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A study of modern history
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A study of modern history
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lOMoARcPSD|1485157Week 8 - 6HS006 Youth Culture and Popular Music in
Twentieth Century Britain:
Week
Youth Culture and Popular Music in Twentieth Century Britain (University of
Wolverhampton)
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Punk Rock and Moral Panic, 1974-78. Week 8.
Economic and political context
• Conservatives in power 1970-1974
• Industrial Relations Act
• Retreat from state intervention
• Miners’ strikes in 1972 and 1974
• Political extremism
Miners rally, London, 1972
Labour and the 1974 election
• European community
• Industrial relations
• The left
Devolution
Labour in power 1974-76
• Economic problems
• Pay restraint and the social contract
• Employment Act 1975
• The left in the party and the unions temporarily isolated
Wilson, Callaghan and the fall of Labour 1976-79
• Wilson resignation in 1976 replaced by Jim Callaghan
• Healy and the IMF
• Rising unemployment and inflation (1978)
• Trade union militancy and ‘winter of discontent’ 1978/79
The force of punk rock
• Articulated frustration of youth
• Many artists used rhetoric of class
• Attack on professionalisation of music
• Spawned subculture with uniform, language, music and politics
• Major disagreements on meaning and influence of punk
Unemployment
• Esp. young unskilled
• “You don’t sing about love to people on the dole” JR
• Rising cost of living
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