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Popular Music Fanzines: Genre, Aesthetics, and the “Democratic Conversation” (2010)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2010). Popular Music Fanzines: Genre, Aesthetics, and the “Democratic Conversation”. Popular Music and Society, 33, 517-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007761003694316

Research into fanzines has tended to locate them as subcultural artefacts whose significance is found in their symbolic fit with the subculture responsible for producing them. As a consequence, fanzines have mostly been interpreted homologically as... Read More about Popular Music Fanzines: Genre, Aesthetics, and the “Democratic Conversation”.

Tauchnitz and Albatross: “a community of interests” in English-language paperback publishing 1934-1951. (2006)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2006). Tauchnitz and Albatross: “a community of interests” in English-language paperback publishing 1934-1951. Library, 7, 297-316. https://doi.org/10.1093/library/7.3.297

This article draws on a variety of archival sources to re-examine the relationship between Tauchnitz Editions and the Albatross Press from 1934 to 1951. In particular, it attempts to revise the account of that relationship given in the bibliography o... Read More about Tauchnitz and Albatross: “a community of interests” in English-language paperback publishing 1934-1951..

Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship. (2004)
Journal Article
Wasson, S.-P. (2004). Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship. Extrapolation, 45, 130-144

This article presents a discussion on science fiction related to cloning. Science fiction has long played with the notion of the doubled self, and the speculative potential of the double was extended when the term "human cloning" entered cultural par... Read More about Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship..

A network of inscrutable canyons: wartime London’s sensory landscapes. (2003)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S.-P. (2003). A network of inscrutable canyons: wartime London’s sensory landscapes. In L. Phillips (Ed.), The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London (77-95). Rodopi

Sensory abundance has always been a hallmark of cities, but with the onset of World War II London’s sensory geography was transformed. The resulting city lacked many of the hallmarks of cities before or since, and novels, photographs, and even card... Read More about A network of inscrutable canyons: wartime London’s sensory landscapes..