Crusties

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Crusties

Crusties (in the singular a crustie, in Germany colloquially known as crust ) denotes members of a subculture that emerged from the British anarcho-punk scene and from around the mid-1980s the squatter and ecology or anti-nuclear power movement, but also parts helped shape the music festival culture.

origin

The origin of the crusties can be found in the British protest movement of the 1980s, in the political climate of Thatcherism , influences of the hardcore punk , new age traveler , metal , rocker and hippie subcultures mixed into a new politically shaped movement. The anarcho collective of the band Crass is seen as a forerunner .

From Great Britain, the crustie movement spread to Europe, North and South America, associating itself with ideas of the hobo and tramp culture in the United States and with ideas of the autonomous in Germany and Scandinavia .

The crustie culture still exists today in various forms. One characteristic of the crusties that is mostly perceived as negative is the clichéd “bum punk with a dog”; other homeless crusties often make their living street musicians or jugglers .

philosophy

The Crusties took over the DIY ethics of the anarcho and hardcore punks and combined them with a radical dropout lifestyle. Similar to the hippie movement, they tried to counteract consumerism and capitalism criticism of mainstream society with new forms of life such as communes or living in occupied houses, camps and construction trailer spaces with little or no property of their own. In addition to this form of lived anarchism , they campaigned against deforestation and for animal liberation and mostly a vegetarian or vegan diet . Many crusties were also radical feminist and rejected the typical gender roles. In the 1980s, many crusties were nihilistic and lived their way of life in the extreme, often to the point of self-destruction through unhealthy lifestyles such as hunger strikes , refusal of personal hygiene , substance abuse and alcoholism . Later, many crusties adopted a more positive attitude and many adopted the straight-edge lifestyle. Religiously, many crusties tend to New Age ideas and are open to shamanism , Buddhism and neo-paganism , especially since these forms of spirituality, according to their understanding, can be easily reconciled with a natural, anarchistic and anti-capitalist way of life. In contrast, radical atheism is widespread among followers of the crustcore scene .

Culture

On the outside, crusties can often be recognized by a mix of styles made up of clothing elements from punk, hard rock and hippie cultures. They often wear their hair in the form of brightly colored dreadlocks , mohawks , mullet hairstyles or as so-called Skullet . Clothing is often self-made or put together from vegan or fair trade clothing and army or camouflage clothing . Many crusties have extreme tattoos and piercings . Crusties interested in esotericism often display their spirituality through Celtic, Indian or Indian jewelry. In general, in the 1980s, many crusties tended to show dirt and neglect in a particularly striking way in protest against mainstream society, but this outfit has now often given way to a particularly militaristic or martial appearance.

music

The subculture of the crusties is often associated with post-punk or folk-punk bands such as New Model Army or the Levellers . A style of hardcore punk , crustcore , was named after them . In the 1990s, more and more crusties were found at raves and in the freetekno scene, while the latter in turn derives its origin from the environment of the hippie culture and the autonomous. While in England the term crusties mostly describes the subculture as such, in Germany and the USA the word is now mostly used in relation to supporters of crustcore, or crust-punks in the narrower sense.

literature

  • Kevin Hetherington: New Age Travelers. Cassell, London 2000, ISBN 0-304-33978-4 .
  • Paul Heelas: The New Age Movement: Religion, Culture and Society in the Age of Postmodernity. Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 978-0-631-19332-6 .
  • Ian Glasper: The Day the Country Died-A history of Anarcho-Punk . Cherry Red Books, 2006, ISBN 1-901447-70-7 .
  • Ian Glasper: Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984 . Cherry Red Books, ISBN 978-1-901447-24-8 .
  • C. Clark: "New Age" Travelers: Identity, Sedentarism and Social Security. In T. Acton (Ed.): Gypsy Politics and Traveler Identity . University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield 1997.
  • F. Earle, A. Dearling, H. Whittle, R. Glasse, Gubby: A Time to Travel? An introduction to Britain's Newer Travelers. Enabler Publications, Lyme Regis, Dorset 1994, ISBN 0-9523316-0-8 .
  • R. Lowe, W. Shaw: Travelers: Voices of the New Age Nomads. Fourth Estate, London 1993, ISBN 1-85702-140-1 .
  • MARTIN, G .: Generational Differences amongst New Age Travelers. In: The Sociological Review. 46 1998, pp. 735-756.
  • L. Webster, J. Millar: Making a Living: Social Security, Social Exclusion and New Travelers. The Policy Press, Bristol 2001.
  • Simon Reynolds: Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture . Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1999, ISBN 0-415-92373-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kevin Hetherington: New Age Travelers. P. 58. Cassell. 2000
  2. ↑ Kevin Hetherington: New Age Travelers. P. 9. Cassell. 2000
  3. ↑ Kevin Hetherington: New Age Travelers. P. 98. Cassell. 2000
  4. ↑ Kevin Hetherington: New Age Travelers. P. 9. Cassell. 2000
  5. ↑ Kevin Hetherington: New Age Travelers. P. 9. Cassell. 2000
  6. ↑ Interview at: http://www.econ.tuwien.ac.at/~zych/privat/nma/nma-int-sorted.htm
  7. ↑ Interview on: http://www.atomicduster.com/interviews/the_levellers/index.html
  8. ↑ Simon Reynolds Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture. P. 164.