Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion

Nick Crossley

ISBN 10: 0719088658 / ISBN 13: 9780719088650

Published by Manchester University Press, GB, 2015

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion
• Publisher: Manchester University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719088658
• ISBN 13: 9780719088650
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 23.11W x 2.79H x 15.49D centimeters 23.11 centimeters width by 2.79 centimeters height by 15.49 centimeters depth
• Weight: 399 grams

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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 the Author

Nick Crossley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester