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Customer Review: Ditto everyone else!
I also found out about this CD on the Somersault review and was also lucky enough to learn about Above & Beyond too (awesome!) so thanks Nick for forcing me to seek out other music 
DIY is just as another reviewer said - a journey. Enjoy the ride.
Customer Review: Brilliant
I agree 100% with the guy who also (like me) stumbled across this title in the Chicane Somersault review. It’s fantastic and the only shame is that this guy hasn’t done more !
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At raves and road protests, Britain’s youth forge a new kind of politics. Collective youth up trees or down tunnels, protest camps and all-night raves across the land - these are the spectacular features of the politics and culture of nineties youth in Britain. DiY Culture lays to rest the myth of “Thatcher’s Children,” for the flags are flying again — green, red and black. Editor George McKay, author of Senseless Acts of Beauty, claims that popular protest today is characterized by a culture of immediacy and direct action. Gathered together here for the first time is a collection of in-depth and reflective pieces by activists and other key figures in DiY culture, telling their own stories and histories. This, then, is a book of both celebration and self-criticism, written by realists and idealists alike. From the environmentalist to the video activist, the raver to the road protester, the neo-pagan to the anarcho-capitalist, the authors demonstrate how the counterculture of the nineties offers a vibrant, provocative and positive alternative to institutionalized unemployment and the restricted freedoms and legislated pleasures of UK plc.
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Customer Review: A theorist’s look at Party and Protest
Party and protest is a comprehensive study of of two distinct subcultures: DiY Protest and Rave (party) cultures. Having a strong theoretical background in subculture theory (esp. the Birmingham school) I felt that this book has certain elements to offer the curious British subcultures student, but that the insider perspective causes some problems for the accountability of the essays. One would almost get the idea that McKay, while forming this anthology, was conscious of the relationship he has as a member of the academy versus the exclusive British subcultures. I would recommend this text as a study of DiY groups but one must keep in mind that the essays all seem to come from a nastalgic last-chance attempt at holding on to the “good old days”.
Customer Review: Mostly interesting examination of new protest cultures
The face of protest is changing rapidly. What North Americans tasted in Seattle (Nov 1999) has been going on in Britain for a solid decade. The new protest movement is a fusion of environmentalism and anarchist theory, with a dose of art and drugs in the mix. These forces have come together in the aftermath of the Cold War, as Thatherite and Reaganite politics are eaten by the maggots of history. Now that we can dispense with the Red Scare crap, a new left movement is targetting greedy corporations, gluttonous consumerism, and ecocidal social practices. This book gives a good introduction to those protests in Britain, even as they are spilling into North America. Recommended for academics, punks, anarchists, and politically engaged people of all stripes and spots.
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