9781915672551
300 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Football / Politics
World rights available
This book asks what has happened to English football, and how we can launch a revolution to take back control of the game, and reinvent our society and economy to work in the interests
of the people again.
As owners and organisations continue to exploit English fandom’s love for the game, Football: The People’s Shame is a clarion call to football fans to break out of their passivity and fatalism, and begin to demand something new, offering a workable set of progressive alternatives while also daring to dream big about a complete transformation of our current depressing reality.
Football is more than just a sport. It’s a way of life, a vital social, political and economic dynamo. Fans’ deep and abiding passion
for the game can and should become the engine through which society is reorganised.
MICKY P. KERR is a stand-up comedian, musician and primary school teacher. He’s worked in the education sector for over 15 years and has a life-long obsession with football.
9781915672407
300 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$16.95
Music
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The first ever English-language biography of one of the most fascinating personalities in the history of Western improvised music – and one of the key artistic figures to emerge from the socio-cultural tumult of the 1960s.
Drawing on extensive interviews with Brötzmann and key associates, it traces the German saxophonist’s crucial role as a pioneer of European free jazz, his restless travels and collaborations and his eventual superstardom, examining the life and work of a fiercely uncompromising artist with a reputation for gruff intensity and
total commitment.
Digging deep into the history and aesthetics of free jazz in Europe and beyond, it positions Brötzmann’s work – and the wider free jazz milieu – in the context of the revolutionary, left-wing, humanist and utopian ideals that inspired and underpinned it.
DANIEL SPICER is a writer and poet, and author of The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion: Anadolu Psych. He writes about music for The Wire, Jazzwise, Songlines, WeJazz and The Quietus.