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Oi! Oi! is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. [1] The music and its associated subculture had the goal of bringing together punks, skinheads, and other disaffected working-class youth. [2] [3] The movement was partly a response to the perception that many participants in the early punk rock scene ...
Mar 18, 2010 · Thirty years ago, a rock writer coined the term 'Oi!' to decribe his favourite music. Soon 'punk's idiot half-brother' was synonymous with arson, racism and football violence. By Alexis Petridis
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Genres 3 Mins Read. Oi! Music. By the end of the 1970s, punk in Britain was splintering into several distinct strains, most of them quite “arty”. Oi! music was an attempt to keep punk a populist, street-level phenomenon, and most of it came from the working class of South London and the cockney East End. When Garry Bushell, then features ...
Oi! music was an attempt to keep punk a populist, street-level phenomenon; most of it came from the Cockney working class of London's East End. Likely taking its name from the Cockney Rejects' 1980 song "Oi! Oi! Oi!" (before which it was simply known as street-punk), Oi! was loud, brutal, and extremely simple, with loads of shout-along, almost ...
Nov 19, 2022 · The impression was compounded by an Oi! compilation album, Strength Thru Oi!, put together by music weekly Sounds. Its compiler, the music journalist Garry Bushell, claimed he was unaware of the ...
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Early Oi! bands such as Sham 69 were around for years before the word Oi! was used to describe their style of music. The word was first used as a name for the new genre in 1980, by journalist Garry Bushell. He took the name from the way the Cockney Rejects used "Oi!" during live shows to introduce their songs. "Oi! Oi! Oi!"
Mar 16, 2024 · The Oi! subgenre of punk rock originated in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United Kingdom. Known for its working-class and street-level themes, Oi! music often reflected the realities and struggles of the working-class youth at the time. The term “Oi!” itself is an expression commonly associated with the working class in the UK ...
