Music Subcultures

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...

Greg Graffin Hardcover | 16.13 x 3.81 x 24 cm | 368 pp Hachette | 2022 | 9780306924583 Greg Graffin (b. 1964) is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as "America's most significant punk band." Since its inception in Los Angeles...

Ray Raghunath Cappo Hardcover | 15.24 x 2.79 x 22.86 cm | 368 pp Insight Editions | 2024 | 9781647228682 Ray Cappo (b.1966) was a hardcore punk singer and pioneer of the straight-edge movement living on the Lower East Side of New York City...

Dylan Jones Hardcover | 16.6 x 3.8 x 23.6 cm | 400 pp White Rabbit | 2023 | 9781538756560 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s, The Velvet Underground represent ground...

Chris Roberts Hardcover | 13.34 x 2.29 x 21.59 cm | 192 pp Palazzo Editions | 2022 | 9781786751133 Over half a century since they exploded inevitably onto New York’s underground music and art scenes, the legacy and mythology of The Velvet Underground continues to...

Paul 'Smiler' Anderson, Mark Baxter & Suggs Hardcover | 20.32 x 2.79 x 26.67 cm | 304 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781785584930 Levis, Ben Sherman, Crombie. Reggae, rocksteady, soul. The look and sound of Suedeheads – instantly recognisable in the sixties and early seventies...

Hardcover | 15.88 x 4.06 x 23.5 cm | 352 pp Omnibus Press | 2022 | 9781913172213 Over fifty years on from Britain’s first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through protest songs and gay club nights, street theatre activism and...