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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

  • Cover image of book The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher
    The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes - by Hugh Hodges

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Pride, Pop and Politics: Music, Theatre and LGBT Activism, 1970-2022 by Darryl W. Bullock
    Pride, Pop and Politics: Music, Theatre and LGBT Activism, 1970-2022 - by Darryl W. Bullock

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Folk Singers and the Bureau by Aaron J Leonard
    The Folk Singers and the Bureau - by Aaron J Leonard

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Resistance: A Songwriter
    Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change and Courage - by Tori Amos

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg
    Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World - by Billy Bragg

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners by Andrew Collins
    Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners - by Andrew Collins

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge by Daniel Rachel
    Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge - by Daniel Rachel

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Sound System: The Political Power of Music by Dave Randall
    Sound System: The Political Power of Music - by Dave Randall

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Rock in a Hard Place: Music and Mayhem in the Middle East by Orlando Crowcroft
    Rock in a Hard Place: Music and Mayhem in the Middle East - by Orlando Crowcroft

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Arguments Yard: Thirty Five Years of Ranting Verse and Thrash Mandola by Attila the Stockbroker
    Arguments Yard: Thirty Five Years of Ranting Verse and Thrash Mandola - by Attila the Stockbroker

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution by Michael Denning
    Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution - by Michael Denning

    £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

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  • Cover image of book I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent by I.W.W.
    I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent - by I.W.W.

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song by Laurence Coupe
    Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song - by Laurence Coupe

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and Performance - Paul Robeson, Charlie Chaplin, Isadora Duncan by Colin Chambers
    Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and Performance - Paul Robeson, Charlie Chaplin, Isadora Duncan - by Colin Chambers

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Soweto Blues: Jazz, Popular Music and Politics in South Africa by Gwen Ansell
    Soweto Blues: Jazz, Popular Music and Politics in South Africa - by Gwen Ansell

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Rebel Music; Human Rights, Resistant Sounds and the Politics of Music Making by Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble (eds)
    Rebel Music; Human Rights, Resistant Sounds and the Politics of Music Making - by Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble (eds)

    £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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