Form of political protest:

• It is a cultural resistance to Margaret Thatcher’s time as prime minister.
• Attempts to change laws or legislation.
• Petitions.
• Marches.

Antonio Gramsci.

Italian philosopher writing in the 1930s.

Hegemonic: dominant, ruling-class, power-holders.

Hegemonic culture: the dominant culture.

• a form of cultural resistance
• attempts to change law and legislation will not happen overnight
• Antonio Gramsci: Italian philosopher writing in the 1930s
• Cultural hegemony: power, rule, or domination maintained by ideological and cultural means.
• Hegemonic: dominant, ruling-class, power-holders
• the Birmingham school was first to notice the different subcultures of teenagers such as teddy-boys, mods, skinheads and punks.
• Margaret Thatcher: firm immigration control for the future is essential if we are to achieve good community relations’
• firm immigration control for the future is essential if we are to achieve good community relations’.
• ‘ too much fighting on the dancefloor’ reflects how there was a lot of violence at the 2 tone concerts.
• internal tensions in the band are reflected in the eerie sounding music.
• the empty streets represent how everyone was working and how it was no longer a busy city.