All Outputs (8)

Mind usurps program : virtuality and the “new machine aesthetic” of electronic dance music (2016)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2016). Mind usurps program : virtuality and the “new machine aesthetic” of electronic dance music. In S. Whiteley, & S. Rambarran (Eds.), Oxford University Press Handbook of Music and Virtuality. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press

This chapter outlines the changes in perceptions of Electronic Dance Music across the phase of the introduction of virtuality. The chapter argues that such music must be read in relation to its conception of its audience, and that the audience, often... Read More about Mind usurps program : virtuality and the “new machine aesthetic” of electronic dance music.

From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968 (2014)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2014). From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968. In S. Whiteley, & J. Sklower (Eds.), Countercultures and Popular Music (187-202). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574479

Publisher's description of book: ’Counterculture’ emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and socio-political phenomena. This volume provides an essential new academ... Read More about From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968.

Christmas and war (2008)
Book Chapter
Agius, C. (2008). Christmas and war. In S. Whiteley (Ed.), Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture (137-148). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance--and Santa Claus (2008)
Book Chapter
Mckay, G. (2008). Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance--and Santa Claus. In S. Whiteley (Ed.), Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture (50-70). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

In what ways has the iconography and practice of Christmas been shaped, understood and consumed as an American experience? This chapter explores explains and questions the ideological valence of Christmas in part as an American socio-economic and cul... Read More about Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance--and Santa Claus.

From the dawn of the Sabbath ... metal was born (2007)
Thesis
Cope, A. From the dawn of the Sabbath ... metal was born. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

The early 1990s saw the publication of important academic works on the subject of heavy metal music. These works were seminal in that they were the first to recognise and interrogate, in any substantial way, a topic that had been, until then, value... Read More about From the dawn of the Sabbath ... metal was born.

Popular music and the dynamics of desire (2006)
Book Chapter
Whiteley, S. (2006). Popular music and the dynamics of desire. In S. Whiteley, & J. Rycenga (Eds.), Queering the popular pitch (249-262). CRC Press

An investigation into the emergence of the anarcho-punk scene of the 1980s (2004)
Thesis
Dines, M. An investigation into the emergence of the anarcho-punk scene of the 1980s. (Thesis). University of Salford, UK

This thesis aims to investigate the way in which anarchism - both as a means of theoretical political dissent as well as a practical tool of shock - was transformed from the `chaotic' intent of first wave punk towards a more informed political ide... Read More about An investigation into the emergence of the anarcho-punk scene of the 1980s.

The impact of Norwegian folk music on Norwegian jazz, 1945-1995 (2003)
Thesis
Dickenson, J. The impact of Norwegian folk music on Norwegian jazz, 1945-1995. (Thesis). University of Salford, UK

My research explores the interrelationship between Norwegian folk music and Norwegian jazz from 1945 to 1995 (with updates to 2002) and assesses the extent to which the results can now be considered as constituting an indigenous art form. A short... Read More about The impact of Norwegian folk music on Norwegian jazz, 1945-1995.