George Mckay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3878246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Mckay |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckay |
| SIGNATURE | MCKAY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Was punk DIY? Is DIY punk? Interrogating the DIY/punk nexus, with particular reference to the early UK punk scene, c . 1976–1984
This article offers a critical provocation and reconceptualisation of the DIY/punk nexus, both to challenge the standard critical narrative of punk as originary DIY culture and to liberate the broader practice of DIY from the limits of punk. It critically traces the development of the discourse of DIY both in original British punk c. 1976–1984 and in what has become punk studies, mapping the development of the scholarly orthodoxy. It then challen…
Further thoughts, and a maniFesto, on jazz (festivals) and the decolonization of music
This short critical-creative piece originates in an EU-funded project on heritage in improvised music festivals (CHIME). It is a supplement to other recently published research by the author exploring the relation between the touristic offer of certain British jazz festivals and their lack of engagement with the significance of their own civic setting and heritage, focused on festivals held in Georgian or Regency locations (i.e., ones with strong…
Skinny blues
This article discusses an extraordinary body in popular music, that belonging to the person with anorexia which is also usually a gendered body - female - and that of the singer or frontperson. I explore the relation between the anorexic body and popular music, which is more than simply looking at constructions of anorexia in pop. It involves contextually thinking about the (medical) history and the critical reception and representation, the plac…
The Pop Festival
‘I’m going to camp out on the land ... try and get my soul free’. So sang Joni Mitchell in 1970 on ‘Woodstock’. But Woodstock is only the tip of the iceberg. Popular music festivals are one of the strikingly successful and enduring features of seasonal popular cultural consumption for young people and older generations of enthusiasts. From pop and rock to folk, jazz and techno, under stars and canvas, dancing in the streets and in the mud, the pl…
Community music
The United Kingdom has been a pivotal national player within the development of community music practice. There are elements of cultural and debatably pedagogic innovations in community music. These have to date only partly been articulated and historicized within academic research. This report, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, brings together and reviews research under the headings of history and definitions, practice, re…
For One Hand
Crippled with nerves
This article looks at a remarkable cluster of popular musicians who contracted and survived poliomyelitis ('infantile paralysis') epidemics through the twentieth century, and ways in which they managed and, to varying extents, explored their polio-related impairments and experiences in their music. Drawing on medical history and disability studies, it focuses largely on the pop and rock generation of polio survivors - the children and young peopl…
Consumption, Coca-colonisation, Cultural Resistance – and Santa Claus
At least four of the seven deadly sins against which Christianity once railed are now seen by some to be venerated in Christmas celebrations: avarice, gluttony, lust, and envy. The conflict is by no means uniquely American ... but America has contributed the uniquely American Santa Claus and has become an arbiter of Christmas celebrations around the world, primarily because of its part import of European emigrant traditions and its present export…
Subcultural innovations in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(2004). Subcultural innovations in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Peace Review: Vol. 16, SYMPOSIUM: Subcultures and Political Resistance Special Editors: Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco Michacl Ault, California State University, Bakersficld, pp. 429-438
Just a closer walk with thee
This article looks at a particular moment in the relation between popular music and social protest, focusing on the traditional (trad) jazz scene of the 1950s in Britain. The research has a number of aims. One is to reconsider a cultural form dismissed, even despised by critics. Another is to contribute to the political project of cultural studies, via the uncomplicated strategy of focusing on music that accompanies political activism. Here the a…
Metapropaganda
This article engages with recent theoretical work which has developed the notion of texts offering models of reading for their readers. More specifically, it looks at ways in which science-fiction texts position readers, and at the ways in which political texts comment on their own reading processes and propagandizing strategies. A comparative analysis of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and Katharine Burdekin’s neglected feminist dyst…
Time back way back’
Crippled with nerves
This article looks at a remarkable cluster of popular musicians who contracted and survived poliomyelitis ('infantile paralysis') epidemics through the twentieth century, and ways in which they managed and, to varying extents, explored their polio-related impairments and experiences in their music. Drawing on medical history and disability studies, it focuses largely on the pop and rock generation of polio survivors - the children and young peopl…
Just a closer walk with thee
