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The Proletariat

Index The Proletariat

The Proletariat are a punk rock band from Southeastern Massachusetts, whose heyday was during the 1980s, when they were active in the early Boston hardcore scene, sharing the bill with many of the best punk and hardcore punk acts of the time,. [1]

97 relations: Agitprop, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, AllMusic, American Hardcore: A Tribal History, Anarchism, Apponequet Regional High School, Art punk, Assonet, Massachusetts, Bassist, Beat (music), Boston Herald, Boston Rock, Brave New World, Brett Milano, Bridge 9 Records, Bristol Community College, BrooklynVegan, Chuck Eddy, Compact Cassette, Cover band, Cowbell, Crass, Dave Dictor, Dead Kennedys, Disc jockey, Drummer, Emerson College, Extended play, Facebook, Feral House, Gang of Four (band), Guitarist, Hardcore punk, Havoc Records, Homestead Records, Indifference (album), International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation, Josiah McElheny, Joyce Millman, Killing Joke, Lead single, Lead vocalist, Left-wing politics, Lou Giordano, Mao Zedong, Marxism, MDC (band), Mission of Burma, Modern Method Records, ..., Moshing, Newbury Comics, Noise rock, Oakland, California, Ogg, Option (music magazine), Paradise Rock Club, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Pittsburgh, PM Press, Port Townsend, Washington, Post-punk, Providence, Rhode Island, Public Image Ltd, Punk rock, Raw Power (band), Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, Rhode Island, Robert Christgau, Rock 'n' Roll Rumble, Roger Miller (rock musician), Roger Miret, Sacramento, California, Sex Pistols, Snare drum, Soma Holiday (the Proletariat album), Southeastern Massachusetts, Steven Blush, Suburban Voice, Taang! Records, Tacoma, Washington, Tape trading, Taunton, Massachusetts, The Boston Globe, The Clash, The Fall (band), The Phoenix (newspaper), The Village Voice, This Is Boston, Not L.A., University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Vice (magazine), Volcano Suns, WBCN (FM), WERS, William S. Burroughs, Wire (band), Working class. Expand index (47 more) »

Agitprop

Agitprop (from r, portmanteau of "agitation" and "propaganda") is political propaganda, especially the communist propaganda used in Soviet Russia, that is spread to the general public through popular media such as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms with an explicitly political message.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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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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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.

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Apponequet Regional High School

Apponequet Regional High School opened September 21, 1959, and serves secondary academic education students from the towns of Freetown, Assonet, and Lakeville, Massachusetts.

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Art punk

Art punk is a category of punk bands which are arguably more sophisticated than their peers, and go beyond punk's garage rock foundations.

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Assonet, Massachusetts

Assonet is one of two villages in the town of Freetown, Massachusetts in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Bassist

A bassist, or bass player, is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone.

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Beat (music)

In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).

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Boston Herald

The Boston Herald is an American daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding area.

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Boston Rock

Boston Rock was a tabloid format entertainment magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Brave New World

Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932.

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Brett Milano

Brett Milano (born 1957) is a Boston-based music critic and columnist.

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Bridge 9 Records

Bridge Nine Records is a contemporary hardcore punk record label located outside Boston, Massachusetts.

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Bristol Community College

Bristol Community College (BCC) is a two-year community college with its main campus located in Fall River, Massachusetts.

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BrooklynVegan

BrooklynVegan is a music blog founded in 2004 focusing primarily on music related news and events taking place in and around New York City.

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Chuck Eddy

Chuck Eddy (born November 26, 1960) is an American music journalist.

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Compact Cassette

The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Cover band

A cover band (or covers band), is a band that plays mostly or exclusively cover songs.

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Cowbell

A cow bell or cowbell is a bell worn by freely roaming animals made to scare off any predators.

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Crass

Crass were an English art collective and punk rock band formed in 1977 who promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life and a resistance movement.

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Dave Dictor

Dave Dictor (born December 4, 1956) is an American musician, founder and singer of the punk rock band MDC and the band's label, R Radical Records.

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Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California, in 1978.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Drummer

A drummer is a percussionist who creates and accompanies music using drums.

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Emerson College

Emerson College is a private college in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Feral House

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

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Gang of Four (band)

Gang of Four are an English post-punk group, formed in 1977 in Leeds.

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Guitarist

A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar.

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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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Havoc Records

Havoc Records is an underground crust punk record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Homestead Records

Homestead Records was a Long Island, New York-based sublabel of music distributor Dutch East India Trading.

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Indifference (album)

Indifference is the second studio album by American punk rock band the Proletariat.

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International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation

The International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation, commonly referred to as the P.E.A.C.E. compilation,.

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Josiah McElheny

Josiah McElheny (born in 1966, United States) is an artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects (see Glass art).

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Joyce Millman

Joyce Millman is an American television and music critic and writer on popular culture.

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Killing Joke

Killing Joke is an English rock band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England.

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Lead single

A lead single is usually the first single to be released from a studio album, by a musician or a band, before the album itself is released.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

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Lou Giordano

Lou Giordano (born c. 1957) is a record producer and recording engineer who co-founded Radiobeat Studios He worked at Fort Apache Studios when it was located in Boston and was a partner the production company Prodco, which had close ties with Fort Apache.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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MDC (band)

MDC (Millions of Dead Cops) is an American punk rock band formed in Austin, Texas in 1979.

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Mission of Burma

Mission of Burma is an American post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979.

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Modern Method Records

Modern Method Records was a record label that helped to document the Boston hardcore scene in the early 1980s.

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Moshing

Moshing or slamdancing is a style of dance in which participants push or slam into each other, typically performed in "aggressive" live music.

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Newbury Comics

Newbury Comics is an American music retailer based in New England.

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Noise rock

Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a diverse style of experimental rock employing noise music elements, which spun off from punk rock in the 1980s.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Option (music magazine)

Option (subtitled Music Alternatives, then Music Culture) was a music magazine based in Los Angeles, California.

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Paradise Rock Club

The Paradise Rock Club (formerly known as the Paradise Theater) is a 933-capacity music venue located in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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PM Press

PM Press is an independent publisher that specializes in radical, Marxist and anarchist literature, as well as crime fiction, graphic novels, music CDs, and political documentaries.

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Port Townsend, Washington

Port Townsend is a city in Jefferson County, Washington, United States.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is one of the oldest cities in the United States.

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Public Image Ltd

Public Image Ltd (abbreviated as PiL) are an English post-punk band formed by singer John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten), guitarist Keith Levene, bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Raw Power (band)

Raw Power is an Italian hardcore punk band from Reggio Emilia.

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Reel-to-reel audio tape recording

Reel-to/open-reel audio tape recording is the form of magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording medium is held on a reel, rather than being securely contained within a cassette.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Rock 'n' Roll Rumble

The Rock 'n' Roll Rumble (sometimes stylized "Rock & Roll Rumble"; formerly the "WBCN Rock 'n' Roll Rumble"), begun in 1979, is a Greater Boston "battle of the bands" competition sponsored by WZLX and its local music show Boston Emissions.

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Roger Miller (rock musician)

Roger (Clark) Miller is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for co-founding Mission of Burma and performing in Alloy Orchestra.

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Roger Miret

Roger Miret (born June 30, 1964) is the vocalist for New York Hardcore band Agnostic Front, the street punk group Roger Miret and the Disasters, and the hardcore band The Alligators.

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Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Snare drum

A snare drum or side drum is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.

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Soma Holiday (the Proletariat album)

Soma Holiday is the first studio albumMillman, Joyce (October 25, 1983).

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Southeastern Massachusetts

Southeastern Massachusetts consists of those portions of Massachusetts that are, by their proximity, economically and culturally linked to Providence, Rhode Island as well as Boston.

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Steven Blush

Steven Blush is an American author, journalist, record collector and film maker who is best known for his book ''American Hardcore'' and the movie of the same name.

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Suburban Voice

Suburban Voice is a punk zine published by Al Quint.

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Taang! Records

Taang! Records is an independent record label with a roster of hardcore punk, punk rock, Oi!, power pop, ska, indie rock, psychedelic, and ambient artists and bands founded by Curtis Casella in Boston, Massachusetts in 1984.

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Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.

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Tape trading

Tape trading is an unofficial method of distribution of musical or video content through the postal system, which was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Taunton, Massachusetts

Taunton is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Fall (band)

The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

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The Phoenix (newspaper)

The Phoenix (stylized as The Phœnix) was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the Portland Phoenix and the now-defunct Boston Phoenix, Providence Phoenix and Worcester Phoenix.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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This Is Boston, Not L.A.

This Is Boston, Not L.A. is a hardcore punk compilation released in 1982.

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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass Dartmouth or UMassD) is one of five campuses and operating subdivisions of the University of Massachusetts.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice is a Canadian-American print magazine focused on arts, culture, and news topics.

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Volcano Suns

Volcano Suns was an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts formed by Mission of Burma drummer Peter Prescott in 1984.

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WBCN (FM)

WBCN was a terrestrial radio station in Boston, Massachusetts.

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WERS

WERS (88.9 FM) is one of Emerson College's two radio stations (the other being campus station WECB), located in Boston, Massachusetts.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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Wire (band)

Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar) and Robert Gotobed (drums).

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Working class

The working class (also labouring class) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work.

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References

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

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