Matthew Worley: No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984
Please join us on Thursday 28th May to celebrate Matthew Worley’s No Future!
‘No Feelings’, ‘No Fun’, ‘No Future’. The years 1976 to 1984 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British youth culture, inserting marginal voices and political ideas into pop.
Rejecting both tired clichés and nostalgic myths, Matth provides the definitive account of how punk was constructed and utilised from the ground up. He takes youth culture seriously as a way of understanding history, demonstrating how punk not only reflected but directly impacted social and political history through its unique ability to provoke, disrupt and subvert. This revised and updated edition marks fifty years since the birth of punk and includes a new foreword from acclaimed music journalist, Paul Morley.
It remains the foremost history of British punk.
Matt will be tdelivering a talk on the book, followed by audience questions and a chance to get your book signed.
Matthew Worley is an academic and author. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading. His main fields of historical interest are 20th-century British communism and fascism; and punk and post-punk subculture and popular music. He is founder and co-editor of the journal Twentieth Century Communism and also a founding member of the Subcultures Network, a group of more than 5,000 people who research and are interested in subcultural practices.
Matthew Worley: No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984
Thursday 28 May
The Book Hive, Norwich
Doors 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start
FREE (suggested £2 donation to cover wine)
Matthew Worley: No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984
Please join us on Thursday 28th May to celebrate Matthew Worley’s No Future!
‘No Feelings’, ‘No Fun’, ‘No Future’. The years 1976 to 1984 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British youth culture, inserting marginal voices and political ideas into pop.
Rejecting both tired clichés and nostalgic myths, Matth provides the definitive account of how punk was constructed and utilised from the ground up. He takes youth culture seriously as a way of understanding history, demonstrating how punk not only reflected but directly impacted social and political history through its unique ability to provoke, disrupt and subvert. This revised and updated edition marks fifty years since the birth of punk and includes a new foreword from acclaimed music journalist, Paul Morley.
It remains the foremost history of British punk.
Matt will be tdelivering a talk on the book, followed by audience questions and a chance to get your book signed.
Matthew Worley is an academic and author. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading. His main fields of historical interest are 20th-century British communism and fascism; and punk and post-punk subculture and popular music. He is founder and co-editor of the journal Twentieth Century Communism and also a founding member of the Subcultures Network, a group of more than 5,000 people who research and are interested in subcultural practices.
Matthew Worley: No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984
Thursday 28 May
The Book Hive, Norwich
Doors 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start
FREE (suggested £2 donation to cover wine)
Matthew Worley: No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984
Please join us on Thursday 28th May to celebrate Matthew Worley’s No Future!
‘No Feelings’, ‘No Fun’, ‘No Future’. The years 1976 to 1984 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British youth culture, inserting marginal voices and political ideas into pop.
Rejecting both tired clichés and nostalgic myths, Matth provides the definitive account of how punk was constructed and utilised from the ground up. He takes youth culture seriously as a way of understanding history, demonstrating how punk not only reflected but directly impacted social and political history through its unique ability to provoke, disrupt and subvert. This revised and updated edition marks fifty years since the birth of punk and includes a new foreword from acclaimed music journalist, Paul Morley.
It remains the foremost history of British punk.
Matt will be tdelivering a talk on the book, followed by audience questions and a chance to get your book signed.
Matthew Worley is an academic and author. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading. His main fields of historical interest are 20th-century British communism and fascism; and punk and post-punk subculture and popular music. He is founder and co-editor of the journal Twentieth Century Communism and also a founding member of the Subcultures Network, a group of more than 5,000 people who research and are interested in subcultural practices.
Matthew Worley: No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984
Thursday 28 May
The Book Hive, Norwich
Doors 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start
FREE (suggested £2 donation to cover wine)