‘Stop flexing your roots, man’: Reconversion strategies, consecrated heretics and the violence of UK first-wave punk

• Published in: Punk & post-punk Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 21 - 39
• Main Author: Branch, Andrew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol Intellect 01.04.2014; Intellect Ltd
• Subjects: Bourdieu; Bourdieu, Pierre; British music; class; Deleuze and Guattari; Deleuze, Gilles; field; Guattari, Felix; habitus; punk; Punk Rock; Social Classes; Social Identity; social space; Violence

The article assesses how the reshaping of the habitus of UK punk’s original working-class and lower-middle-class practitioners framed their investment in this heavily mediated popular music culture. A reshaping that facilitated an increased reflexivity in these more socially mobile subjects. This is...