Quand la culture skinhead incarnait l’esprit smart and cool de 69. Inimitable Desmond Dekker.

Illustration : Premier LP de Demond Dekker & the Aces, source Discogs.

Spéciale 39ème émission de LeChairman avec William Deligny, ancien guitariste de Evil Skins et moine hindouiste, parlent Rédemption, Gang, Skinhead, 93, Hindouisme, Social… Un beau témoignage mis en ligne le 28 avril 2021. Merci Willy Swami pour ce parcours sincère et courageux.

Et sur la chaîne de William Deligny, l’histoire orale de cette rédemption en 30 épisodes vers le don de soi et la générosité de cœur pour extirper la violence et la haine qui sont en soi.

Pour en savoir plus : http://www.skinhead-repenti.fr/biographie/

Sans doute le meilleur documentaire sur cette sous-culture britannique et ses différents avatars.

Documentary in which director and DJ Don Letts looks at a very particular and very provocative British subculture – skinhead. He explores how skinhead has become associated with street fighting, trouble on the football terraces and violent racism in the public consciousness in Britain and around the world, but reveals that its origins lie in a cultural coming together that could not be further from its tarnished image.

Don shows in fascinating detail how the roots of skinhead are in a brilliant cultural collision between the young white working-class kids and their Jamaican counterparts in British inner cities, a moment of multicultural harmony. He traces the history of skinhead from the late 60s to the present, looking at the music and styles of skinhead from the reggae-influenced ska to the punk-influenced Oi. Throughout Don meets people who were committed members of various skinhead scenes, and he considers the conflicts and the contradictions that skinhead has attracted over five decades.

Source : BBC Four. URL : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07yv0qj

Voir également : The Story Of Skinhead With Don Letts. URL : https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2016/41/skinhead