{"product_id":"mixing-pop-and-politics-isbn-9781913462673","title":"Mixing Pop and Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom rock’n’roll to contemporary pop, \u003ci\u003eMixing Pop and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative and entertaining mash-up of music and Marxist theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years, told through the period's most popular music.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMixing Pop and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is not a history of political music, but a political history of popular music. Spanning the early 50s to the present, it shows how, from doo-wop to hip-hop, punk to crunk and grunge to grime, music has both reflected and resisted the political events of its era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMixing Pop and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e explores the connections between popular music and political ideology, whether that’s the liberation of rock’n’roll or the containment of girl groups, the refusal of glam or the resignation of soft rock, the solidarity of disco or the individualism of 80s pop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when reactionary forces are waging political war in the realm of culture, and we’re being told to keep politics out of music, \u003ci\u003eMixing Pop and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely, original and joyful exploration of popular music’s role in our society.“An ambitious and much-needed reckoning with the way pop music has soundtracked social change, political conflict and utopian dreaming over the past seven decades. What stands out is the way Manning refuses the conventional opposition between emotional or aesthetic readings of pop and ‘political’ readings, brilliantly illuminating how all three are in the mix with one another.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e— \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr David Wilkinson\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eSenior Lecturer in English, \u003ci\u003eManchester Metropolitan University\u003c\/i\u003e and author of\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003ePost-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eA monumental, committed analysis of the politics of popular music. Manning brings to his writing a profound knowledge of popular music history and a clear-eyed commitment to the radical possibilities of popular culture. The story he tells is tangled, but ultimately hopeful; even in the worst of times, popular music always retains the ability to claw its way back to utopia.\u003ci\u003e\" \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eDr David Pattie\u003c\/b\u003e, Senior Lecturer University of Birmingham, co-editor of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTalking Heads \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Velvet Underground: What Goes On\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"This excellent, alternative history of pop and rock lucidly and convincingly asserts that politics in music extends beyond the usual suspects - Billy Bragg, The Clash and so on. Manning shows how, from Elvis to hip-hop, pop’s inherent desire for better things is supremely political. \u003ci\u003eMixing Pop And Politics\u003c\/i\u003e surveys pop history not out of nostalgia for the dead past but as a resource to dare hope for, and achieve, a better future.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e— David Stubbs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e1996 and the End of Histor\u003c\/i\u003ey\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMars by 1980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"This is a landmark work that brings a complex analytical framework to bear on the entire past 70 years of Anglophone pop music history. It seems extraordinary that nobody has tried to tell the whole story of modern pop while deploying the Western Marxist conceptual toolkit (Gramsci, Adorno, Marcuse, Williams, etc): but they haven’t, until now. The result is well worth the wait, and will be a key reference point for politically and sociologically informed cultural criticism for years to come.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e— Jeremy Gilbert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwenty-First Century Socialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An accessible, characterful popular history rather than a dry definitional textbook, Manning’s study is surely the first really cogent attempt to present a birdseye-view Marxist chronology of pop music from the time of Lonnie Donegan to our present tense of Olivia Rodrigo and Oliver Anthony.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Alex Niven, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eToby Manning\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rough Guide to Pink Floyd\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) and J\u003ci\u003eohn le Carré and the Cold War \u003c\/i\u003e(2018). His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, Sight and Sound, Arena, The Face, NME, Select, Q\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Word\u003c\/i\u003e. He has taught at the University of Birmingham, Brunel and Queen Mary universities, and City Lit College, London. Having grown up in North Wales and lived all over the UK, he now lives in London.","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302630412517,"sku":"NP9781913462673","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781913462673.jpg?v=1767732836","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mixing-pop-and-politics-isbn-9781913462673","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}