126 primarily Bay Area and Los Angeles area punk and heavy metal music flyers, ephemera and posters collected by Sara Sutler-Cohen, a member of the scene in the mid 1980s and early 1990s. Among the bands represented in the collection are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neurosis, D.R.I., Circle Jerks, Corrosion of Conformity, Social Distortion, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, NOFX, Green Day, and Agnostic Front. The materials range in size from 2-3/4"x 3-3/4"to 11"x 17", with the majority measuring 8-1/2" x 11".

Sara Sutler-Cohen received her Ph.D. in Sociology with a parenthetical notation in American Studies in 2005 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she completed her dissertation on the phenomenon of Neoshamanism in Northern California. She teaches at San Francisco State University.

1.5 linear foot. 1 box

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