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- Title
Subcultures, Pop Music and Politics: Skinheads and "Nazi Rock" in England and Germany.
- Authors
Brown, Timothy S.
- Abstract
This article takes a comparative and transnational approach to a key phenomenon of the late-20th century: the dovetailing of music-based youth subcultures with radical politics. First prominent in the "Counterculture" of the 1960s and 70s, the phenomenon has become increasingly salient with the rise of right- wing-extremist rock music and racist skinhead violence in Europe since the fall of Communism. Examining the evolution of the "skinhead" from a fusion of West Indian immigrant and white working class youth styles in 1960s England into a vehicle of right-wing extremism in the Germany of the 1980s and 1990s, the article combines history and theory in an exploration of how an originally-English subculture was transformed through its contact with German social, cultural and historical traditions.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; GERMANY; OI music; POLITICAL participation; POPULAR culture; SKINHEADS; YOUTH culture; RADICALISM &; music; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Journal of Social History, 2004, Vol 38, Issue 1, p157
- ISSN
0022-4529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jsh.2004.0079