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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 16 books in this booklist
£21.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781629638843 | ISBN 10: 1629638846
This is the late 1970s and ’80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presen ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913172213 | ISBN 10: 191317221x
'Bullock has written a meticulously researched history which is as enjoyable as it is informative. 5/5 stars.' Classic Pop Pride, Pop and Politics charts the development of gay culture and the rise of LGBTQ politics in the UK, from the formation ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781913462000 | ISBN 10: 1913462005
Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, 'Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Burl Ives, etc., were also political activists with various associations with the American Communist Party. As a conseq ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529325607 | ISBN 10: 1529325609
Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry’s most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in “Me and a Gun” to her post-9/11 ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571327751 | ISBN 10: 0571327753
Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth – a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780753552711 | ISBN 10: 075355271x
He was a punk. He was a soldier. He was a flag-waver for both the Labour Party and the miners. He is Billy Bragg, best known as a passionate, protest folk singer and a tireless promoter of political and humanitarian causes all over the world. His li ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781447272694 | ISBN 10: 1447272692
Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and 'the po ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780745399300 | ISBN 10: 0745399304
Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to challenge the political and social order - and to prop up th ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786990150 | ISBN 10: 1786990156
From Tehran to Riyadh, Cairo to Nazareth, this is the story of how a new generation of rockers and rappers are trying to change the Middle East. A muggy night in Abu Dhabi, 2011. Under the stadium lights a 30,000-strong sea of Libyans, Pales ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909454309 | ISBN 10: 1909454303
Launched into public consciousness by John Peel in the early 1980s, poet, musician, journalist and political activist Attila the Stockbroker has since spent thirty five years touring the world as a self-sustaining, one man DIY cottage industry. Havin ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688564 | ISBN 10: 1781688567
A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music. Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the ear ... more
View book details£4.99 (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781604869507 | ISBN 10: 160486950x
A RADICAL LABOR CLASSIC Undoubtedly the most popular book in American labor history, the I.W.W.s Little Red Song Book has been a staple item on picket lines and at other workers gatherings for generations, and has gone through numerous edi ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780719071133 | ISBN 10: 0719071135
This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them. Having explored the thinking of Alan Watts, who coined the term Beat Zen, and who influenced the counter ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781854599209 | ISBN 10: 1854599208
Paul Robeson's international achievements as a singer and an actor made him the most celebrated black American of his day (he would have said 'Negro'). But his outspoken criticism of racism in the USA, his unflinching support of African independence, ... more
View book details£30.00 hardback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780826416629 | ISBN 10: 0826416624
Soweto Blues springs from the voices of dozens of South African jazzmen and women who lived through the apartheid years. From well-known international figures like Hugh Masekela to the neighbourhood heroes of small communities, the book uses the test ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781551642307 | ISBN 10: 1551642301
A fascinationg journey into the world of rebel musicians, where music and politics unite. From Thomas Mapjumo to Bob Marley, William Parker to Frank Zappa, Edgard Varese to Ice-T; from American blues to West African drumming, hip hop to son, gospel s ... more
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