Rock Culture in Liverpool: Popular Music in the Making – Sara Cohen (1991)

This book delineates and discusses rock culture in Liverpool as a way or style of life, highlighting its associated conventions, rituals, norms, and beliefs within the city’s own unique social, economic, cultural, and political environment. It deals with the hitherto little explored music-making by ‘local’, ‘amateur’ rock bands.

A polyethnic London carnival as a contested cultural performance – Abner Cohen (2002)

This is an attempt to articulate the potentialities of carnivals for enacting both hegemonies and oppositional political formations – both are present and this piece examines their relationship and the symbolic politics of carnivals.

The Knebworth Rock Festivals – Chrissie Lytton-Cobbold (1986)

A large-format heavily photographic account of the festivals and gigs held at Knebworth.

Banned! Censorship of Popular Music in Britain:1967-1992 – Martin Cloonan (1996)

This book reveals the previously hidden history of the censorship of popular music in Britain. This is detailed from the point of production in record companies, through retail outlets, attempts to prosecute records (and covers) in radio and television bans and in banned concerts and raves.

The Politics of Pop Festivals – Michael Clarke (1982)

An academic study of festivals. Contains detailed information about free festivals, in particular East Anglia, Windsor. Touches on ‘medieval’- style fairs.

Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City (2nd Edition) – Paul Chevigny (2005)

An account of a unique victory for musicians against repressive entertainment licensing laws with a study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change in law and public attitudes toward vernacular music in New York City.

The Complete Guide to Playing Live – Paul Charles (2004)

A guidebook to negotiating the rock circuit- from formation of an act to interacting with agents, managers and promoters, describing what they (along with technical crew) do and notes on how to work successfully with them. Includes sample expenses sheets and details about the flow of money.

Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans – Daniel Cavicchi (1998)

Based on of ethnographic research amid Springsteen’s fans, and informed by the author’s own experiences as a fan, this is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form special, sustained attachments to a particular artist and his songs, and of how these attachments function in their lives.

Oh, How We Danced! The History of Ballroom Dancing in Scotland – Elizabeth Casciani (1994)

A comprehensive social history of ballroom dancing in Scotland, drawing on research and personal accounts, from the eighteenth century through to the 1990s.

Nights in the Cellar: Bunjies Coffee House – Peter Cadle (1994)

A history of the Bunjies coffee house- central to the folk movements of the 1950s and 1960s and home to performances from artists such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Al Stewart, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn. Features accounts by performers and regulars.

Festivals (48)		Legislation & regulation (40)
Technology (7)		Politics (30)
Tickets & secondary ticketing (8)		Economics (57)
Sustainability & green issues (20)		Strategy (22)

Live Music History (37)		Live Music Places (44)
Live Music People (33)		(Live) Music Industries (66)

Training & practical guides (22)		Miscellaneous (47)

Folk (4)		Metal (1)
Classical & opera (20)		Miscellaneous Genres