Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion

Nick Crossley

• Hardcover | Engels | Music and Society
• This book examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Deploying innovative concepts of... Lees meer

Music and the Sociological Gaze

Peter J Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Music and Society
• At a time when the 'social' analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological id... Lees meer

Time and Memory in Reggae Music

Sarah Daynes

• Paperback | Engels | Music and Society
• On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, the author offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in regg... Lees meer

English Musical Renaissance, 1840-1940

Meirion Hughes, Robert Stradling

• Paperback | Engels | Music and Society
• Second edition of a book which caused huge controversy in its first printing - now completely revised and updated. Argues that research into the cultu... Lees meer

It's a London Thing

Caspar Melville

• Paperback | Engels | Music and Society
• This book is a record of the Black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the... Lees meer

Why pamper life's complexities?

• Hardcover | Engels | Music and Society
• In this, the first academic text devoted to The Smiths, writers from a range of perspectives set out to consider the cultural significance and endurin... Lees meer

Popular Music in England 1840-1914

David Russell

• Paperback | Engels | Music and Society
• The only in-depth study of the wider field of popular music in this period. Scholarly, but accessible. This is an Open University Set Text. Lees meer

Popular Music on Screen

John Mundy

• Paperback | Engels | Music and Society
• Popular Music on Screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary deve... Lees meer

Popular Music in England, 1840-1914

Dave Russell

• Hardcover | Engels | Music and Society
• Russell's discussion reflects the broad categories of popular music activity during this period. His first section describes the musical activity gene... Lees meer