Synopsis
Don Letts explores how the skinhead subculture has become associated with street fighting and racism, but had its origins in a moment of musical and multicultural harmony.
- Programme: The Story Of Skinheads With Don Letts
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2016
- Sociology | How are youth subcultures formed? Why do they develop? | Theoretical views of the role of youth culture and subcultures: functionalism, Marxism/neo-Marxism, feminism, postmodernism. Subcultures.
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