Networks of sound style and subversion

<p>This book examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation within a short period of time into post-punk. Deploying innovative concepts of 'critical mass' 'social networks' and 'music worlds' and using sophisticated techniques of 'social network analysis' it teases out the events and mechanisms involved in punk's 'micro-mobilisation' its diffusion across the UK and its transformation in certain city-based strongholds into a variety of interlocking post-punk forms. Nick Crossley offers a detailed review of prior work in this area a rich exploration of new empirical data and a highly innovative and robust approach to the study of 'music worlds'.<br><br>Written in an accessible style this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in either UK punk and post-punk or the impact of social networks on cultural life and the potential of social network analysis to explore this impact.</p>