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Networks of sound, style and subversion : the punk and post-punk worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975-80 / Nick Crossley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Music and society (Series)Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847799937
  • 1847799930
  • 071908864X
  • 9780719088643
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 781.660941/09047 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3534.6.G7 C76 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Networks of sound, style and subversion; Contents; List of figures and tables ; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Music worlds; 3 Explaining punk: a review of existing accounts; 4 Theorising micro-mobilisation: critical mass, collective effervescence, social networks and social space; 5 Micro-mobilisation and the network structure of the London punk world; 6 The evolution of the London network; 7 Punk goes national: broadcast networks, media and moral panics; 8 From punk to post-punk: a tale of three cities; 9 Joining the dots: post-punk worlds as networks.
10 The small world of British post-punk11 Conclusion; References; Videography and discography; Index.
Summary: 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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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 29, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Networks of sound, style and subversion; Contents; List of figures and tables ; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Music worlds; 3 Explaining punk: a review of existing accounts; 4 Theorising micro-mobilisation: critical mass, collective effervescence, social networks and social space; 5 Micro-mobilisation and the network structure of the London punk world; 6 The evolution of the London network; 7 Punk goes national: broadcast networks, media and moral panics; 8 From punk to post-punk: a tale of three cities; 9 Joining the dots: post-punk worlds as networks.

10 The small world of British post-punk11 Conclusion; References; Videography and discography; Index.

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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