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The sound and the fury: a new documentary chronicles America's hardcore punk scene.(HEADLINERS MOVIES)

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i'm documenting the American hardcore punk music scene because it's being forgotten," writes Steven Blush in the introduction to his 2001 book, American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Blush's detailed chronology was enough to inspire music-video director Paul Rachman: Five years and more than 100 interviews later, his documentary of the same name proves that hardcore was less skinheads and slam dancing, more a legitimate cultural crusade. "I wanted people to see how a couple of hundred kids in a nation of millions were able to create their own movement that actually means something 26 years later," ...

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