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[email protected]. Copyright by JOHNATHAN KYLE WILLIAMS 2015 All Rights Reserved “ROCK AGAINST REAGAN”: THE PUNK MOVEMENT, CULTURAL HEGEMONY, AND REAGANISM IN THE EIGHTIES An Abstract of a Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts Johnathan Kyle Williams University of Northern Iowa May, 2016 ABSTRACT Despite scholars’ growing interest in the cultural movement known as punk, there has been a lack of focus on the movement’s relationship to its historical context. Punk meant rebellion, and this research looks at how the rebellion of the American punk movement during the eighties [1978 to 1992], was aimed at the president Ronald Reagan. Their dissent, however, was not only directed towards Reagan, but the culture that he encompassed.