V.A. - Oi! The Working Class

Oi! & WORKING CLASS “The rhetoric of Punk has always insisted that both the music and the style were strictly working-class, the expression of the dispossessed and the economically downtrodden. Punk was 'Sound From The Streets' rather than 'The Sound Of The Suburbs'...“ by Paul Fryer from 'Punk And The New Wave of British Rock: Working Class Heroes And Art School Attitudes' Street Punk is an urban working class based subgenre of Punk Rock, partly as a rebellion against the perceived artistic pretensions of the first wave of British Punk. Street Punk emerged from the style of early Oi! Bands such as Sham 69 and Cockney Rejects... The prevalent ideology of the original Oi! Movement was a rough brand of Working Class rebellion. Lyrical topics included unemployment, workers' rights, harassment by police & other authorities and oppression by the government. International collection of Working Class inspired songs by Street Punk / Oi! Bands com