Index

• acid house, 6, 9, 73, 75, 88, 89, 100, 106, 116, 120, 129, 130–1, 132–6, 139–40, 143–6, 152, 153–4, 155–60
• Adorno, Theodor, 1, 34, 94, 109
• Afro-American, Afro-Caribbean music culture, see black music culture
• age, 5, 7–8, 11, 12, 14–25, 53–5, 101–3, 113
• alcohol, 20–1, 57
• American comparisons, 3, 16–20, 44, 45–6, 53, 54–6, 136
• archival disc cultures, 69–70
• aura, 27–8, 30–1, 69–70, 74, 76, 80–1, 85, 125

• ballrooms, 36, 39–40, 45, 47, 53–5, 58
• banning, see censorship
• Baudrillard, Jean, 1, 33, 42–3, 52
• BBC, 36, 53, 122–3, 129–31, 145, 160; see also Radio One; Top of the Pops
• Becker, Howard, 8–9, 119
• Benjamin, Walter, 27, 52, 69–70
• Birmingham cultural studies tradition, 8–10, 24–5, 110, 118–19, 121, 152
• black music culture, 7, 15, 16–17, 30, 44, 47, 68, 69–70, 71–6, 105, 108, 113, 147; see also race
• Bourdieu, Pierre, 10–14, 92, 99, 101–3, 113, 117, 166
• broadcasting, 122, 124; see also BBC; Radio One; Top of the Pops

• cars, 16–17
• CDs, 63–4
• censorship, 129–31, 145
• chartpop, see pop
• charts, 58–9, 100, 123, 130
• cinema, see film
• class and classlessness, 12–13, 15, 55–6, 90–1, 93–6, 101–3, 105, 167
• clothes, 55, 99, 113–14
• Cohen, Stanley, 119–20
• commodities, 28, 36
• compilation albums, 118
• concert designers, 79
• copyright, 37–41, 49, 50, 85
• Cosgrove, Stuart, 157
• cover/copy bands, 28, 81

• dancehalls, see ballrooms; Mecca dancing, 4, 12, 14–16, 21, 35–6, 52, 57, 58, 60, 62, 65, 71, 93, 103, 106
• disc jockeys, 4, 29, 30, 59–66, 112, 139
• disco music, 2, 43–4, 47, 59, 69, 71
• discotheque, as an institution, 1, 14, 24, 28, 54; mobile, 46–7; see also interior design
• DJs, see disc jockeys
• door policies, 24, 113–14
• drugs, 21–2, 57, 79, 88–91, 105, 123, 130–5, 138, 145–6, 150, 164–5

• electronic mail, 150
• enculturation, 28–9, 33–5, 58, 60, 66
• ethnography, see methodology

• Face, The, 87, 153–4
• fads, 2, 22, 43, 46, 98, 122, 132, 153, 155
• fanzines, 118, 122, 134, 137, 138–41
• fashion, see fads
• film, 19, 37, 46, 57, 68
• flyers, 122, 137, 141–2
• formats, 58–60
• Frith, Simon, 29, 36, 95–7, 125, 151

• gatekeeping, 130, 145
• gay and lesbian club culture, 6, 16, 30, 44, 69, 72, 73, 75, 96, 99, 105, 108, 111–12, 113, 146; see also sexuality
• gender, 5, 8, 13, 15, 21, 56, 72, 95, 99–100, 103–5, 113, 139
• genre, 66, 70–6, 100, 106, 152, 155–8
• globalization, 3, 21, 46, 54–5, 70, 150; see also imports
• Grossberg, Lawrence, 97–8

• Hebdige, Dick, 9, 93–4, 114, 164–5
• hiphop, 20, 71, 72, 113, 153
• Hitman and Her, The, 109, 126–7
• house music, 31, 63, 71–6, 125, 126

• i-D, 154, 158–60
• imports, 3, 53, 54, 66–7, 68–9, 155, 156–7, 158; see also globalization
• interior design, 51, 53–7, 125–6
• internet, 150

• jazz, 7, 66–7
• jukebox, 36, 45–6, 56, 58
• jungle music, 71, 73

• KISS-FM, 146–50

• labelling, 8, 53, 104, 106, 119, 143, 159, 162
• leisure, 19, 20, 91, 101–2, 129, 157
• lesbian clubs, see gay and lesbian club culture
• listings, 137, 142–6
• live music, 4, 20, 26–7, 29–31, 32–3, 37, 41–4, 47–51, 66, 67–8, 70, 76–85, 125–6
• London Records, 150

