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  • Let’s spend the night together

    Sex, pop music and British youth culture, 1950s–80s

    Edited by Subcultures Network ...
    Series series Subcultures and Social Change
    Let’s spend the night together explores how sex and sexuality provided essential elements of British youth culture in the 1950s through to the 1980s. It shows how the underlying sexual charge of rock ‘n’roll – and pop music more generally – was integral to the broader challenge embodied in the youth cultures that developed after World War Two. As teenage hormones rushed to move to the music and ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Fight back

    Punk, politics and resistance

    Edited by Subcultures Network ...
    Fight back examines the different ways punk – as a youth/subculture – may provide space for political expression and action. Bringing together scholars from a range of academic disciplines (history, sociology, cultural studies, politics, English, music), it showcases innovative research into the diverse ways in which punk may be used and interpreted.The essays are concerned with three main themes: ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of 'Consensus'

    Edited by The Subcultures Network ...
    This book examines youth cultural responses to the political, economic and socio-cultural changes that affected Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War. In particular, it considers the extent to which elements of youth culture and popular music served to contest the notion of ‘consensus’ that historians and social commentators have suggested served to frame British polity from the late ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Ripped, torn and cut

    Pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976

    Edited by Subcultures Network ...
    Series series Subcultures and Social Change
    Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind – and the politics within – the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976. Sniffin’ Glue (1976–77), Mark Perry’s iconic punk fanzine, was but the first of many, paving the way for hundreds of home-made magazines to be cut and pasted in bedrooms across the UK. From these, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • Punk Rock: So What?

    The Cultural Legacy of Punk

    Edited by Roger Sabin ...
    It's now over twenty years since punk pogo-ed its way into our consciousness. *Punk Rock So What?*brings together a new generation of academics, writers and journalists to provide the first comprehensive assessment of punk and its place in popular music history, culture and myth. The contributors, who include Suzanne Moore, Lucy OBrien, Andy Medhurst, Mark Sinker and Paul Cobley, challenge ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Music and Politics

    by John Street ...
    It is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effects, censor its sounds and imprison its creators. At the same time, there are other governments that use music for propaganda or for torture. All of these examples speak to the idea of music's political importance. But while we may share ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Art Into Pop

    by Simon Frith, Howard Horne ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music
    This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio, it focuses on two key moments – the early 1960s, when art students like John Lennon and Eric Clapton begin to play their own versions of American rock and blues and inflected youth music ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain

    by David Wilkinson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    As the Sex Pistols were breaking up, Britain was entering a new era. Punk’s filth and fury had burned brightly and briefly; soon a new underground offered a more sustained and constructive challenge. As future-focused, independently released singles appeared in the wake of the Sex Pistols, there were high hopes in magazines like NME and the DIY fanzine media spawned by punk. Post-Punk, Politics ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Cynicism in British Post-War Culture

    Ignorance, Dust and Disease

    by K. Curran ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It maps a sensibility that transcends divisions between high and low culture, and encompasses figures such as Philip Larkin, John Lennon and Stephen Patrick Morrissey. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Subcultures

    Cultural Histories and Social Practice

    by Ken Gelder ...
    This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London’s ‘Elizabethan underworld’, taking the rogue and vagabond as subcultural prototypes: the basis for Marx’s later view of subcultures as the lumpenproletariat, and Henry Mayhew’s view of subcultures as ‘those that will not work’. Subcultures are always in some ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Introducing Cultural Studies

    Learning through Practice

    by David Walton ...
    "An outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge... Innovative, creative and clever."- Times Higher Education"The ideal textbook for FE and first year HE cultural studies students. Its quality and character allow the reader to ‘feel’ the enthusiasm of its author which in turn becomes infectious, instilling in the reader a genuine sense of ebullient ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime

    by Mike Presdee ...
    Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, which has come to permeate daily life. The text argues that an overly organised economic world has provoked a widespread desire for extreme, oppositional forms of popular and personal pleasure. This desire has resulted in a cathartic 'second life' of illicit ... Read more

    $87.99 USD