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£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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£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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£30.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781797211787 | ISBN 10: 1797211781
America's greatest folk singer and songwriter, philosopher, political analyst, and man-of-the-people, Woody Guthrie and his passionate social politics and deep humanity are as crucial in the America of today as they were in the turbulent 1930s and 19 ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780715652992 | ISBN 10: 0715652990
From the birth of jazz in the red-light district of New Orleans, through the rock 'n' roll years, Swinging Sixties and all-singing and all-dancing disco days of the '70s, to modern pop, electronica and reggae – the LGBT community has played a cruci ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£18.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781570273186 | ISBN 10: 1570273189
Punk is one of the most fiercely debated post-war subcultures. Despite the attention surrounding the movement’s origins, analyses of punk have been drawn predominantly from a now well-trodden historical narrative. This simplification of punk’s hi ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781526113948 | ISBN 10: 1526113945
This book examines the working lives of musicians over the past 120 years via the history of the Musicians' Union. The union has been at the centre of all major agreements covering the employment of musicians across the UK's music industries for this ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781898240082 | ISBN 10: 1898240086
Pit Props marks the end of an era in coal mining in the UK and highlights how the incredible year-long struggle by the miners in defence of jobs and communities still resonates today. One section focuses on the vital creative links between music, pol ... more
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£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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£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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£40.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993242113 | ISBN 10: 0993242111
Total State Machine is published by PC-Press and is a unique historical document and visual representation of Test Dept, one of the UKs truly investigative agitators, authentic industrialists, utilisers and recyclers of society's debris.
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781471137211 | ISBN 10: 147113721x
John Lydon has secured prime position as one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols - the world's most notorious band, who shot to fame in the mid-1970s with singles ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847089342 | ISBN 10: 1847089348
On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Dressed in their trademark brightly coloured dresses and balaclavas, the women perform ... more
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£23.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781612052182 | ISBN 10: 1612052185
Long an icon of American musical and political life, Pete Seeger has written eloquently in books and for magazines, activist movements, and union newsletters. Although he has never written an autobiography, his life story is nowhere more personally c ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857865861 | ISBN 10: 0857865862
Written with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Schnayerson, My Song is an inspiring story of performance and protest, from a superstar singer and actor who was on the front lines of practically every progressive political battle in modern memor ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571241354 | ISBN 10: 0571241352
Why 33? Partly because that's the number of rotations performed by a vinyl album in one minute, and partly because it takes a lot of songs to tell a story which spans seven decades and five continents - to capture the colour and variety of this shape ... more
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£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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£18.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780826425058 | ISBN 10: 0826425054
Working On a Dream is a powerful and engaging study of this songwriter and performers art. Springsteen has consistently summoned his creative power and artistic vision to indict political developments and demand the cultivation of a more compassiona ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781901927443 | ISBN 10: 190192744x
"'Maybe it was the best adventure I ever had."(Manu Chao)Colombia, November 1993: a reconstructed old passenger train, bespangled with yellow butterflies, is carrying one hundred musicians, acrobats and artists on a daring adventure through the heart ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847384294 | ISBN 10: 1847384293
May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung May you stay forever young...
Since he first released his self-titled debut in 1962, Bob Dylan has been one of the most celebrated artists of our time. And perhaps nowhere is ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847671141 | ISBN 10: 1847671144
Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution, from the Black Panthers to the Gay Liberation Front, from the Yippies to the IRA. Rock and soul music supplied the revolutionary tide with anthems and iconic ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780745321653 | ISBN 10: 0745321658
Ewan MacColl is one of the outstanding British singers and songwriters of the mid to late twentieth-century, and his work has been covered by artists including Roberta Flack, Johnny Cash and the Pogues. He was also a committed political activist. For ... more
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£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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£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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£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780253217189 | ISBN 10: 0253217180
A lively study of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, one of Africa's most popular and controversial musicians. The flamboyant originator of the 'Afrobeat' sound and self-proclaimed voice of the voiceless, Fela used music, sharp-tongued lyrics and derisive humour ... more
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£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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£10.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780747568018 | ISBN 10: 0747568014
Often described - inadequately - as the John Lennon or Bob Dylan of Brazil, Caetano Veloso is unquestionably one of the most influential and beloved of Brazilian artists and has developed a worldwide following. Now, in his long-awaited memoir, he te ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780717800223 | ISBN 10: 0717800229
The famous Wobbly poet, songwriter and organizer was executed in Salt Lake City on November 19, 1915. Many felt he was not guilty of the murder he was charged with, that he did not have a fair trial, and that he was the victim of class persecution. ... more
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