Brother 'Killer' Kane: Resistance, Identification, and the Intersection of Punk Music and Religious Values in New York Doll

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Abstract

Using Burke’s concepts of identification and framing, the independent film New York Doll is inductively analyzed as a site of the intersection between religion as tradition and music as resistance. The author examines the cultural processes of identity, oppression and resistance and the tension between cultural aesthetics, as manifested through the juxtaposition of punk music and Mormon culture. Ultimately, the author concludes that both music and religion can be doubly oppressive and doubly resistant.

Author

• Scott Church, University of Nebraska, Lincoln