant

Inhalants are a broad range of household and industrial chemicals whose volatile vapors or pressurized gases are concentrated and breathed in via the nose or mouth to produce intoxication (called "getting high" in slang), in a manner not intended by the manufacturer.

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Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in ethnography.

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Judge (band)

Judge is a New York hardcore band formed in 1987 by Youth of Today guitarist John "Porcell" Porcelly and former Youth of Today drummer Mike "Judge" Ferraro.

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Justice League (band)

Justice League, formed in 1983 and disbanded in 1988, were a Southern California-based straight edge hardcore punk group.

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List of people who follow a straight edge lifestyle

This is a list of notable people who follow the straight edge lifestyle.

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List of straight edge bands

The following is a list of bands that have been associated with the straight edge subculture.

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Mabuhay Gardens

The Mabuhay Gardens (a.k.a. The Fab Mab or The Mab) was a San Francisco nightclub located at 443 Broadway, on the Broadway strip of North Beach, an area best known for its striptease clubs.

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Men and Masculinities

Men and Masculinities is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering men's studies.

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Metalcore

Metalcore is a fusion genre combining elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk.

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Minor Disturbance

Minor Disturbance is the debut EP by the American hardcore punk band the Teen Idles, released in December 1980.

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Minor Threat

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band, formed in 1980 in Washington, D.C. by vocalist Ian MacKaye and drummer Jeff Nelson.

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Moonshine

Moonshine was originally a slang term for high-proof distilled spirits usually produced illicitly, without government authorization.

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National Edge Day

Edge Day is an official holiday founded by people who live straight edge lifestyles.

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Negative FX

Negative FX was a hardcore band from Boston, formed in 1981.

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Phoenix New Times

The Phoenix New Times is a free alternative weekly Phoenix, Arizona newspaper, published each Thursday.

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Positive hardcore

Positive hardcore (sometimes shortened to posicore or posi-core) is a branch of the hardcore punk music scene, that is socially aware, or focuses on values, such as being inclusive, community-oriented, and anti-violent.

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Prescription drug

A prescription drug (also prescription medication or prescription medicine) is a pharmaceutical drug that legally requires a medical prescription to be dispensed.

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Promiscuity

Promiscuity is the practice of having casual sex frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners.

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Punk subculture

Punk subculture includes a diverse array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature and film.

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Recreational drug use

Recreational drug use is the use of a psychoactive drug to induce an altered state of consciousness for pleasure, by modifying the perceptions, feelings, and emotions of the user.

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SAGE Publications

SAGE Publishing is an independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in California.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Sanctity of life

In religion and ethics, the inviolability or sanctity of life is a principle of implied protection regarding aspects of sentient life which are said to be holy, sacred, or otherwise of such value that they are not to be violated.

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Slapshot (band)

Slapshot is a hardcore band from Boston, Massachusetts.

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Social justice

Social justice is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society.

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SSD (band)

SSD (Society System Decontrol) were a straight edge hardcore (and later heavy metal) band from Boston.

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State of Alert

State of Alert (often abbreviated to S.O.A.) was an American hardcore punk group formed in Washington, D.C. in October 1980, and disbanded in July 1981.

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Straight Edge (song)

"Straight Edge" is a track from Minor Threat's 1981 eponymous debut 7" EP, later reissued both as part of the 1984 collection Minor Threat, then as part of 1989's Complete Discography.

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Straightedge

A straightedge or straight edge is a tool with a straight edge, used for drawing straight lines, or checking their straightness.

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Subculture

A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.

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Substance intoxication

Substance intoxication is a type of substance use disorder which is potentially maladaptive and impairing, but reversible, and associated with recent use of a substance.

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Symbolic Interaction (journal)

Symbolic Interaction is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell.

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Ted Nugent

Theodore Anthony Nugent (born December 13, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist.

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Teetotalism

Teetotalism is the practice or promotion of complete personal abstinence from alcoholic beverages.

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Temperance movement

The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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The Faith (American band)

The Faith was an early American hardcore punk band, from Washington D.C., with strong connections to the scene centered on the Dischord label.

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The Journal of Popular Culture

The Journal of Popular Culture (JPC) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes academic essays on all aspects of popular or mass culture.

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The Modern Lovers

The Modern Lovers was an American rock band led by Jonathan Richman in the 1970s and 1980s.

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The Teen Idles

The Teen Idles were an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C. in September 1979.

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The Vibrators

The Vibrators are a British punk rock band that formed in 1976.

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Throwdown (band)

Throwdown is an American straight edge heavy metal band from Orange County, California, formed in 1997.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them.

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Turning Point (U.S. band)

Turning Point was an American straight edge hardcore band from New Jersey, United States, that existed from 1988 to 1991.

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Uniform Choice

Uniform Choice is an Orange County, California hardcore punk band.

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Vegan Reich

Vegan Reich was an American Hardline hardcore band from Laguna Beach, California that was active from 1987 to 1993, and 1999.

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Veganism

Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals.

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Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Washington, D.C. hardcore

Washington, D.C. hardcore, commonly referred to as DC hardcore, sometimes referred to in writing as harDCore, is the hardcore punk scene of Washington, D.C. Emerging in late 1979, it is considered one of the first and most influential punk scenes in the United States.

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We're Not in This Alone

We're Not in This Alone is the third and final full-length studio album by New York hardcore punk band Youth of Today.

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Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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Youth crew

Youth crew is a music subculture of hardcore punk attributed to bands who were primarily active during the early to mid-1980s particularly during the New York hardcore scene of the late eighties.

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Youth of Today

Youth of Today is an American hardcore punk band, initially active from 1985 to 1990 before reforming in 2010.

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7 Seconds (band)

7 Seconds was an American hardcore punk band from Reno, Nevada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_edge

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