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Gringos, reggae gyals and 'le francais de la souche recente'

so much nonsense has been written about the apparent unwillingness of black fans to attend english football matches, particularly in the case of the 1998 football task force (ftf) report to the ministry of sport.7 the reasons offered vary, from the out-and-out racist to claims about 'extenuating cultural and economic factors': 'black people don't watch football they follow basketball ... they don't like to have to stand out in the cold ... It will look at the significance of the qualification of the jamaican national team for the world cup and the experience of jamaican fans - many of whom were born in britain - and the inclusion and identification embodied around the jamaican team.

Gringos, reggae gyals and 'le francais de la souche recente': Nation, Diaspora and Identity in Football

so much nonsense has been written about the apparent unwillingness of black fans to attend english football matches, particularly in the case of the 1998 football task force (ftf) report to the ministry of sport.7 the reasons offered vary, from the out-and-out racist to claims about 'extenuating cultural and economic factors': 'black people don't watch football they follow basketball ... they don't like to have to stand out in the cold ... It will look at the significance of the qualification of the jamaican national team for the world cup and the experience of jamaican fans - many of whom were born in britain - and the inclusion and identification embodied around the jamaican team.

Playing With Real Feeling: Making Sense Of Jazz In Britain

The negro players may be born with swing in their hearts, and such musical souls have outnumbered the white jazz players, but it took the scholarly, trained musicians like 'ragtime frank' guarente, to first analyze the swing motif, and to add this faculty of improvisation to the rudiments of american jazz music as it was first written and then recorded on the phonograph disc by white musicians.25 these arguments were formalized in the first american jazz book, henry osgood's 1926 so this is jazz, and had a particular resonance for white british performers, struggling to assert their own creative authority. For the problem of treating jazz as an art music see mary herron dupree, ' "jazz", the critics and american art music in the 1920s', american music, 4, 3 (1986), for jazz and the fine arts see simon frith and howard home, art into pop (london: methuen, 1987), ch. 3.

Saint Boris

the question is: can he use 'it is time for gorbachev to welcome yeltsin as an ally, instead of treating him as a suspicious interloper in the corridors of power' that mandate fruitfully for the good of the people he represents? if one examines yeltsin's political programme, it is really gorbachevism taken to its logical conclusions. cast into what many still thought of as outer darkness, yeltsin did not abandon the fight, but began to cultivate the still embryonic 'informal associations': groups of concerned citizens just beginning to seize the opportunities afforded by glasnost and demokratizatsiya to campaign on matters of public concern, some of which chimed with yeltsin's own.

How English Is It? Popular Literature And National Culture

this triangulating conception of national/popular/literature calls into question not only the idea of literature as the expression of 'the nation', but also the new formations  old binarisms of literati:re/popular fiction and high culture/mass culture. The second concerns the imagining of englishness: how might popular fictions shape our perception and experience of identity and difference? 31  national culture and popular literature culture, says edward said, refers to what is at stake in the phrases belonging to or in a place, being at home in a place.

Foreign News

The sato-nixon reversion deal is a compro­ mise, under which the us will share okinawa with japan, while urging japan to extend its military power more in the direction of korea and the asian mainland, as laid out during melvin laird’s visit to japan and korea this summer, and as further suggested by the new japanese defence minister, nishimura, in october this year. In this way, either okinawa can be used as the thin edge of the wedge for the introduction of nuclear weapons into japan as a whole (where they may already be clandestinely); or, as former japanese defence chief nakasone put it last december, if the us does not keep its nuclear weapons on okinawa, then the “deterrent” will no longer be “credible” and japan will have to acquire its own nuclear arsenal.

The Echoing Corridor Music in the postmodern East End

Looking at the influences of american and more recently asian music, and at the traces of english musical history (e.g., music hall) present in late twentieth-century music made in east london and its extended 'suburbs', i will comment in particular on the location and development of musical forms, and examine the nature and extent of music provision by the music business, by educational institutions and local government. The continuing presence of pop music, and the music of the asian and caribbean communities, on radio and in record stores, and the presence of the children of commonwealth immigrants in the schools of british urban centres, have led gradually to the reformation of senior school music teaching away from music appreciation, classical composition and instrumental technique, and towards the technologies and practices of popular music.

