All Outputs (16)

The milieu culture of punk: Beyond the scene - A guide to thinking and researching culture (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter looks at the idea of Milieu Cultures as a tool and theoretical framework through which to examine and understand the culture of, in this example, Punk. The chapter looks at how using the framework of milieu cultures can help us understan... Read More about The milieu culture of punk: Beyond the scene - A guide to thinking and researching culture.

Social embedding, artisanal markets and cultural fields: Quality, value and marketing in the cases of new wave custom motorcycles and boutique guitar pedals (2022)
Book Chapter

Taking two case studies of artisanal production (new wave custom motorcycles and boutique guitar pedals), this chapter argues for the value of adopting a social embedding perspective for understanding artisanal markets. Specifically, it claims that w... Read More about Social embedding, artisanal markets and cultural fields: Quality, value and marketing in the cases of new wave custom motorcycles and boutique guitar pedals.

Hedge and Subculture in the 21st Century: Through the Subcultural Lens (2020)
Book

This book assesses the legacy of Dick Hebdige and his work on subcultures in his seminal work, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). The volume interrogates the concept of subculture put forward by Hebdige, and asks if this concept is still capabl... Read More about Hedge and Subculture in the 21st Century: Through the Subcultural Lens.

Resuscitating the subcultural corpse: A reflection on subculture as lived experience and the importance of class and ethnicity! (2020)
Book Chapter

The chapter addresses the deficiencies of Hebdige's analysis in terms of class and race/ethnicity when looking at Punk subculture in his 1979 book 'Subculture: The meaning of style'. Hebdige focused on Punk as a mainly working class movement but many... Read More about Resuscitating the subcultural corpse: A reflection on subculture as lived experience and the importance of class and ethnicity!.

The visual vaccine debate on Twitter: A social network analysis (2020)
Journal Article

Pro- and anti-vaccination users use social media outlets, such as Twitter, to join conversations about vaccines, disseminate information or misinformation about immunization, and advocate in favour or against vaccinations. These users not only share... Read More about The visual vaccine debate on Twitter: A social network analysis.

Ripped, torn and cut Pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976 (2018)
Book

Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976.

Youth Culture and Social Change: Making a Difference by making a noise (2017)
Book

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The book’s themes are riots, music and gangs, connecting spectacular expression of youthful disaffection with everyday practices. By so doin... Read More about Youth Culture and Social Change: Making a Difference by making a noise.

Leveraging affect: Mobilizing enthusiasm and the co-production of the musical economy (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers the promises and problems of fandom and enthusiasm within capitalism, with particular reference to rise of crowdsourcing as a means of mobilising fan enthusiasm to fund new creative projects, with a particular focus on the musi... Read More about Leveraging affect: Mobilizing enthusiasm and the co-production of the musical economy.

Popular Culture, Hybridity and Hip-Hop (2014)
Book Chapter

Chapter on Hip-Hop, hybridity and globalisation. Examines the theoretical approaches to hybridity and cultural processes. Looks at examples of hip-hop in Germany and hip-hop in the UK but specifically in Bristol.

Crass, subculture and class: The milieu culture of DIY punk (2014)
Book Chapter

Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of 'Consensus' (2014)
Book

This book examines youth cultural responses to the political, economic and socio-cultural changes that affected Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War. In particular, it considers the extent to which elements of youth culture and popular mu... Read More about Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of 'Consensus'.

Angels, Desire and The Vagabond: Cave's journey to a place of ease. (2012)
Book Chapter

Read Write [Hand]: A multi-disciplinary Nick Cave reader is a provocative new e-collection of illustrated essays, accompanied by illustrative online mixtapes, which interrogates Nick Cave’s literary undertones and emphases, false-starts and fixations... Read More about Angels, Desire and The Vagabond: Cave's journey to a place of ease..

Exploring the Networked Worlds of Popular Music Milieux Cultures (2010)
Book

This book provides an `insider’ view of worlds of popular music. It shows the relationship between music, creativity, ideas and localities by looking at cities, independents, genre, globalization and musician’s relationships with each other. Webb exa... Read More about Exploring the Networked Worlds of Popular Music Milieux Cultures.

“Utopian Punk”: The Concept of the Utopian in the Creative Practice of Björk (2010)
Journal Article

ABSTRACT This article is an attempt to firstly locate and situate the creative practice of Björk in the cultural and musical milieu of late 1970s, early 1980s punk and post-punk world. It traces the impacts, relevancies and typifications that were a... Read More about “Utopian Punk”: The Concept of the Utopian in the Creative Practice of Björk.

Infected by the seed of post-industrial punk bohemia: Nick Cave and the Milieu of the 1980s underground (2008)
Journal Article

This article uses the concepts of cultural milieu and music genre to explore the work of Nick Cave in the 1980s and later. Milieu theory is derived from the work of phenomenologists Alfred Schutz and Jorg Durschmitt. The article analyses the transgre... Read More about Infected by the seed of post-industrial punk bohemia: Nick Cave and the Milieu of the 1980s underground.

Accounting for e-commerce: Abstractions, virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital (2005)
Journal Article

This paper considers the phenomenon of e-commerce as an achievement of serial acts of representation and re-representation. Drawing upon the concepts of virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital, we attempt to demonstrate the material consequenc... Read More about Accounting for e-commerce: Abstractions, virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital.