Mixing Pop and Politics
@tobylmanning.bsky.social
Toby Manning: writer, activist
I wrote about Tom Waits for the Quietus.
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Shine like a new Dime: Tom Waits' Rain Dogs at 40 | The Quietus
Tom Waits' Rain Dogs was the antithesis of Reagan's America, giving voice to a choir of NYC outsiders even as gentrification was taking over.
thequietus.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I wrote about Tom Waits for the Quietus.
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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This is a fine survey of a writer I enjoy somewhat shamefully, with the aside that when opposition political parties are burgled here it doesn't result in Watergate but a couple of scenes in a thriller
I wrote this: jacobin.com/2025/04/john...
John le Carré Made Great Art Out of Cold War Ideology
John le Carré was one of the great postwar novelists, converting the experience of Cold War espionage into brilliant works of literature. Yet he did so without really questioning the ruling doctrines ...
jacobin.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This is a fine survey of a writer I enjoy somewhat shamefully, with the aside that when opposition political parties are burgled here it doesn't result in Watergate but a couple of scenes in a thriller
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Thought-provoking and in depth Le Carré analysis by @tobylmanning.bsky.social @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/04/john...
jacobin.com/2025/04/john...
John le Carré Made Great Art Out of Cold War Ideology
John le Carré was one of the great postwar novelists, converting the experience of Cold War espionage into brilliant works of literature. Yet he did so without really questioning the ruling doctrines ...
jacobin.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Thought-provoking and in depth Le Carré analysis by @tobylmanning.bsky.social @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/04/john...
jacobin.com/2025/04/john...
I wrote this: jacobin.com/2025/04/john...
John le Carré Made Great Art Out of Cold War Ideology
John le Carré was one of the great postwar novelists, converting the experience of Cold War espionage into brilliant works of literature. Yet he did so without really questioning the ruling doctrines ...
jacobin.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I wrote this: jacobin.com/2025/04/john...
I wrote this for The Quietus on my favourite topic, Krautrock. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
Reissue of the Week: Tangerine Dream's Phaedra | The Quietus
Toby Manning tracks the movement of Tangerine Dream during 1974, out of the rural and into the urban, out of space and down to earth
thequietus.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I wrote this for The Quietus on my favourite topic, Krautrock. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
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Excellent. My recent Serious Feather Arts interview with the journalist and author, @tobylmanning.bsky.social, about 50s/60s pop and rock has been published by the UK national newspaper, The Morning Star 😎 @repeaterbooks.bsky.social www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rock...
‘Rock and pop music were the unexpected consequences of the working-class entering history’
BRETT GREGORY speaks with TOBY MANNING, author of Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music
www.morningstaronline.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Excellent. My recent Serious Feather Arts interview with the journalist and author, @tobylmanning.bsky.social, about 50s/60s pop and rock has been published by the UK national newspaper, The Morning Star 😎 @repeaterbooks.bsky.social www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rock...
Come to this in Walthamstow on Weds.
March 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Come to this in Walthamstow on Weds.
Come for the music and the Marx, stay for the Molotov cocktails.
March 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Come for the music and the Marx, stay for the Molotov cocktails.
I'm doing this on Monday evening. Come along and blindside me with a question! kmflett.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/t...
Toby Manning: The Pop Chart as an Archive. Socialist History Seminar Mon 17th March 5.30pm
Socialist History Seminar, Monday 17th March 5.30pm, Room 301, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1 Free in person but please book Details The Pop Chart as an Archiv…
kmflett.wordpress.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I'm doing this on Monday evening. Come along and blindside me with a question! kmflett.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/t...
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This Thursday join @tobylmanning.bsky.social at the iconic Dublin Castle in Camden Town for a Rock 'N' Roll Book Club rendition of Toby's latest book "Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music" in conversation with Alison Beale!
Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/644394/
Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/644394/
January 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This Thursday join @tobylmanning.bsky.social at the iconic Dublin Castle in Camden Town for a Rock 'N' Roll Book Club rendition of Toby's latest book "Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music" in conversation with Alison Beale!
Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/644394/
Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/644394/
My first-ever BlueSky post is, inevitably, self-promotional.
January 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
My first-ever BlueSky post is, inevitably, self-promotional.