Shawna Kenney collection on punk and alternative rock
Collection
0449-SCPA-KENNEY
Shawna Kenney (b. 1969) is an author and instructor who was active as a concert promoter in the Washington, D.C. punk subculture of the late 1980s and early 1990s. She also co-edited and published the fanzine No Scene with Pam Gendell from 1986 through 1988, which features interviews with punk bands and reviews of concerts and recordings. Along with Gendell, Kenney promoted concerts at the Safari Club in Washington, D.C., helping to build a second wave of hardcore punk within D.C.'s punk scene in the late 1980s. Her books include 2017's Live at the Safari Club : A history of hardcore punk in the Nation's Capital, 1988-1998, co-authored with Rich Dolinger, and her award-winning 1999 memoir, I Was a Teenage Dominatrix. The Shawna Kenney collection on punk and alternative rock consists of 0.5 linear feet of fliers, photographs, recordings, and publications. Most of the fliers were used to promote concerts that Kenney organized in the Washington, D.C. area in the late 1980s. The other materials in the collection generally relate to the broader punk and alternative rock communities of the 1990s and early 2000s.
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0.5 Linear Feet
The Shawna Kenney collection on punk and alternative rock consists of 0.5 linear feet of fliers, photographs, recordings, and publications. Most of the fliers were used to promote concerts that Kenney organized in the Washington, D.C. area in the late 1980s. The other materials in the collection generally relate to the broader punk and alternative rock communities of the 1990s and early 2000s.
Shawna Kenney (b. 1969) is an author and instructor who was active as a concert promoter in the Washington, D.C. punk subculture of the late 1980s and early 1990s. She also co-edited and published the fanzine No Scene with Pam Gendell from 1986 through 1988, which features interviews with punk bands and reviews of concerts and recordings. Along with Gendell, Kenney also promoted concerts at the Safari Club in Washington, D.C., helping to build a second wave of hardcore punk within D.C.'s punk scene in the late 1980s.
Kenney earned a BA in Communications from American University in Washington, D.C. and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She teaches creative writing for UCLA's Extension Writers’ Program and as a Pen in the Community Writer in Residence through PEN USA. Kenney's writings have appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, Vice, Bust, Salon and other outlets. Her books include 2017's Live at the Safari Club : A history of hardcore punk in the Nation's Capital, 1988-1998, co-authored with Rich Dolinger, and her award-winning 1999 memoir, I Was a Teenage Dominatrix.
The Shawna Kenney collection on punk and alternative rock consists of 0.5 linear feet of fliers, photographs, recordings, and publications. Most of the fliers were used to promote concerts that Kenney organized in the Washington, D.C. area in the late 1980s. The other materials in the collection generally relate to the broader punk and alternative rock communities of the 1990s and early 2000s.
Gift of Shawna Kenney in 2018, with subsequent accruals.
Part of the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library