Positive Image

Y e to e y e beatrix campbell talks to adam lury positive image adam lury is managing partner at the advertising agency howell henry chaldecott lury you're smack in the middle of an industry that has been instrumental in constructing certain images of society, and you're interested in the language of empowerment. general motors have just done a whole campaign which is based around the people who've designed and built the car, and they've got this female car worker saying 'why i'm very proud that we're working on this particular model'.

Redrawing the Front Line: Southern Africa in Transition

brought black southern africa to its knees alter the history of southern africa was the — negotiations would be on south africa's us imperative need to stabilise south south africa and the us africa. And some of the same is crocker in his paper built up the us case south african-run, and us-backed, des- powerful business interests within south for closer diplomatic and economic ties tabilisation of black african states which africa itself were beginning to question with south africa.

ADVERTISING FOR A CHANGE

advertising's basic job is to inform and persuade; the use of advertising to reach people is provenly effective in all sorts of ways and not in just flogging what many people see as unnecessary consumer goods. you've been involved in advertising left issues, do you think that generally they are well one thing is a fact about advertising: harder to get across than conservative or it doesn't lead, it comes along after the fact right-wing issues?

Everyday Offensive�notes on ideology

(and of course the women’s movement alone cannot do this, nor can the male-dominated left, or the labour movement do it alone, nor the militant forces of black people, but only a many-sided revolutionary socialist grouping or movement which preserves the autonomy of its various forces, and organises at all levels in terms of ideological struggle and the development of new social relationships-a new balance and unity of our needs through struggle, which means the needs of the oppressed being set in total opposition against the needs of the oppressors to hang on to their power and keep us divided, materially, by sex, race, age, occupation etc.) while struggling through louis althusser’s article on ‘ideology and the state’ i found myself thinking how much he was still blinded by being inside male supremist ideology— so that he, of all famous theoreticians, while writing away about ideology, simply couldn’t see the sexist aspects of capitalism and its ideology, because of his age, history and situation as a male intellectual. apart from these obvious ruling class ideologies, there are other false ideas adding to this tension, new ideologies which reflect the extent to which the trade unions are beginning to be integrated, by way of the leadership, into the state, and become a part of the capitalist economic plan—for instance, the worker doing his bit for the national interest, the possi­ bility of ‘honourable’ bargains between (male) workers and bosses, workers ‘participation’ in management, etc. so you have the fact of individual powerlessness and deprivation in the face of a repressive system, coupled with the dream of individual male power and ownership (material and sexual-the goods).

The Notting Hill Carnival

Marxism today august 1982 31 cecil gutzmore the notting hill carnival on the final weekend of august 1982 some hundreds of thousands of people will take part in the 16th annual notting hill carnival. Not a carnival atmosphere certainly if that is taken to mean solely one of 'jollity' and yet in so far as it is also of the essence of carnivals as occasions of mass cultural expression that they are pregnant with rebellion, the police had succeeded in deepening the reality of this particular carnival.

New Times - The Party Is Over

For instance, francis williams, a true labour loyalist, friend of clem attlee and former editor of the daily herald, describes the birth of the labour party (fifty years march, the rise of the labour party) in this way: 'and now, on that february morning in 1900, the curtain was rising on a new act in this tremendous drama...' and: 'the party born on that grey february day in a drab commercial street off fleet street was to... mobilise behind it and become the chief instrument of a polticial uprising of the working classes of britain that was to change the social and economic face of the country out of all recognition...' this hero would go on to carry through 'a programme which would have seemed the wildest and most revolutionary utopianism to those passing along farringdon street about their ordinary business on that february day in the first year of the new century.' Led for the most part by the campaign for labour party democracy, with most of the left-wing groups, the party introduced the right of constituency parties to re-select their mps and, in a manoeuvre to keep its by now fractious parts together, an electoral college for the party leader and deputy.

