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Youth culture and social change: making a difference by making a noise

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posted on 2023-06-09, 05:51 authored by Lucy RobinsonLucy Robinson, Sian Lincoln, Pete Webb, Matthew Worley, Keith Gildart, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates, John Street
Youth Culture and Social Change maps out new ways to historicise two overlapping political responses to economic and social change: public unrest and popular culture. Throughout the 1980s young people took to the streets, whether in formal marches organised by trade unions, political groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) or Reclaim the Night, or in spontaneous, collective outbursts of disorder. Wherever young people were present in forms of protest there, too, was music. The riots of the 1980s have their own soundtrack that has formed part of the collective memory of the decade. People rocked against racism, sexism, ‘the bomb’ and the fragmentation of working-class communities. The popular music charts recognised the voices of protest in singers like Pauline Black, Billy Bragg, Elvis Costello, Morrissey and Paul Weller, whose songs of resistance gained both commercial and critical success

Funding

The Network for Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Chnage,; AHRC Network Grant

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  • Published

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  • Other

Publisher

Palgrave

Pages

289.0

Place of publication

UK

Series

Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music

Department affiliated with

  • History Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Humanities Lab Publications

Notes

his is an edited book edited by Lucy Robinson, Sian Lincoln, Pete Webb, Matthew Worley, Keith Gildart, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates, John Street

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Lucy Robinson, Sian Lincoln, Pete Webb, Matthew Worley, Keith Gildart, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates, John Street

Legacy Posted Date

2017-11-07

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