1.11: Oi! What about skanking skinheads? (Ska)
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This article is from the Ska FAQ, by Tomas Willis tomas@twillis.com with numerous contributions by others.
1.11: Oi! What about skanking skinheads? (Ska)
Skinheads, originally, come out of the same *working class* culture
as ska. Just look at early Sixties pictures of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh
and Bunny Wailer -- they have no hair! Skinhead culture spread more
widely in the late Sixties as more and more Jamaicans went to the UK
and influenced the White youth culture there. These old UK bald-heads
were rude boys. Yesterday's and today's skinhead fashion has a legacy
from Black Jamaica. Since the first skinheads were trying to look like
shave-head rude boys, it makes all those Nazi skinhead types seem pretty
ignorant, eh? It's a good thing they are in the minority.
For more info see the FAQ for alt.skinheads by Sid Sowder, if you
can find it. It no longer is being posted to the obvious places on
Usenet. (If anyone turns up a copy of this c.1991 document, please
send it to me me. -TCNW)
Skinheads in the Caribbean ("Cocos pelados") are still associated
with the ska scene, as they are elsewhere. In Puerto Rico, the ska
scene is closely tied to the skinhead *(Cabezas de Piel)* and oi scene,
according to Skarlos.
More info on non-racist skinheads is available on the Web:
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lashout/skns.html, thanks to Paul
Paukstelis lashout@ksu.ksu.edu, a.k.a. *Lash Out USA*. `Lashout' seems
to be unavailable a lot, because of KSU's draconian web quota policies.
A bi-linugal, non-racist skinhead page is `Un Mode de Vie',
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1741/. Another good skinhead page
is `Monkey Boots', http://www.zebra.net/~mdjones/page_monkey_boots.html,
by Lisa (monkeyboots@zebra.net).
For more about the "straight-edge" scence, check out
http://www.straight-edge.com/define.html.
Skinheads can be found on the Usenet in the newsgroup
news:alt.skinheads. In addition, calmer skinhead conversation can be
had in the newer newsgroup news:alt.skinheads.moderated.
There is skinhead chat on the IRC, on the Undernet, on channel
`#skinhead'.
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