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On The Rock'n'Roll

On The Rock'n'roll: a history of making music on the dole and the extraordinary explosion of musical talent from the less privileged enabled by the British Welfare State, incorporating anecdotes, interviews, musical selections, social history, jobseekers, dirty squatters, social security scroungers, workshy fops, ponces and a whole load of cultural miscegenation – and how your life wouldn't be anywhere near as good without it.

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A blog featuring extracts and extraneous examples from David Lance Callahan's potentially forthcoming book On The Rock'n'Roll,

a history of the post-rationing musical explosion enabled by the welfare state.

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Modern-day squatters

A very recent article on Buzzfeed with photographs of the modern squatting scene in London ... https://www.buzzfeed.com/lynzybilling/squ...

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Reggae on the dole (part two): ... to Birmingham, via London.

The Bristol Riots were also eponymously covered by London’s Lion Youth, a quality act who was born in London, schooled in Jamaica and the...

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Reggae on the dole (part one): from Bristol ...

Before Two Tone (which will be covered at length in On The Rock’n’Roll) hit the mainstream, unemployment benefits had provided the spawni...

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New Orleans blues

Moonshake head to Louisiana for an ill-fated industry 'shake-and-fake', all the time pondering how this will count as 'looking for work'....

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