Hi guys,
I'm a masters student at the University of Sussex, and was hoping you might answer my questionnaire. Also, I was hoping you might be able to forward this questionnaire to anybody that you feel would respond - anybody who can answer the questions really.
My research is centered around the anarcho-punk reaction to the Falklands War but there is a broader look at how the music was perceived, so anybody who remembers it is important.
I have attached the file and the questions are below, please answer as many or as few as you have time for/feel are relevant.
I thank you in advance for any assistance, please get back to me if only to let me know if there's anything you can do or not.
Thank you for your time.
-John
Anarcho-Punk, Society and the Falklands War
Questionnaire
N.B. Please bear in mind that the focus here is history as the individual remembers it, feel free to elaborate as much as you can.
You may, of course, for convenience or otherwise, choose not to answer any of following the questions. Thank you in advance for any assistance.
Name:
Occupation 1980-1986 (or thereabouts):
Email address (entirely optional):
Please provide a sentence or two indicating the circumstances of your life during this period:
1. How effective do you feel artistic responses to political issues are? (i.e. how political can music be?)
2. Does this response change when considering music as a reaction to war? (Consider the US folk revival and Vietnam protests)
3. Do you feel the aims of anarchism were properly represented through the anarcho-punk movement? What role did the structure of the music industry play?
4. How do you feel anarcho-punk effected mainstream culture on the whole?
a) Was this important to you and others around you?
b) How do you feel mainstream culture effected anarcho-punk?
5. What sort of legacy do you feel the anarcho-punk movement has left?
How much does this matter to those involved in the movement itself?
6. What was your own reaction to the Falklands War? Was this consistent with other members of your band and/or the anarcho-punk scene?
7. What do you remember of the Crass releases ‘Sheep Farming in the Falklands’ and ‘How Does it Feel ’?
8. What kind of progress do you feel has been made in sub-cultural/countercultural movements and music? Could a band or song have more or less impact today than in 1982?