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Vendor:Cicada
A Scene In Between: Tripping Through the Fashions of UK Indie Music 1980-1988
Sam Knee & David Conway Hardcover | 17.8 x 2.5 x 20.3 cm | 192 pp Cicada | 2013 | 9781908714060 The mid to late 1980s indie scenes in Britain from C86 to Shoegaze are a lost moment in music history. Theres been much coverage...- £7.50
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Mods: A Way of Life
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...- £10.00
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Vendor:Damiani
Belfast Punk: Warzone Centre 1997-2003
Rick Adam 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...- £15.00
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Vendor:Da Capo Press
Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made (Non-mint)
Steven Miller Softcover | 15.24 x 2.16 x 22.86 cm | 336 pp Da Capo Press | 2016 | 9780306823770 Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made is a vivid journey into the heart of a misunderstood subculture. Through firsthand reporting, including interviews...- £12.00
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Vendor:Café Royal Books
Yan Morvan: London Subculture 1979–1981
Softcover | 14 X 20 cm | 36 pp Café Royal Books | 2021 Café Royal Books, established in 2005, is a small family-run publisher based in England, focussing on documentary photography linked to Britain and Ireland, printed and bound locally by a small...- £5.00
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The Book of Rhyme and Reason: Hip Hop 1994-1997
Hardcover | 22.86 x 2.54 x 27.31 cm | 224 pp Reel Art Press | 2023 | 9781909526891 In the mid-1990s, documentary filmmaker Peter Spirer embarked on a three-year odyssey to create a realistic portrait of hip hop, interviewing over 80 artists. Spirer captured...- £17.50
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Vendor:Faber & Faber
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
Bob Stanley Hardcover | 15.3 x 3.7 x 23.4 cm | 656 pp Faber & Faber | 9780571320257 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 at the...- £10.00
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Cosey Fanni Tutti: Re-Sisters - The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti (Non-mint)
Cosey Fanni Tutti Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm | 400 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571362189 In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire,...- £8.00
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Chris Stein: Point of View - Me, New York City and the Punk Scene
Hardcover | 22.86 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 208 pp Rizzoli | 2018 | 9780847862184 For the duration of the 1970s - from his days as a student at the School of Visual Arts through the foundation of the era-defining New Wave-band Blondie...- £30.00
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Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo
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...- £45.00
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Androgyne: Fashion and Gender
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...- £20.00
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Pretend You're In A War: The Who and The Sixties (Non-mint)
Softcover | 13 x 2.6 x 19.9 cm | 390 pp Aurum | 2014 | 9781781315231 Pete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for The Who's violent live performances. His answer? 'Pretend you're in a war.' For a band as prone to...- £4.50
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Vendor:Profile Books
Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution
Max Décharné Hardcover | 24.2 x 3.3 x 16.4 cm | 336 pp Profile Books | 9781846689789 With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a new era for a generation of teenagers raised on a diet of drab...- £10.00
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