Oi!

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The Oi! (onomatopoeia resulting from the Slang English, Contraction of in hey you! ( He you! )) is a subcategory of Punk rock'n'roll which tends to emphasize the working class.

They were punks groups with a “style of street”, not having a kind “high-culture” like other punks British groups of the time. Oi! wants to be also a musical style federating Punk S, Skinhead S and all those pertaining to the working class. Created towards end of the year 70 in England, this one amalgamated the styles of the first punks groups such as The Clash and the Ramones; groups rock'n'roll British of before the punk one such as the Rolling Stones and The Who; Pub rock'n'roll such as The 101 ' ers and Eddie and the Hot Rods; groups of Glam rock'n'roll such as Slade and Sweet and of vocal accompaniments (backvocals) based on songs of supporters of football. Therefore, one can hear guitars slower than in punk and the very repetitive ones, like much of choruses and sometimes singing the " slogan" “Oi! Oi! Oi! ”.

At the origin, Oi! " was called; punk Street " or " reality-punk." It was in the Eighties that this musical style changed name, after to defer it for the press Garry Bushell employed the Oi term! to indicate it. Apparently, it would have borrowed it from the Oi song! Oi! Oi! Cockney Rejects.

The first Oi groups! included Cock Sparrer, Menace and Sham 69, even if they existed already before the word Oi! is not used to describe their musical style. They were followed by groups such as the Cockney Rejects, Angelic Upstarts, The Business, Abrasive Wheels, The Last Resort, The 4-Skins, Combat 84, Blitz, Condemned 84, Infa-Riot, The Blood, The Oppressed and Anti-Heros. Also, Oi! was very often associated with the Hooligan ism and wrongly with the Nazisme.

Because of the engagement of some skinheads in organizations such as the National Face British, certain repertories of history of the rock'n'roll classified Oi! like racist. However, none the groups of punk street of origin promoted racism. Some even, like Angelic Upstarts, were openly of left and took an active part in campaigns antiracists. However, there is exception with the group Skrewdriver. The first compositions of the Seventies of this one are considered Oi!. However, the group separated, then was reformed, in the Eighties, with whole novel members personnel except for Ian Stuart Donaldson, the singer. During this reincarnation of Skrewdriver, the group distancia of the Oi scene! , carrying out the scene rock'n'roll néo-Nazi and preferring the term Rock'n'roll Against Communism to qualify its musical style. As for the first members of Skrewdriver, they did not want to be associated with the political opinions and with new engagements of Donaldson .les néo-Nazis, have after the death of the leader of skrewdriver, continued to appreciate the oi!

As regards the media, they associated Oi! with the extreme line following an incident which has occurred at the time of a concert given by The Business, The Last Arises and The 4-Skins the July 4th 1981 with the " Hamborough Tavern" with Southall. Young people of Asian origin had launched incendiary bombs on the tavern, believer who the concert was a gathering of néo-Nazis.

After all these events, several groups of Oi! the Fascisme and the Racisme condemned openly. However, these denials were accommodated with cynicism following the exit of the album of compilations Strength Thru Oi. Not only the title seemed to be a pun with a slogan Nazi (Strength Through Joy), but in more was, on the cover of the album, Nicky Crane, an activist of British Movement which had purged a four years of prison sentence for racism and violence. Garry Bushell, which was responsible for compilation, protested that its title was a word game on the album Strength Through Joy of the group The Skids. He also stated not to know the identity of the skinhead on the jacket of the album, until this one is exposed by the Daily Mail two months later. Bushell was however at that time a Socialist.

The Oi movement! French would start in 1981 with the Parisian group Swingo Porkies. Quickly, between 1981 and 1983, of new groups emergent in the same style: R.A.S. and the wild Infantry, always with Paris, or the inhabitant of Lille Snix, Brest-native Brutal Combat or Marseilles Warrior Kids.

The Oi movement! its popularity with the the United Kingdom lost very early. However, the scene saw the world in continental Europe, with the Japan and in America of North. With the the United States, Oi! was gleamed by the explosion of the Hardcore of beginning of the year 80 and in particular by groups such as Agnostic Front, Iron Cross and S.S. Decontrol. Although similar to the influences and the spirit of Oi! , the hardcore aimed at the American middle-class rather than the working class. About the middle of the Nineties, an renewed interest in the Oi music! occurred, with the emergence of new groups, generally of American origin and the old groups receiving more recognition. With this rebirth of the movement, there were many efforts put for distancier clearly the Oi scene! of any racism.

These more recent groups of Oi! include The Templars, Oxblood, Wretched Ones, Those Unknown, Nuts and Bolts, The Bruisers, Discipline, Retaliator, The Lager Lads, Oxymoron and Hard Skin. Those are generally more close musicalement hardcore that street punk British of the Seventies.

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