White Youth: The Far Right, Punk and British Youth Culture, 1977-87

Worley, Matthew and Copsey, Nigel 2016. White Youth: The Far Right, Punk and British Youth Culture, 1977-87. JOMEC Journal (9) , pp. 27-47. 10.18573/j.2016.10041

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Abstract

White Youth’ recovers and explains the relationship between far-right organisations and British youth culture in the period between 1977 and 1987. In particular, it concentrates on the cultural spaces opened up by punk and the attempts made by the National Front and British Movement to claim them as conduits for racist and/or ultra-nationalist politics. The article is built on an empirical basis, using archival material and a historical methodology chosen to develop a history ‘from below’ that takes due consideration of the socio-economic and political forces that inform its wider context. Its focus is designed to map shifting cultural and political influences across the far right, assessing the extent to which extremist organisations proved able to adopt or utilise youth cultural practice as a means of recruitment and communication. Today the British far right is in political and organisational disarray. Nonetheless, residues tied to the cultural initiatives devised in the 1970s–80s remain, be they stylistic, nostalgic or points of connection forged to a transnational music scene.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GT Manners and customs J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JC Political theory M Music and Books on Music > M Music
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	2049-2340
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	22 June 2016
Date of Acceptance:	21 May 2016
Last Modified:	03 May 2023 01:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/92075

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