'No Feelings', 'No Fun', 'No Future'. The years 1976-84 saw punk emerge
and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic.
Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment
and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British
youth culture, inserting marginal voices and political ideas into pop.
Fanzines and independent labels flourished; an emphasis on doing it
yourself enabled provincial scenes to form beyond London's media glare.
This was the period of Rock Against Racism and benefit gigs for the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the striking miners. Matthew Worley
charts the full spectrum of punk's cultural development from the Sex
Pistols, Buzzcocks and Slits through the post-punk of Joy Division, the
industrial culture of Throbbing Gristle and onto the 1980s diaspora of
anarcho-punk, Oi! and goth.
He recaptures punk's anarchic force
as a medium through which the frustrated and the disaffected could
reject, revolt and re-invent.
No Future : Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984 - Matthew Worley
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