Youth Culture and Social Change: Making a Difference by Making a Noise

288 Pages·2017·13.203 MB·English

by  Keith Gildart,Anna Gough-Yates,Sian Lincoln,Bill Osgerby,Lucy Robinson,John Street,Peter Webb,Matthew Worley (eds.)

Palgrave Studies in the History of
Subcultures and Popular Music
Series Editors
Keith Gildart
University of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton, UK
Anna Gough-Yates
University of Roehampton, London, UK
Sian Lincoln
LiverpoolJohnMooresUniversity,Liverpool,UK
Bill Osgerby
London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Lucy Robinson
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
John Street
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Peter Webb
University of the West of England
Bristol, UK
Matthew Worley
University of Reading, Reading, UK
From1940szoot-suitersandhepcatsthrough1950srock‘n‘rollers,beat-
niks and Teddy boys; 1960s surfers,rude boys, mods, hippies and bikers;
1970s skinheads, soul boys, rastas, glam rockers, funksters andpunks; on
to the heavy metal, hip-hop, casual, goth, rave and clubber styles of the
1980s, 90 s, noughties and beyond, distinctive blends of fashion and
music have become a defining feature of the cultural landscape. The
Subcultures Network series is international in scope and designed to
explore the social and political implications of subcultural forms. Youth
and subcultures will be located in their historical, socio-economic and
cultural context; the motivations and meanings applied to the aesthetics,
actions and manifestations of youth and subculture will be assessed. The
objective is to facilitate a genuinely cross-disciplinary and transnational
outletfor aburgeoning area ofacademic study.
More information aboutthisseries at
http://www.springer.com/series/14579
KeithGildart(cid:129)AnnaGough-Yates(cid:129)SianLincoln(cid:129)BillOsgerby(cid:129)
LucyRobinson(cid:129)JohnStreet(cid:129)PeterWebb(cid:129)MatthewWorley
Editors
Youth Culture
and Social Change
Making a Difference by Making a Noise
Editors
KeithGildart AnnaGough-Yates
UniversityofWolverhampton UniversityofRoehampton
Wolverhampton,UK London,UK
SianLincoln BillOsgerby
LiverpoolJohnMooresUniversity LondonMetropolitanUniversity
Liverpool,UK London,UK
LucyRobinson JohnStreet
UniversityofSussex UniversityofEastAnglia
Brighton,UK Norwich,UK
PeterWebb MatthewWorley
UniversityoftheWestofEngland UniversityofReading
Bristol,UK Reading,UK
EditedbytheSubculturesNetwork
PalgraveStudiesintheHistoryofSubculturesandPopularMusic
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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Our thanks go to the AHRC for funding the Network seminar series
(2013–15) from which this book emerged. The funding allowed the
Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music
and Social Change to extend its cross-disciplinary dialogue, engage with
academic and public partners, and facilitate new research. Equally, our
thanks go to all those who have joined and participated in the Network,
especially those who attended the AHRC-funded events and helped put
thisbooktogether.
The steering committee that oversaw the AHRC project comprised:
Jon Garland, Keith Gildart, Anna Gough-Yates, Paul Hodkinson, Sian
Lincoln, Bill Osgerby, Lucy Robinson, John Street, Peter Webb and
Matthew Worley.
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction:Making aDifference by Making aNoise 1
LucyRobinson,KeithGildart, AnnaGough-Yates,
SianLincoln, Bill Osgerby, John Street, PeterWebb
andMatthewWorley
Part1 Riots
2 Subcultures, Schools andRituals: ACase Study
of the ‘BristolRiots’ (1980) 17
RogerBall
3 The Language of the Unheard:Social Mediaand Riot
Subculture/s 47
LouisRice
4 ‘My Manor’s Ill’: HowUnderground MusicTold the Real
Story of the UK Riots 79
SarahAttfield
5 ‘A DifferentVibe anda DifferentPlace’:Re-telling the
Riots –A Round TableDiscussion 101
LucyRobinson andPeterWebb
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x CONTENTS
Part2 Music
6 ‘(Today IMet)The Boy I’mGonna Marry’: Romantic
ExpectationsofTeenageGirlsinthe1960sWestMidlands 119
RosalindWatkiss Singleton
7 Agents of Change:CulturalMaterialism, Post-Punk
and the Politicsof PopularMusic 147
David Wilkinson
8 HowtoForget(andRemember)‘TheGreatestPunkRock
BandintheWorld’:BadBrains,HardcorePunkandBlack
Popular Culture 175
TaraMarin Lopez andMichaelMills
Part3 Gangs
9 ‘It Wasnae JustEasterhouse’: The Politicsof
Representation in the Glasgow GangPhenomenon,
c. 1965–1975 205
AngelaBartie andAlistairFraser
10 GangGirls:Agency,SexualIdentityandVictimisation‘On
Road’ 231
TaraYoung andLorettaTrickett
11 ‘Silence isVirtual’: Youth Violence,Belonging, Death
and Mourning 261
William ‘Lez’ Henry andSireitaMullings-Lawrence
Index 285
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IST OF IGURES
Fig.2.1 LocationwithintheCityofBristoloftheSouthmead,Ashley
(St.Pauls)andFilwood(KnowleWest)electoralwards 20
Fig.2.2 Schematicofethno-geographicconnectionsbetweenareasof
BristolforfirstandsecondgenerationAfrican-Caribbean
residents 37
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