Peter Webb

 

Dr. Peter Webb is a writer, lecturer and musician who specializes in research into popular and contemporary music, subcultures, politics and social theory. He is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of England, Bristol. Webb previously worked within an independent record label from 1990 – 2002 as an artist and tour manager, the physical theatre companies Blast Theory and Intimate Strangers and the film company Parallax Pictures. He is the Owner and Creative Director of the publishing company PC-Press – which has published books about Test Dept, Killing Joke and Massive Attack. He is currently making music with a project called New Brand

Keynote Lecture

From Lunatic Fringe to world-wide Massive – The Bristol Sound an insider perspective

Publications

Webb, P. (2023). The milieu culture of punk: Beyond the scene – A guide to thinking and researching culture. In A. Bennett (Ed.). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture (71 – 86). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Available from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10487033

Webb, P. (2020). Resuscitating the subcultural corpse: A reflection on subculture as lived experience and the importance of class and ethnicity! In Gildart, K., Gough-Yates, A., Lincoln, S., Osgerby, B., Robinson, L., Street, J., Webb, P., & Worley, M. (Eds.). Hebdige and Subculture in the Twenty-First Century: Through the sub-cultural lens. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28475-6. Available from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6690970

Milani, E., Weitkamp, E. & Webb, P. (2020). The visual vaccine debate on Twitter: A social network analysis. Media and Communication, 8(2), 364-375. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2847. Available from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5956303

Hyder, R. (2020). Syncretic youth: The phantom legacy of Hebdige’s subculture—The meaning of style. In Gildart, K., Gough-Yates, A., Lincoln, S., Osgerby, B., Robinson, L., Street, J., Webb, P., & Worley, M. (Eds.). Hebdige and Subculture in the Twenty-First Century: Through the sub-cultural lens. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28475-6_7. Available from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6855523

Gildart, K., Gough-Yates, A., Lincoln, S., Osgerby, B., Robinson, L., Street, J., …Morley, M. (Eds.). (2018). Ripped, torn and cut Pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Available from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/3866500

Webb, P. (2017). P. Webb, M. Worley, L. Robinson, J. Street, B. Osgerby, S. Lincoln, …K. Gildart (Eds.), Youth Culture and Social Change: Making a Difference by making a noise. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan. Available from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/879086

Webb, P. (2014). Popular Culture, Hybridity and Hip-Hop. In A. Brooks (Ed.), Popular Culture: Global Intercultural Perspectives (88 -106). Basingstoke: Macmillan Education UK. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-42672-7. Available from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/3866076

Webb, P. (2014). Crass, subculture and class: The milieu culture of DIY punk. In Subcultures Network (Ed.). Fight back: Punk, Politics and Resistance. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Available from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1786802

 

 

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