Networks of sound, style and subversion: The punk and post–punk worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975–80 (Music and Society) - Softcover

Crossley, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719088658 ISBN 13: 9780719088650

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 ‘music worlds’.

Written in an accessible style, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in either UK punk and post-punk or the impact of social networks on cultural life and the potential of social network analysis to explore this impact.

About this title

About the Author:

Nick Crossley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester

Review:

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 not just to scholars of punk or post-punk, but also to anyone interested in the process through which musical styles emerge.' Brian F. Wright, Fairmont State University, Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, June 2016 ‘This is the most recent contribution to punk scholarship and in many ways one of the most sophisticated, both in terms of empirical research and data analysis.’ WILKINSON, D., WORLEY, M. and STREET, J. (2016) ‘“I Wanna See Some History”: Recent Writing on British Punk’, Contemporary European History, pp. 1–15

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0719088658
• ISBN 13: 9780719088650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288