All in the same boat?

for example, a text such as meera syal's anita and me can be read as asian women's diaspora writing, as indian writing, british asian writing, contemporary british writing, british women's writing, or alongside texts by other british based caribbean, african and asian writers. Can caribbean, asian and african literature in britain be read together in a way which is politically constructive? the history of migration to britain is one which involves culturally diverse peoples, from all parts of the globe, arriving on these shores at different times and for different reasons.

All in the Same Boat?

for example, a text such as meera syal's anita and me can be read as asian women's diaspora writing, as indian writing, british asian writing, contemporary british writing, british women's writing, or alongside texts by other british based caribbean, african and asian writers. Can caribbean, asian and african literature in britain be read together in a way which is politically constructive? the history of migration to britain is one which involves culturally diverse peoples, from all parts of the globe, arriving on these shores at different times and for different reasons.

Charge Of The Light Brigade

It now comprises a popular alliance between the black caucus, which co-ordinates the many voluntary organisations among black citizens, the women's organisations, the housing co-ops movement disowned by the city council, the voluntary sector which has been starved of resources by the labour council, and the trades council.2 liverpool is an example in extremis of the problem of statism in labour's local government. In three local authorities - all of them in london - we now have black council leaders, and in brent there is a new generation of councillors who enjoyed a landslide victory on a radical manifesto; the 'class of 1986' include more women and more black people than ever before, who have lived their lives in their communities' politics rather than in the labour party as such.

Interview with Nancy Fraser

Interview with nancy fraser linking the cultural left and the social left towards participatory parity hugues jallon, yves sintomer, stephen wright at the beginning of the 1980s, in her analysis of social movements, nancy fraser established a distinction (which has subsequently become quasiparadigmatic) between a ‘politics of recognition’, which insists upon respect for the identities of different groups, and a ‘politics of redistribution’, which remains committed to the fair redistribution of goods and services. Sokal claimed to be acting on behalf of the real left the social left, which cares about serious issues like the economy - in order to expose the phoniness and silliness of the ‘false’ left, the cultural left.

Linking the Cultural Left and the Social Left: Interview with Nancy Fraser

Interview with nancy fraser linking the cultural left and the social left towards participatory parity hugues jallon, yves sintomer, stephen wright at the beginning of the 1980s, in her analysis of social movements, nancy fraser established a distinction (which has subsequently become quasiparadigmatic) between a ‘politics of recognition’, which insists upon respect for the identities of different groups, and a ‘politics of redistribution’, which remains committed to the fair redistribution of goods and services. Sokal claimed to be acting on behalf of the real left the social left, which cares about serious issues like the economy - in order to expose the phoniness and silliness of the ‘false’ left, the cultural left.

The Caribbean's Stolen Jewel

the evidence of this new mass participation could be seen at all levels of the revolutionary process; in the growth of the militia and the national youth organisation; in the voluntary participation of youth in the important nationwide cpe literacy programme; in the sunday work brigades which repaired roads and schools and in the national women's organisation whose 161 local groups increasingly put grenadian women at the centre of their country's political stage. Not content with withdrawing its own aid, the us government did everything possible to block aid from other sources; including attempting to stop the april 1981 eec conference in brussels from voting aid for the international airport, ensuring that grenada was excluded from aid after hurricane allen and, in june 1981, offering the caribbean development bank $4m on the condition that grenada was excluded from the beneficiaries.

Colluding in the backlash? Feminism and the construction of 'orthodoxy'

Soundings 20  soundings issue 5 spring 1997 colluding in the backlash? feminism and the construction of 'orthodoxy' rosalind gill rosalind gill argues that to talk of feminism as an orthodoxy is to play into the hands of those who call us 'femi-nazis' or 'political correctness thought police'. Interestingly, there seems to be no consensus among these feminists about the nature or content of 'feminist orthodoxy'; for example, protagonists in different camps of the pornography debate routinely claim to challenge it, while, in discussions about the status of mothering in feminist theory, some claim that feminism has been preoccupied with it, while others claim that it has been virtually ignored.

