Football Casuals, Fanzines, and Acid House: Working Class Subcultures, Emotional Communities, and Popular Individualism in 1980s and 1990s England.

IF 1.1 1区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI:10.1093/tcbh/hwad010

Ben Jones

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Abstract

This article illuminates the dynamics of two of the most significant yet neglected youth subcultures of the late twentieth century: football's casual culture and the acid house scene. Through the lens of two influential fanzines, Liverpool's The End and London's Boy's Own I make a series of arguments about the relationship between 'popular individualism', emotion, and working-class communities. I argue that while conceptualizing the fanzines as 'emotional communities' can yield important insights about the role of feelings such as nostalgia in bonding people together, gendered sensibilities and satirical frameworks need to be taken into account in order to fully understand the subcultural affinities that the fanzines engendered. The framework of 'popular individualism' on the other hand can help to illuminate the tensions between individualism and collective belonging at a number of levels which the article discusses. The article concludes by noting that the analysis of these neglected subcultures offers fruitful ways of reconceptualizing community and belonging in a period when traditional forms of working-class organization were in decline.

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足球休闲服、Fanzines和迷幻屋:20世纪80年代和90年代英格兰的工人阶级亚文化、情感社区和流行个人主义

这篇文章阐明了20世纪后期两个最重要但被忽视的青年亚文化的动态:足球的休闲文化和酸屋场景。通过利物浦的《结局》和伦敦的《男孩自己的》这两本有影响力的杂志，我对“流行个人主义”、情感和工人阶级社区之间的关系进行了一系列论证。我认为，虽然将fanzines概念化为“情感社区”可以对怀旧等情感在将人们联系在一起方面的作用产生重要的见解，但为了充分理解fanzines所产生的亚文化亲和力，性别敏感性和讽刺框架需要被考虑在内。另一方面，“大众个人主义”的框架可以帮助阐明个人主义和集体归属之间的紧张关系，这篇文章在许多层面上进行了讨论。文章最后指出，在传统工人阶级组织形式衰落的时期，对这些被忽视的亚文化的分析为重新定义社区和归属感提供了富有成效的方法。

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Twentieth Century British History HISTORY-

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期刊介绍： Twentieth Century British History covers the variety of British history in the twentieth century in all its aspects. It links the many different and specialized branches of historical scholarship with work in political science and related disciplines. The journal seeks to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, in order to foster the study of patterns of change and continuity across the twentieth century. The editors are committed to publishing work that examines the British experience within a comparative context, whether European or Anglo-American.