UCLA’s professor of punk

Published: September 6, 2015

Jessica Schwartz finds connections between her research on the Marshall Islands, teaching and playing guitar in a punk band

On a sunny Tuesday morning, students shuffling into the Jan Popper Theater were handed a five-question quiz. One of the questions asked students to listen to a short clip of a loud, jarring song; then, they were instructed to “Circle the correct genre heard: a. nihilistic punk; b. skate punk; c. post-punk; d. psychedelic hardcore-punk; e. poser punk.”

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