Watkins Media: 710 books
Red Set
A History Gang of Four
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Based on detailed interviews with band members, Red Set considers the music, art and politics that shaped Gang of Four and how the band, in turn, left an indelible mark on popular music.
In the autumn of 1976, two young British Fine Arts students travelled to New York on a university grant,...
by Robert Barry
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it's a history of failures, mapping 200 years of attempts by composers, performers and critics to imagine a future for music. Encompassing utopian...
Triptych
An Examination of the Manic Street Preachers Holy Bible
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The UK alternative rock band, Manic Street Preachers, were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and one of the most compelling...
Under My Thumb
Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Women write about their experiences of loving music that doesn’t love them back – a feminist 'guilty pleasures'.e - a kind of feminist guilty pleasures.
In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls,...
by Sue Clayton, Kodwo Eshun, Green Gartside
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of these times seem so newly pertinent to our political...
Restoration
The World House Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
NONE WHO ENTER THE WORLD HOUSE LEAVE IT UNCHANGED. In some rooms, forests grow; animals roam and objects come to life. Great secrets and treasures await the brave or foolhardy. And at the very top of the house, the prisoner it was all built to contain sat behind a locked door waiting for the key to...
by Guy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Combining the puzzle box of Hellraiser with the explorartion of Tad Williams' Otherland series, this is the perfect blend of fantasy and adventure, an exceptional modern fantasy debut.
THERE IS A BOX. INSIDE THAT BOX IS A DOOR. AND BEYOND THAT DOOR IS A WHOLE WORLD.
In some rooms, forests...
Smile If You Dare
Politics and Pointy Hats With The Pet Shop Boys
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
A creative analysis of the The Pet Shop Boys’ fifth album “Very,” Smile If You Dare examines topics as diverse as technological paradise, sexual paranoia and representations of class in British pop music. As well as a keen critical edge, itis equipped with an undisguised mad love for the source...
Down with Childhood
Pop Music and the Crisis of Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades.
So claims Down with Childhood, as it takes in psychedelia’s preoccupation with rebirth and inner-children,...
The Turkish Psychedelic Explosion
Anadolu Psych 1965-1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The long forgotten story of Turkish psychedelic music in the twentieth century, told in relation to the social, political and cultural climate of the time.
In the mid-1960s, a new generation of young Turkish musicians combined Western pop music with traditional Anatolian folk to forge the home-grown...
Authentocrats
Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
"The Authentocrats" claim to the be the new voice of common sense that speak for the common man and woman; right-wing, traditional and dangerous, Joe Kennedy argues that they are everything but what they purport to be.
In contemporary Britain, a lot has been said about what it is...
by David Stubbs
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
1996 And The End of History examines the year as it panned out in the UK not just in politics but in music, light entertainment and sport. It was the zenith of a decade which will go down as remarkably untroubled bymodern standards; following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, prior to 9/11, in which...
The Silent Army
Seven Forges Book IV
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The City of Wonders has been saved by nearly miraculous forces and the Silent Army is risen, ready to defend the Fellein Empire and Empress Nachia at any cost.
The power that was hidden in the Mounds is on the move, seeking a final confrontation with the very entities that kept it locked away...
No Less Than Mystic
A History of Lenin and the Russian Revolution for a 21st-Century Left
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes.
Although it offers a full and complete history of Leninism, 1917, the Russian...