Streetpunk
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Streetpunk is both a subgenre of punk rock and a word that describes punk rockers who are working class and/or from the inner city. The musical genre is favoured by non-racist skinheads, punks and herberts (fans who don't fit into either of the two categories).
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[edit] History
The streetpunk music genre started off as the Oi! music scene in the late 1970s in Great Britain. Musical influencs include the original wave of punk bands, as well as late-1970s British pub rock and glam rock. It was seen as a reaction against middle- and upper-class punk bands (like Generation X), and against trendy people who embraced the punk lifestyle in a superficial way.
Oi! was developed by bands such as Cockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer, The Business, The 4-Skins, Skrewdriver and Sham 69. It started as a youth music style with songs about tales of the street, police brutality, working class politics and drunken mayhem. It gradually became intertwined with UK 82 and other punk subgenres. Streetpunk bands of the mid 1980s include The Exploited, Oi Polloi, Attak and U.S. Chaos.
[edit] Fashion
Streetpunk fashion includes (but is not limited to) items such as leather jackets (sometimes painted with slogans or band names, and covered with metal spikes or studs), jeans, bondage trousers, bullet belts, studded leather belts, spiked or shaven hairstyles (including mohawks, often dyed), piercings, army boots or Dr. Martens boots. Skinhead-based items such as Ben Sherman or Fred Perry shirts, flight jackets and braces are popular among some streetpunk fans.
[edit] Criticism
Streetpunk bands are often at odds with pop punk bands and fans. A song by Chicago pop punk band Screeching Weasel, entitled Tightrope, takes aim at "tough-guy, so-called working class or streetpunk bands". The song Little Rich Working Class Oi-Boy, by The Queers, criticizes fans of streetpunk and Oi! music.
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[edit] Sound samples
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- "British Oi! Is Fighting Back" by Bakers Dozen:
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- "Flashback" by Splinter:
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