This article looks at a particular moment in the relation between popular music and social protest, focusing on the traditional (trad) jazz scene of the 1950s in Britain. The research has a number of aims. One is to reconsider a cultural form dismissed, even despised by critics. Another is to contribute to the political project of cultural studies, via the uncomplicated strategy of focusing on music that accompanies political activism. Here the a…
Subcultural innovations in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(2004). Subcultural innovations in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Peace Review: Vol. 16, SYMPOSIUM: Subcultures and Political Resistance Special Editors: Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco Michacl Ault, California State University, Bakersficld, pp. 429-438
Time back way back’
Metapropaganda
This article engages with recent theoretical work which has developed the notion of texts offering models of reading for their readers. More specifically, it looks at ways in which science-fiction texts position readers, and at the ways in which political texts comment on their own reading processes and propagandizing strategies. A comparative analysis of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and Katharine Burdekin’s neglected feminist dyst…
Just a closer walk with thee
This article looks at a particular moment in the relation between popular music and social protest, focusing on the traditional (trad) jazz scene of the 1950s in Britain. The research has a number of aims. One is to reconsider a cultural form dismissed, even despised by critics. Another is to contribute to the political project of cultural studies, via the uncomplicated strategy of focusing on music that accompanies political activism. Here the a…
Subcultural innovations in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(2004). Subcultural innovations in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Peace Review: Vol. 16, SYMPOSIUM: Subcultures and Political Resistance Special Editors: Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco Michacl Ault, California State University, Bakersficld, pp. 429-438
Consumption, Coca-colonisation, Cultural Resistance – and Santa Claus
At least four of the seven deadly sins against which Christianity once railed are now seen by some to be venerated in Christmas celebrations: avarice, gluttony, lust, and envy. The conflict is by no means uniquely American ... but America has contributed the uniquely American Santa Claus and has become an arbiter of Christmas celebrations around the world, primarily because of its part import of European emigrant traditions and its present export…
Crippled with nerves
This article looks at a remarkable cluster of popular musicians who contracted and survived poliomyelitis ('infantile paralysis') epidemics through the twentieth century, and ways in which they managed and, to varying extents, explored their polio-related impairments and experiences in their music. Drawing on medical history and disability studies, it focuses largely on the pop and rock generation of polio survivors - the children and young peopl…
For One Hand
Community music
The United Kingdom has been a pivotal national player within the development of community music practice. There are elements of cultural and debatably pedagogic innovations in community music. These have to date only partly been articulated and historicized within academic research. This report, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, brings together and reviews research under the headings of history and definitions, practice, re…
The Pop Festival
‘I’m going to camp out on the land ... try and get my soul free’. So sang Joni Mitchell in 1970 on ‘Woodstock’. But Woodstock is only the tip of the iceberg. Popular music festivals are one of the strikingly successful and enduring features of seasonal popular cultural consumption for young people and older generations of enthusiasts. From pop and rock to folk, jazz and techno, under stars and canvas, dancing in the streets and in the mud, the pl…
Skinny blues
This article discusses an extraordinary body in popular music, that belonging to the person with anorexia which is also usually a gendered body - female - and that of the singer or frontperson. I explore the relation between the anorexic body and popular music, which is more than simply looking at constructions of anorexia in pop. It involves contextually thinking about the (medical) history and the critical reception and representation, the plac…
Further thoughts, and a maniFesto, on jazz (festivals) and the decolonization of music
This short critical-creative piece originates in an EU-funded project on heritage in improvised music festivals (CHIME). It is a supplement to other recently published research by the author exploring the relation between the touristic offer of certain British jazz festivals and their lack of engagement with the significance of their own civic setting and heritage, focused on festivals held in Georgian or Regency locations (i.e., ones with strong…
Was punk DIY? Is DIY punk? Interrogating the DIY/punk nexus, with particular reference to the early UK punk scene, c . 1976–1984
This article offers a critical provocation and reconceptualisation of the DIY/punk nexus, both to challenge the standard critical narrative of punk as originary DIY culture and to liberate the broader practice of DIY from the limits of punk. It critically traces the development of the discourse of DIY both in original British punk c. 1976–1984 and in what has become punk studies, mapping the development of the scholarly orthodoxy. It then challen…
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