Colluding in the Backlash? Feminism and the Construction of 'Orthodoxy?

Soundings 20  soundings issue 5 spring 1997 colluding in the backlash? feminism and the construction of 'orthodoxy' rosalind gill rosalind gill argues that to talk of feminism as an orthodoxy is to play into the hands of those who call us 'femi-nazis' or 'political correctness thought police'. Interestingly, there seems to be no consensus among these feminists about the nature or content of 'feminist orthodoxy'; for example, protagonists in different camps of the pornography debate routinely claim to challenge it, while, in discussions about the status of mothering in feminist theory, some claim that feminism has been preoccupied with it, while others claim that it has been virtually ignored.

Californian sketches

90  californian sketches elsewhere there is the grand temple, a modified reproduction of the temple of hathor at dendera; a statue of the falcon god horus, associated with the sun and the heavens, son of osiris and isis; a statue of thutmosis iii (1505-1450 bc), the inspirational source for much of rosicrucian thought; and the pylon gateway, similar to the one leading to the temple of medinet hahu (that serves as a model for the administration building), which is adorned by a baboon who 'sacred to thoth — the egyptian god of wisdom and judgement — sits atop a pair of scales balancing the ib, or heart, of a deceased person, against maat, the feather of truth.' here in los angeles, as the art world prepares for digital galleries—artnet's""' proprietary galleries on-line system - and electronic art fair catalogues, the commodification of the aesthetic 'aura', the fashionable framing of momentary transcendence, reveals not merely the 'essence' of metropolitan modernity and technology but also, and still listening to heidegger, the very essence of art as the event that discloses itself while simultaneously withdrawing from view.

Californian Sketches

90  californian sketches elsewhere there is the grand temple, a modified reproduction of the temple of hathor at dendera; a statue of the falcon god horus, associated with the sun and the heavens, son of osiris and isis; a statue of thutmosis iii (1505-1450 bc), the inspirational source for much of rosicrucian thought; and the pylon gateway, similar to the one leading to the temple of medinet hahu (that serves as a model for the administration building), which is adorned by a baboon who 'sacred to thoth — the egyptian god of wisdom and judgement — sits atop a pair of scales balancing the ib, or heart, of a deceased person, against maat, the feather of truth.' here in los angeles, as the art world prepares for digital galleries—artnet's""' proprietary galleries on-line system - and electronic art fair catalogues, the commodification of the aesthetic 'aura', the fashionable framing of momentary transcendence, reveals not merely the 'essence' of metropolitan modernity and technology but also, and still listening to heidegger, the very essence of art as the event that discloses itself while simultaneously withdrawing from view.

Prince

48 marxism today while michael jackson, with whom prince hates to be compared, seeks with increasing difficulty to erase or resolve all signs of difference, both sexual and racial, prince throws them up in the air and pushes any sense of coherent identity to the limit and beyond, making the very idea seem illusory. ignoring the fact that the most sublime moments of black music from al green to james brown have often been produced from exactly the place where religious feeling melts into sexual healing, prince's 'schizophrenia' is one of his most marketable qualities.

INTERNATIONAL

but according to one estimate, if visible aid is included the u.s. needs to spend at least one billion dollars a year on cambodia alone, i.e. on the u.s. bombing (100,000 tons on cambodia in 1971, according to the recent study of cornell university), on the cia activities, on the south vietnamese in cambodia (50,000 as of november 1971), on the khmer serei and khmer krom forces, and on the hired mercenaries from australia, the philip­ pines, south korea and thailand used to train the lon nol army. south-west africa - the 13,000 ovambo workers deported back to their home areas by south african police after crippling the south-west africa economy with a wave of strikes (7 days no. 10) have elected a 25-member repre­ sentative committee to voice their demands.