Description
Book SynopsisThis 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'
Trade ReviewIn 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
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Table of Contents1 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 panic
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-punk
11 Conclusion
Index
