Toby Manning
Toby Manning’s Mixing Pop and Politics: a Marxist History of Popular Music will be published by Repeater in 2022.
Twitter: @TobyManning
Articles by Toby Manning:
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‘Children of the Revolution’: Glam Rock and the 70s
Glam, in all its queer, communal, proletarian glory, is the soundtrack to a militant 70s that we must reclaim for the left.
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‘Come 2 the park and play with us!’: Prince, acid communism, and sociality
In expressing joy in the social, creating lived utopias beyond the family, and destabilising normality, Prince is a key example and practitioner of acid communism.
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Back to 'Between the Wars'?
Billy Bragg’s 1985 hit remains both a rallying cry and a warning.