SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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The Northern Soul Scene
Sarah Raine, Tim Wall, Nicola Watchman Smith
The northern soul scene is a dance-based music culture that originated in the English North and Midlands in the early 1970s. It still thrives today with a mix of sixty-year-olds and several generations of new converts, and its celebration of 1960s soul has an international following. This co-produce...
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Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers
Nominated for the 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. A musical companion CD, Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers: British Jazz 1961-1975 (RR026), including ten rare recordings, is available from independent Canadian r...
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Technomad
A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures, Technomad explores the pleasurable and activist trajectories of post-rave. The book documents an emerging network of techno-tribes, exploring their pleasure principles and cultural politics. Attending to sound system culture, elect...
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Consuming Passions
Judith Williamson explores how our cultural tastes, in films, food, television, advertising, music poetry, song lyrics, photography, political movements and even the British Royal Family influence our thinking and how we govern our own lives, and shape those of our children.
The soci...