DiY Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties' Britain

New
Illustrated
1998
$31.70

This is a collection of in-depth and reflective pieces by activists and other key figures in DiY culture , who tell their own stories and histories. The book argues that popular protest of the 1990s is characterized by a culture of immediacy and direct action. From the environmentalist to the video activist, the raver to the road protester, the neo-pagan to the anarcho-capitalist, the authors demonstrate how the counterculture of the 1990s offers a positive alternative to insitutionalized unemployment and the restricted freedoms and legislated pleasures.

Synopsis

This is a collection of in-depth and reflective pieces by activists and other key figures in DiY culture , who tell their own stories and histories. The book argues that popular protest of the 1990s is characterized by a culture of immediacy and direct action. From the environmentalist to the video activist, the raver to the road protester, the neo-pagan to the anarcho-capitalist, the authors demonstrate how the counterculture of the 1990s offers a positive alternative to insitutionalized unemployment and the restricted freedoms and legislated pleasures.

$31.70

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 320
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 17 Jul 1998
ISBN 10: 1859842607
ISBN 13: 9781859842607

Media Reviews

If you're one of the many people who feel increasingly disenfranchised by the British political system and that New Labour is the same old, repressive, Tory/big business bullshit under a different name, then this is likely to be the most uplifting and empowering book you'll read in a long time. --Irvine Welsh

Author Bio

George McKay is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Salford, UK, where he is Director of the Communication, Cultural & Media Studies Research Centre. He writes on alternative cultures and identities--'cultural studies with a soundtrack' is how his website puts it--and his books include DiY Culture, Senseless Acts of Beauty, Glastonbury: A Very English Fair, Community Music: A Handbook (co-edited with Pete Moser), Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain, Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism & Rebellion in the Garden, and Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability. He maintains his own website at georgemckay.org.