Electric Shock: 125 Years of Pop
Peter Doggett

• Thursday 9 June 2016, 7.40PM to 8.30pm
• Free admission
  Booking required
• Ron Cooke Hub, University of York (map|getting to campus)
• Wheelchair accesible

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Peter Doggett is the author of Electric Shock: 125 Years of Pop, a definitive cultural history of popular music from Ragtime to the X Factor. Find out why pop has always outraged parents and politicians, and how its role in our lives has changed – from the earliest days of the gramophone to today’s download culture.

About the speaker

Peter Doggett has been writing about popular music and social history for more than 30 years. Besides Electric Shock, he has written acclaimed books about the Beatles, David Bowie and revolutionary 1960s politics.

Waterstones

The book will be available to buy from the Waterstones' stall at this event.

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