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Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion: The Punk and Post-Punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975-80
Nick Crossley
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Hardback. Series: Music & Society. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 black & white tables, 25 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVGU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 242 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
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 transformation in certain city-based strongholds into a variety of interlocking post-punk forms. Nick Crossley offers a detailed review of prior work in this area, a rich exploration of new empirical data and a highly innovative and robust approach to the study of ... Read more
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 transformation in certain city-based strongholds into a variety of interlocking post-punk forms. Nick Crossley offers a detailed review of prior work in this area, a rich exploration of new empirical data and a highly innovative and robust approach to the study of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Music and Society
Condition
New
Weight
572g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719088643
SKU
V9780719088643
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Ref
99-15
About Nick Crossley
Nick Crossley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester -- .
Reviews for Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion: The Punk and Post-Punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975-80
In sum, Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion can be appreciated on a number of different levels: as a case study of micro-mobilisation, as a demonstration of the explanatory powers of social network analysis, and as an account of 1970s punk and post-punk that breathes new life into a well worn subject. 'This book should appeal ultimately ... Read more