Music Subcultures

Ricky Adam Hardcover | 22.35 x 2.29 x 29.97 cm | 176 pp Damiani | 2017 | 9788862085106 The ‘Warzone Collective’ began in 1984 in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland when a few local punks decided to consolidate their efforts and get their...

Peter Watts Hardcover | 24 x 3.7 x 32 cm | 480 pp Anthology Editions | 2017 | 9781944860158 Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the...

Tony Fletcher & Billy Bragg Softcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 288 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781913172305  One of Britain’s best-loved and most successful fanzines, Jamming! documented the musical landscape as it evolved between 1977 and 1986. An immensely evocative read...

Softcover | 11 x 1.1 x 18.5 cm | 150 pp Kicks Books | 2012 | 9780965977760 Rare & Collectible The autobiography of legendary music producer Kim Fowley told in his own poetry and prose. Kim Vincent Fowley (1939-2015) was an American record producer, songwriter...

Mark Paytress Hardcover | 20.32 x 2.79 x 26.67 cm | 304 pp Omnibus Press | 2022 | 9781913172282 This is a triumphant bid to capture lightning in a bottle! Glam came and went in a few short years, but renowned music journalist Mark...

Hardcover | 24.89 x 2.29 x 34.29 cm | 192 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500519356  The first visually led exploration of androgyny, the combination of female and male characteristics, from representations in antiquity to its current prevalence in the fashion world...

Darryl W. Bullock Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.56 x 23.5 cm | 368 pp Omnibus Press | 2023 | 9781913172527  This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from...

Softcover | 15.49 x 1.78 x 21.59 cm | 240 pp Kehrer | 2003 | 9783933257963  Being a young photographer, Sandra Mann decided to portray her own generation, or rather her generation's nightlife. She captures the nightly scenes in clubs and discotheques not only...

Patrick Potter Hardcover | 16.5 x 22 cm | 192 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2018 | 9781908211590 Sometime around the beginning of the 1960’s, a number of stars aligned. A small but fanatical group of young men and women, mostly no more than...

Peter Gravelle Hardcover | 23 x 2.3 x 29.1 cm | 216 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2016 | 9781908211415 From the filth and the fury to the elegant extravaganza, Peter Gravelle, the many named photographer, has remained in the shadows of punk rock,...

Nicole Trevillian Softcover | 15.24 x 0.64 x 20.96 cm | 112 pp Edizioni Charta | 2009 | 9788881587513 Nicole Trevillan's London Club is a series of fashion photographs from influential new-music nightclubs in London between 2000 and 2010. The club night Trash, founded in...

Paul Bergen Hardcover | 28.19 x 2.79 x 34.29 cm | 256 pp teNeues | 2022 | 9783961714124 This is the most comprehensive and exhaustive collection of pictures of the music of the 1990s. David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana, Oasis, Pete Doherty, Phil Collins, Prince, Motörhead...

Martin Popoff Hardcover in slipcase | 26.64 x 2.49 x 27.13 cm | 176 pp Motorbooks | 2023 | 9780760379271  Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever with this beautifully produced and authoritatively written slipcased edition. Veteran rock critic Martin Popoff leaves...

Anna Doble Hardcover | 16.3 x 3 x 24.2 cm | 304 pp Nine Eight Books | 2024 | 9781788709484 It is 1994. In a loft bedroom in North Yorkshire, fifteen-year-old Anna sits on the carpet immersed in the pages of Smash Hits, listening to...

Luke Haines Hardcover | 14.5 x 2.9 x 22.6 cm | 320 pp Nine Eight Books | 2024 | 9781788709347 Musician and author Luke Haines embarks on an odyssey through the ages, exploring how the 'freaks' infiltrated modern culture - and almost won the rock...

Hardcover | 24.77 x 2.54 x 33.66 cm | 187 pp Rare Bird Books | 2023 | 9781644282496 This wonderful body of photographs was created by Syd Shelton for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976–1981. For Shelton, this work...

Hardcover | 22 x 3.56 x 29 cm | 272 pp ACC Art Books | 2023 | 9781788842341 Normski was a vital witness to the period known as the Golden Age of Rap, when big US artists like Run DMC, LL Cool J and...

Bob Stanley Softcover | 15.3 x 3.7 x 23.4 cm | 656 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571372195 Let's Do It is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record...

Kembrew McLeod Hardcover | 15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm | 368 pp Harry N. Abrams | 2018 | 9781419732522 In the 1960s and early 1970s, the inhabitants of a small, roughly one-square-mile area of lower Manhattan were smashing the status quo of music, art, film, performance, and...

Bill Peel Softcover | 12.95 x 1.52 x 19.81 cm | 200 pp Repeater Books | 2023 |  9781914420368 A radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music, Tonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black...