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  • Belfast punk and the Troubles: An oral history

    by Fearghus Roulston ...
    Belfast punk and the Troubles is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. The book explores what it was like to be a punk in a city shaped by the violence of the Troubles, and how this differed from being a punk elsewhere. It also asks what it means to have been a punk – how punk unravels as a thread throughout the lives of the people interviewed, and what ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Representing Agency in Popular Culture

    Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between

    by Jessica Clark, David Buckingham, Michael G. Cornelius, Anja Höing, John Kerr, Leanna Lucero, Lucy Newby, Fearghus Roulston, Terri Suico, Catherine Hartung0, Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly1, Shih-Wen Sue Chen2, Tabitha Parry Collins3, Mary L. Fahrenbruck4, Sin Wen Lau5, John C. Nelson6, Ingrid E. Castro7 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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  • MOD

    From Bebop to Britpop, Britain’s Biggest Youth Movement

    by Richard Weight ...
    Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited ‘faces’. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon.Mod began life as the quintessential working-class movement of a newly affluent nation – a uniquely British amalgam of American music and European fashions that mixed modern jazz with modernist design in an attempt ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • 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

    $83.99 CAD

  • Authentocrats

    Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness

    by Joe Kennedy ...
    "The Authentocrats" claim to the be the new voice of common sense that speak for the common man and woman; right-wing, traditional and dangerous, Joe Kennedy argues that they are everything but what they purport to be.In contemporary Britain, a lot has been said about what it is that “real people” want politically. Forgotten by elites and sick of globalisation, so the story goes, they demand ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Imperial nostalgia

    How the British conquered themselves

    by Peter Mitchell ...
    A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Smile If You Dare

    Politics and Pointy Hats With The Pet Shop Boys

    by Ramzy Alwakeel ...
    A creative analysis of the The Pet Shop Boys’ fifth album “Very,” Smile If You Dare examines topics as diverse as technological paradise, sexual paranoia and representations of class in British pop music. As well as a keen critical edge, itis equipped with an undisguised mad love for the source material, a sense of passionate abandon induced by the tragic/ecstatic synth-pop that pours out of the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The punk rock politics of Joe Strummer

    Radicalism, resistance and rebellion

    by Gregor Gall ...
    Joe Strummer was one of the twentieth century’s iconic rock’n’roll rebels. As frontperson, spokesperson and chief lyricist for The Clash, he played a major role in politicising a generation through some of the most powerful protest songs of the era, songs like ‘White Riot’, ‘English Civil War’ and ‘London Calling’. At the heart of this protest was the struggle for social justice and equality.The ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • 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

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  • 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

    $27.99 CAD

  • Networks of sound, style and subversion

    The punk and post–punk worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975–80

    by Nick Crossley ...
    Series series 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 ‘critical mass’, ‘social networks’ and ‘music worlds’, and using sophisticated techniques of ‘social network analysis’, it teases out the events and mechanisms involved in punk’s ‘micro-mobilisation’, its diffusion across the UK and its ... Read more

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  • 1997

    The Future that Never Happened

    by Richard Power Sayeed ...
    'Beautifully written, brilliantly insightful'Owen JonesTony Blair and Noel Gallagher shaking hands at No. 10. Saatchi's YBAs setting the international art world aflame. Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack dress. A time of vibrancy and optimism: when the country was united by the hope of a better and brighter future. So why, twenty years on, did that future never happen?Richard Power Sayeed takes a ... Read more

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