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Pub Rock in the UK and Australia: From the 1970s to the Twenty-First Century book cover

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Pub Rock in the UK and Australia From the 1970s to the Twenty-First Century

Edited By Andy Bennett, Jon Stratton Copyright 2026
208 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book critically examines two versions of the genre identified as pub rock as they evolved in the UK and Australia. Both developed in the communal spaces of pubs and both had their heyday in the mid‑ to‑late 1970s. Indeed, the two have so much in common that AC/DC, sometimes thought of as the quintessential Australian pub rock group, became hugely popular in the UK, while other Australian... Read more

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Pub Rock in the UK and Australia
Jon Stratton and Andy Bennett

Section 1: The UK

1. We’re Going Down the Pub!! The Importance of ‘Pub Rock’ Bands in the Creation of Cultural Space for Punk to Emerge in London in the 1970s
Peter Webb
2. If It Ain’t …. Stiff, Chiswick and Pub Rock Records
Nick Crossley
3. Baby Why Do You Treat Me This Way? The Evolving Role of Women, From Pub Rock to Punk (UK, 1970s)
Rebecca Binns
4. Post-Industrial Sounds of the City: The Pub Music Scenes of Leeds in the 1970s and 1980s
Dominic Deane
5. Trick of the Tale: Pub Rock, Punk, Genre and Myth in London and Glasgow in the 1970s
J. Mark Percival
6. The Legacy of the London Pub Rock Scene
Andy Bennett

Section 2: Australia

7. Vanda and Young and the English Sound of Oz Rock in Sydney
Jon Stratton
8. Slightly-soiled Wave: British Pub Rock and Australian New Wave
John Encarnação
9. Coming from the Wrong Side of the Road: Aboriginal Pub Rock in Australia
Suzi Hutchings and Dianne Rodger
10.  Women in Oz Rock: The Forgotten Larrikins
Laura Glitsos
11.  “There’s gonna be a showdown”: Australian Pub Rock in the 1980s to Early 1990s
Paul “Nazz” Oldham
12.  Amyl and the Sniffers: Authenticity, Class and Gender in the Australian Pub Rock Revival
Ben Green and Steven Threadgold

 

 

Biography

Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University and Affiliate Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Porto. He is a Faculty Fellow of the Yale Centre for Cultural Sociology and co‑founding Editor of the journal DIY, Alternative Cultures and Society.

Jon Stratton is Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies in the College of Creative Arts, Design & Humanities at Adelaide University. Jon has published widely in Cultural Studies, Popular Music Studies and on race and multiculturalism. He is the author of 14 books and co‑editor of four. Jon’s most recent book is Spectacle, Fashion and the Dancing Experience in Britain 1960–1990 (2022). Jon is the founder and senior editor on the Bloomsbury series 33 1/3 Oceania.

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