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"This book chronicles the Kyoto / Kansai 1980s hardcore punk scene through the album, Don't Be Swindle by S. O.B., with a focus on Kyoto's main venues and the networks they created. Apart from being the center of Japan's cultural heritage, Kyoto is home to one of Japan's leading avant-garde art and music scenes. By focusing on the seminal hardcore album Don't Be Swindle by S. O.B. and using rich archival material, this book explains the connections and entanglements of space and scene in 1980s punk"--