Mixing Pop and Politics
A Marxist History of Popular Music
$52.00
- Paperback
600 pages
- Release Date
23 July 2024
Summary
From rock’n’roll to contemporary pop, Mixing Pop and Politics is a provocative and entertaining mash-up of music and Marxist theory.
A radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years, told through the period’s most popular music. Mixing Pop and Politics is not a history of political music, but a political history of popular music. Spanning the early 50s to the present, it shows how, from doo-wop to hip-hop, punk to crunk and grunge to grime…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913462673 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913462676 |
| Author: | Toby Manning |
| Publisher: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Imprint: | Repeater Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 600 |
| Release Date: | 23 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm |
About The Author
Toby Manning
Toby Manning is the author of The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd (2006) and John le Carre and the Cold War (2018). His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, Sight and Sound, Arena, The Face, NME, Select, Q and The Word. He has taught at the University of Birmingham, Brunel and Queen Mary universities, and City Lit College, London. Having grown up in North Wales and lived all over the UK, he now lives in London.
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