No Future - Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984

An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk's cultural development.

List of contents

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Teenage warning: punk, politics and youth culture; 1. What's this for? Punk's contested meanings; 2. Rock and roll (even): punk as cultural critique; 3. Tell us the truth: reportage, realism and abjection; 4. Suburban relapse: the politics of boredom; 5. Who needs a parliament? Punk and politics; 6. Anatomy is not destiny: punk as personal politics I; 7. Big Man, Big M.A.N: punk as personal politics II; 8. No future: punk as dystopia; Conclusion. Alternatives: chaos and finish.

About the author

Matthew Worley is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading. He has written extensively on British politics in the interwar period, and more recently on the relationship between youth culture and politics in the 1970s and 1980s. Articles on punk-related themes have been published in History Workshop Journal, Twentieth Century British History, and Contemporary British History. Recent works include Oswald Mosley and the New Party (2010) and, as a co-founder of the Subcultures Network, contributions to books such as Fight Back: Punk, Politics and Resistance (2015) and Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of 'Consensus' (2015).

Summary

Fascinating new account of punk's emergence as a fashion, musical form, attitude and aesthetic in Britain from 1976 to 1984. Matthew Worley reveals the ways in which punk was constructed, understood and utilised as a cultural medium against the backdrop of a 1970s Britain in deep social and political crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Worley, Matthew (University of Reading) Worley, Worley Matthew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107176898
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17689-8
• No. of pages: 414
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Cultural Studies, Social & cultural history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, c 1970 to c 1980, History and Archaeology, C 1980 To C 1990