Product Description: The social history of music in Britain since 1950 has long been the subject of nostalgic articles in newspapers and magazines, nostalgic programmes on radio and television and collective memories on music websites, but to date there has been no proper scholarly study...read more

Product Description: Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of the subject. It is a pioneering examination of the ways in which popular music has been deployed in association with violence, ranging from what appears to be an incidental relationship, to one in which music is explicitly applied as an instrument of violence...read more

Product Description: Fans of popular music tend to agree on one thing: popular music is a bellweather of an individual's political and cultural values. In the USA, for example, one cannot think of the counterculture apart from its music. For that reason, in virtually every country in the world, some group identifies popular music as a source of potential danger and wants to regulate it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work describes the history of the censorship of popular music in Britain in the years between 1967 and 1992.

Product Description: This work describes the history of the censorship of popular music in Britain in the years between 1967 and 1992.