Late-Modern Hipsters - Before the Windrush
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BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Before the Windrush - Laurie Taylor talks to John Belchem, Professor of History at the University of Liverpool, about his study of race relations in 20th century Liverpool. Long before the arrival of the Empire Windrush after the Second World War, the city was already a teeming mix of different nationalities and races. Black Liverpudlians pioneered mixed marriages and parentage but they also experienced rejection and discrimination. Nisha Katona, city born resident and trustee of National Museums Liverpool, joins the debate.
Also, Bjorn Andersen, a sociologist at the University of Gothenburg, discusses the phenomenon of the late modern 'hipster', the young bohemian of the cosmopolitan city.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:45.0 | Years ago when there was something of an exponential growth in the number of |
| 0:49.8 | subcultures which required urgent sociological attention, my colleagues Stan Cohen and myself |
| 0:55.3 | decided to invent one of our very own. Forget TEDs and mods and rockers and skinheads and punks and hippies. |
| 1:01.6 | The new subculture on the block was inhabited by, we spent some time deciding on this fictional name by |
| 1:07.0 | Duke's. And what did Duke's do? Well, simple, they went into pubs and cafes and trashed jukeboxes that had stopped playing |
| 1:13.9 | rock and roll music. So if your jukebox didn't have at least a couple of little Richard |
| 1:17.6 | tracks or some early Elvis or a bit of Eddie Cochran, then the dukeers could be after you. We've managed to insert news of the ducer menace into a couple of articles we wrote |
| 1:26.0 | and we were gratified on one occasion, actually on one occasion we heard a conference speaker |
| 1:30.8 | allude to the threat that dukers posed to law and order. |
| 1:35.0 | Well, my fictional Dukers came back to mind when I encountered a new research article |
| 1:40.0 | in the actor sociological journal called Late Modern Hipsters New Tendencies in Popular Culture. |
| 1:47.0 | Hipsters, hipsters, hipsters, were they those 70s genes that you have to keep pulling up? |
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