Collective Identity - Music - 2 Tone

• The Specials combined black and white street styles
• it was a contradictory movement that changed many of their audiences views on Black Britain
• After punk the music industry needed the next best thing - Specials were signed for their label - 2 tones
• Madness was signed by it, many other bands began to follow
• More of a movement than a fad 
• Coming together of politics and music, changing social views
• New arrivals during emigration was when the music came over - 2 tone was the time when it was truly accepted and openly enjoyed
• Reggae became known as pop music - not everyone understood where it had come from until bands like the Specials enabled this movement to take off
• Biggest fans of Jamaican music were the original 'Skinheads' - taking short hair a rolled up trousers from the traditional Jamaican clothes
• Some black people came to black music through white skinheads
• black skinheads however could be condemned for being racist themselves - the way that skinheads were racist towards Asian people
• Neo-Nazi's kept themselves surfaced during 70s
• as skinheads lost interest, punks gained interest in reggae 
• punk tried to copy many guitar solos