• McLuhan, Marshall, 33, 70
• McRobbie, Angela, 8, 21, 65, 94–5
• magazines, 120, 122, 123, 130, 132–4, 136, 151–60, 162
• Manzi, Eugene, 156–7
• marketing, 120, 121, 125, 141
• Mecca dancehalls/clubs, 93–4, 99, 107–8
• Melody Maker, 133
• methodology, 2–3, 87–98, 105–10, 114–15, 118, 120–1, 152
• Monopolies and Mergers Commission, 49
• moral panic, 119–20, 129, 131–7, 145
• MTV, 18, 122, 124, 126
• Mungham, Geoff, 93–4, 96, 113
• music press, see magazines
• Musicians’ Union, 32, 35, 38–43, 49–50, 52

• narrowcasting, 122, 147; see also Hitman and Her (The); KISS-FM; MTV
• New Musical Express (NME), 132
• newspapers, 131; see also tabloid newspapers
• Northern Soul, 69–70
• nostalgia, 70, 140

• participant observation, see methodology
• performance, see live music
• personal stereo, see Walkman
• Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL), 38–9, 49–50
• pirate radio, 122, 137, 146–50
• politics, 137, 164–8
• Polsky, Ned, 9, 105
• pop, 13, 20, 72, 99, 104
• postmodernity, 7, 97, 121, 160–2
• public appearance (PA), 31, 82–5
• pubs, 20–2

• race, 7, 15, 16–17, 24–5, 30, 44, 68, 72–6, 105, 113, 147; see also black music culture
• radio, 13, 36, 68, 109, 122, 123, 129–31, 146–50
• Radio One (1FM), 129–31, 147
• Rampling, Danny, 139, 143, 145
• rare groove, 69, 153, 158
• raves, 3, 9, 14, 22–5, 29–30, 47, 55–6, 57, 60, 83–4, 88–9, 90–2, 100, 116, 135, 139, 140, 144–5
• record hops, 4, 28, 44, 52–4
• record industry, 12, 35–8, 46, 48, 50, 61, 136; see also copyright; London Records; Monopolies and Mergers Commission; Phonographic Performance Limited; Virgin Records
• reggae, 68–9
• rock, 31, 70–1, 76–85
• rock’n’roll, 67–8, 71

• samplers/sampling, 2, 72
• segregation, 22–5, 111–14
• selling out, 123–5, 128, 136, 145
• sexuality, 6–7, 30, 99, 105, 111–13
• Shoom, 143–6, 158–9
• singles sales chart, see charts social stratification, 5, 7–8, 10, 92–8, 101–2, 166
• sound quality, 44, 58
• sound-systems, 47, 68–9
• Stock/Aitken/Waterman, 99, 100, 109, 126–7
• Straw, Will, 59, 110
• street, the, 18, 138, 141, 148
• style, see clothes
• subcultural capital, definitions of 11–14, 98–105
• subculture, definition and development of, 8–9, 117, 119, 152, 158–62
• Sun, the, 109, 121, 129, 131–5

• tabloid newspapers, 75, 100, 120, 121, 122, 129, 131
• taste in music, 2, 13, 19–20, 43–4, 53, 112–13, 164
• techno, 31, 72–7, 100, 125, 129
• telephone, 17–18
• television, 13, 18, 53, 68, 109, 121–2, 123–9
• Time Out, 143–6
• time/temporality, 51–3, 69–70
• Top of the Pops, 109, 121, 123–6, 128, 129, 155
• top ten, top forty, see charts
• twelve-inch single, 58–60, 66, 117–18

• video, 57, 79–80, 123–6, 127, 140
• vinyl, death of, 63–4
• Virgin Records, 74–5
• virtual reality, 110

• Walkman, 19–20
• Waterman, Pete, 126–7; see also Stock/Aitken/Waterman
• white labels, 69, 117–18; see also twelve-inch single
• Willis, Paul, 9, 152
• women, see gender
• work, 90–1, 101–2

• Young, Jock, 21, 164–5
• youth, see age