Simon Webster: 4 books
Daytripper
52 great days out in the Sydney area
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
An invaluable guide to the Sydney area. Journalist Simon Webster has compiled the best daytrips from his weekly SUN HERALD column and added many new ones to give you a great choice of days out in the Sydney area.Ranging from the quirky, such as Janet's Royalty Room where you can be amazed at the vast...
Stay, Illusion!
The Hamlet Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the ghost haunts Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane. Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us. Everyone knows at least six words from Hamlet, and most people know many more. Yet the play—Shakespeare’s longest—is more than “passing strange,”...
The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967
From Dance Hall to the 100 Club
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The social history of music in Britain since 1950 has long been the subject of nostalgic articles in newspapers and magazines, nostalgic programmes on radio and television and collective memories on music websites, but to date there has been no proper scholarly study. The three volumes of The History...
The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume II, 1968-1984
From Hyde Park to the Hacienda
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
To date, there has been a significant gap in work on the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so through a unique prism—that of live music. The key theme of the books is the changing nature of the live...