Introduction. Metal on Metal -- The Industrial City -- A Genealogy of 'Industrial City Music' -- Manchester -- Düsseldorf -- Torino -- Tampere -- Industrial Heritages -- From Vanishing Mediator to Cultural Catalyst : Music, Space and Place. "The book offers a new and unique poi…
Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital mediaOld Futures …
"Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976. Sniffin' Glue (1976-77), Mark Perry's iconic punk fanzine, was but the first of…
Was haben Analsex, das iPad und Barack Obama gemeinsam? Sie sind Produkte von Nextopia: der Erwartungsgesellschaft. Sie ist unsere Zukunft. Leben, Glück und Geld - nichts bleibt in ihr, wie es war! Das nächste Smartphone, der nächste Partner, der nächste Job: Es kommt immer etwa…
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous and wonderfully strange music created in the years after punk.
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 massÂ’, ‘social networksÂ’ and ‘music worldsÂ’, and using sophisticated techniques of ‘social network analysisÂ’, …
This dissertation explores the complex relationships between the municipal government and marginalized groups in New York City during the early 1970s, namely Afro-Caribbean immigrant communities in the South Bronx and genderqueer bohemian communities in Lower Manhattan. Through …
This thesis examines how select participants came to be involved in DiY punk culture, what they do in it, and how, if they do, they exit from the culture. Underpinning this will be an ethnographic examination of how the ethics of punk informs their views of remaining authentic a…