num_pages: 379
description: This is the late 1970s and ’80s as explained through the urgentand still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, theStyle Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bandsand solo artists. Each chapter presents a mixtape (orplaylist) of songs related to an alarming feature of Thatcher’s Britain,followed by an analysis of the dialogue these artists created with theThatcherite vision of British society. “Tell us the truth,” Sham 69demanded, and pop music, however improbably, did. It’s a furious andsardonic account of dark times when pop music raised a dissenting fistagainst Thatcher’s fascist groove thing and made a glorious,boredom-smashing noise. Bookended with contributions by Dick Lucas andBoff Whalley as well as an annotated discography, The Fascist Groove Thing presents an original and polemical account of the era.
language: English
title: The Fascist Groove Thing: Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes
publisher: PM Press