Outputs (6)

‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury (2009)
Journal Article
McKay, G. (2009). ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury. Popular Music, 28(3), 341-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143009990109

This article looks at a remarkable cluster of popular musicians who contracted and survived poliomyelitis (‘infantile paralysis’) epidemics through the twentieth century, and ways in which they managed and, to varying extents, explored their polio-re... Read More about ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury.

‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury (2009)
Journal Article
McKay, G. (2009). ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury. Popular Music, 28(3), 341-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143009990109

This article looks at a remarkable cluster of popular musicians who contracted and survived poliomyelitis (‘infantile paralysis’) epidemics through the twentieth century, and ways in which they managed and, to varying extents, explored their polio-re... Read More about ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury.

A soundtrack to the insurrection : street music, marching bands and popular protest (2007)
Journal Article
McKay, G. (2007). A soundtrack to the insurrection : street music, marching bands and popular protest. Parallax, 13(1), 20-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534640601094817

What happens in social movements when people actually move, how does the mobile moment of activism contribute to mobilisation? Are they marching or dancing? How is the space of action, the street itself, altered, re-sounded? The employment of street... Read More about A soundtrack to the insurrection : street music, marching bands and popular protest.

A soundtrack to the insurrection : street music, marching bands and popular protest (2007)
Journal Article
McKay, G. (2007). A soundtrack to the insurrection : street music, marching bands and popular protest. Parallax, 13(1), 20-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534640601094817

What happens in social movements when people actually move, how does the mobile moment of activism contribute to mobilisation? Are they marching or dancing? How is the space of action, the street itself, altered, re-sounded? The employment of street... Read More about A soundtrack to the insurrection : street music, marching bands and popular protest.

Subcultural and social innovations in the campaign for nuclear disarmament (2004)
Journal Article
McKay, G. (2004). Subcultural and social innovations in the campaign for nuclear disarmament. Peace Review, 16(4), 429-438

In times of war and rumours of peace, when ‘terrorism’ and ‘torture’ are being revisited and redefined, one of the things some of us should be doing is talking and writing about cultures of peace. In what follows, I ask questions about the place of c... Read More about Subcultural and social innovations in the campaign for nuclear disarmament.

Subcultural and social innovations in the campaign for nuclear disarmament (2004)
Journal Article
McKay, G. (2004). Subcultural and social innovations in the campaign for nuclear disarmament. Peace Review, 16(4), 429-438

In times of war and rumours of peace, when ‘terrorism’ and ‘torture’ are being revisited and redefined, one of the things some of us should be doing is talking and writing about cultures of peace. In what follows, I ask questions about the place of c... Read More about Subcultural and social innovations in the campaign for nuclear disarmament.