PAUL GILROY

On the BBC website, Jon Kelly it states:
– Released on 20 June 1981 against a backdrop of rising unemployment.
– Britain’s streets erupted with rioting 3 weeks later, a day before “Ghost town” was number 1 on the charts.
– With a mix of black and white members, The Specials, too, encapsulated Britain’s multiculturalism.
– Specials gigs began to attract the hostile presence of groups like the National Front and the British Movement.

On the guardian website, Neil Spencer states:
– It was the punk’s “summer of hate”, 1977 where people had spiky haircuts, a ripped t-shirt and a sawn-off school tie.
“THERE AINT NO BLACK IN THE UNION JACK”

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS (BINARY OPPOSITIONS)
– He suggested that myths were used to deal with the contradictions in experience,
– This theory suggests that NARRATIVES (=myths) are STRUCTURED around BINARY OPPOSITIONS eg: good v evil; human v alien; young v old etc.
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