"There is No Authority but Yourself": The Individual and the Collective in British Anarcho-Punk

Abstract

The political and cultural work with which Crass were involved was informed by a fusion of traditions within anarchist thought, which sought to encourage those drawn to it to: Demand our rights, refuse to be part of the authority which denies them and recognise that the system is nothing but a small handful of ruling elites who are powerless without our support. 18

Songs about fucking: John Loder's southern studios and the construction of a subversive sonic signature

“…While only two of Southern's vast, musically subversive recording catalogue have been considered here, the influence of Southern Studios and John Loder on the sonic aesthetics of subversive musics is indisputable. As Rich Cross identified in Crass’ music, part of this sonic signature is attributable to commonalities in instrumentation, vocal delivery, and lyrical matter, as well as the subversive politics and culture of the musicians Loder recorded (Cross, ). However, the Southern sonic signature is imbued in the technological and processual construction of the mixes, thus are an extension beyond musical and stylistic motifs.…”

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“…Aunque empezó siendo una escena musical minoritaria, el punk define a día de hoy a diversas manifestaciones sociales, culturales y artísticas alternativas asociadas generalmente a la cultura popular, con un cierto carácter de oposición a la sociedad normativa (Cherry & Mellis, 2012). El nexo en común de todas ellas es un estilo de música minimalista y disonante, y ciertas coincidencias estéticas e ideológicas muy abiertas: dentro de la cultura punk se comparte una actitud y forma de pensar que tiene elementos de la ideología anarquista tales como el rechazo a la sociedad establecida, el antiautoritarismo, la autogestión o la autonomía (O'Hara, 1999;Cross, 2010;Kristiansen et al, 2010;Donaghey, 2016). Hay también una importante componente nihilista muy escéptica que conecta IC -Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación 20 (2023) • pp.…”

Punk, Politics and British (fan)zines, 1976-84: 'While the world was dying, did you wonder why?'

“…94 The anarchism articulated through punk fanzines bore a contentious relationship to previous traditions of anarchist thought, even as it mirrored many of its historic tensions. 95 It was, in many ways, an anarchism forged from a variety of impulses, be they realignments on the left occasioned by the advent of new social movements and the prevailing influence of the sixties counter-culture or an inverse response to the socio-economic, cultural and technological changes of the late twentieth century. Here was an emphasis on individuality and freedom at odds with the rhetoric of the New Right but equally scathing of communism and the social-democratic left.…”