In Why Don't We Do It In The Road? the author looks back to the 1960s and the global phenomenon surrounding four young men from Liverpool . . .The names and the songs are well known, but the "why?" is more difficult to locate - even with hindsight - against the glare of the music industry's powerful, myth-making apparatus. . . John Astley deploys his forensic skills as a sociologist of culture to develop an original take on the kaleidoscopic landscape that gave birth to The Beatles phenomenon . . . The reader is invited to take a peep back into the recent past - at the post-War years in...
In Why Don't We Do It In The Road? the author looks back to the 1960s and the global phenomenon surrounding four young men from Liverpool . . .The nam...
In Herbivores and Carnivores, John Astley offers insights on closed or cloaked subject: the struggle for democratic cultural values in post-War Britain. The materials vary in content, but a central theme emerges: as individual members of society, we so often seem to adhere - the author suggests - to strictly limited choices with pre-packaged versions of the way we live our lives. If this is so, then why, and from where, do cultural values spring? Whose interests are being promoted? And, if this is so, who writes the scripts? In his flagship essay, with support from companion pieces as...
In Herbivores and Carnivores, John Astley offers insights on closed or cloaked subject: the struggle for democratic cultural values in post-War Britai...
In Access to Eden, John Astley explores the influences that shaped the original public sector housing ideals in Britain. The essay surveys the cultural and legislative strands in a narrative that reveals the origins of public sector housing with company housing (such as Port Sunlight), the Arts and Crafts movement, with architects such as Baillie Scott, the Garden City pioneer Ebenezer Howard, and urban planners such as Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker. In light of these background perspectives, the author considers (in the the aftermath of the 1914-18 War) the impact of the Housing Acts of...
In Access to Eden, John Astley explores the influences that shaped the original public sector housing ideals in Britain. The essay surveys the cult...
