Against the backdrop of the latter disturbances, blues musician Eric Clapton used the platform his star status afforded him to make a number of ill-advised racist remarks and unwittingly became the catalyst for RAR.Ī succession of activist talking heads recount the anger and determination that forged the Rock Against Racism initiative, but the narrative that begins to emerge is of a cultural youth movement that took on a momentum of its own. The film opens with a montage of the ugly race riots that intermittently affected the inner-cities in the second half of last century, including the incendiary Notting Hill flashpoints of 19.
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The film focuses upon the years between 19 when RAR was ignited, shone most brightly and then burned out, but is framed by both the historical context of turbulent post-war UK race-relations that made a populist anti-racist campaign necessary and speculation about the contribution to the enduring struggle for multi-racial equality that this movement may still have the potential to make. A new feature-length documentary by fire fighter-filmmaker Alan Miles, Who Shot the Sheriff, charts the history and legacy of Rock Against Racism – one of the most progressive cultural movements ever to have captured the popular imagination in modern Britain. Concerted Efforts: Remembering Rock Against Racism By Mark BedfordĪs well as the earth-shaking events of 1968, this Spring marks another anniversary worthy of commemoration: an anti-racist event that indelibly roused and rocked London almost exactly 10 years later, on April 30th 1978.
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