Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion

Nick Crossley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester

• 1. Introduction2. Music worlds3. Explaining punk: a review of existing accounts4. Theorising micro-mobilisation: critical mass, collective effervescence, social networks and social space5. Micro-mobilisation and the network structure of the London punk world6. The evolution of the London network7. Punk goes national: broadcast networks, media and moral panic8. From Punk to post-punk: a tale of three cities9. Joining the dots: post-punk worlds as networks10. The small world of British post-punk11. ConclusionIndex

In sum, Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion can be appreciated on a number of different levels: as a case study of micro-mobilisation, as a demonstration of the explanatory powers of social network analysis, and as an account of 1970s punk and post-punk that breathes new life into a well worn subject.'This book should appeal ultimately not just to scholars of punk or post-punk, but also to anyone interested in the process through which musical styles emerge.'Brian F. Wright, Fairmont State University, Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, June 2016‘This is the most recent contribution to punk scholarship and in many ways one of the most sophisticated, both in terms of empirical research and data analysis.’WILKINSON, D., WORLEY, M. and STREET, J. (2016) ‘“I Wanna See Some History”: Recent Writing on British Punk’, Contemporary European History, pp. 1–15