Publications
Publications by members of the MASS team
Katie Milestone and Susan O’Shea have been invited to co-edit a Special Issue for the Frontiers in Communication journal on Gender and Music-Making Towards the Mid-21st Century Frontiers | Gender and Music-Making towards the Mid-21st Century
This is an open access journal and the Special Issue will be available in spring 2026. Submissions invited with a deadline of January 2026. Email k.l.milestone [at] mmu.ac.uk for more details.
Publications by Susan O’Shea
O’Shea, S., and Surtees, A., (2024) ‘Re-membering Music Worlds: Exhibiting the Rebel Women of Manchester’s Suffragette City’, Popular Music and Society. URI.
O’Shea, S. (2023) ‘Take me to Church’: Developing Music Worlds Through the Creative Peripheral Placemaking and Programming of Other Voices, in Bennett, Cashman, Green and Lewandowski (eds) Popular Music Scenes: Regional and Rural Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 83-97. DOI.
More publications by Susan O’Shea
O’Shea, S. (2020) ‘Activate, collaborate, participate: The network revolutions of riot grrrl-affiliated music worlds’, Punk & Post Punk, 9(2), pp. 309–325. DOI.
O’Shea, S. (2014) ‘Embracing Difference in Feminist Music Worlds: A Ladyfest case study’ in: Crossley, McAndrew & Widdop, Ed(s). Social Networks and Music Worlds. London: Routledge; 2014, pp.122-144. Publisher site
Publications by Dr Katie Milestone
Milestone,K & Morrison, S.A (2025) Transatlantic Drift:The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music, Reaktion/Uni of Chicago Press
Scanlan, J. and Milestone, K (eds) (2025). Spirits of Place, In Certain Places/University of Lancashire, ISBN 978-1-3999-9976-2 Spirits of Place – In Certain Places
More publications by Dr Katie Milestone
Milestone,K. (2025) The Elixir of Youth Culture. Chapter in Spirits of Place, In Certain Places/University of Lancashire, ISBN 978-1-3999-9976-2
Milestone, K. & Ormrod,J. (2023) Editors, of Special Issue Fashioning Girlhood across the Media in the Mid-Twentieth Century for the Journal of Film, Fashion and Consumption, Vol 12 (1), Intellect.Fashioning Girlhood across the Media in the Mid–Twentieth Century | Intellect (intellectdiscover.com)https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ffc_00049_2
Milestone, K. & Meyer,A. (2020) Gender and Popular Culture, (2nd Edition), Polity Press. Gender and Popular Culture, 2nd Edition
Milestone, K (2019) ‘Soul Boy, Soul Girl ?’ in The Northern Soul Scene (Raine,S,. Smith,N and Wall,T (eds). Equinox. Wall, Raine & Smith/The Northern Soul Scene, 11. Soul Boy, Soul Girl: Reflections on Gender and Northern Soul | Music Hub | Equinox Publishing
Milestone, K (2019) ‘The Passenger?’ In Duffett and Peter (eds) Popular Music and Automobiles, Bloomsbury. Popular Music and Automobiles: : Mark Duffett: Bloomsbury Academic – Bloomsbury
Milestone, K (2018) ‘Swinging regions: Young women and club culture in 1960s Manchester’ in Journal of Film, Fashion and Consumption, Vol 7:2.Intellect Books | Film, Fashion & Consumption
Milestone, K & Ormrod, J. (2018) Editorial. ‘Representing Style and Female Agency in 1960s pop culture’, Journal of Film Fashion and Consumption, Vol 7:2. Intellect Books | Film, Fashion & Consumption
Milestone, K (2018) ‘Madchester’ in Sounds of the City: Volume 2, Lashua, B., Wagg, S., Spracklen, K., Yavuz, M.S. (Eds.) Palgrave Macmillan.Madchester | SpringerLink
Milestone, K (2016) ‘‘Northernness’, gender and Manchester’s creative industries’. Single authored journal, Journal of Cultural Research. Volume 20, 2016 – Issue 1: Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives. Single authored journal article.
Milestone, K & Richards,N. (2000) ‘What Difference Does it Make?: Women’s Pop Cultural Production and Consumption in Manchester’ (with Richards) Sociological Research On Line, Vol 2:4. ‘What Difference does it Make? Women’s Pop Cultural Production and Consumption in Manchester’ – Nicola Richards, Katie Milestone, 2000
Milestone, K (1999) ‘Geographies of Noise in Manchester’s Northern Quarter’ in The North West Geographer, 2,2. North West Geographer – Manchester Geographical Society
Milestone, K (1999) Youth Culture in the Twentieth Century, The Guardian Newspaper.http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/dec/18/weekend7.weekend5
Milestone, K & Hollows,J (1998) ‘Welcome to Dreamsville:A History and Geography of Northern Soul’ (with Joanne Hollows) in The Place of Music edited by Leyshon,A, Matless,D and Revill,G, Guilford Press. The Place of Music – 1st Edition – Andrew Leyshon – David Matless – Ge
Milestone, K (1997) ‘Love Factory:The Sites, Practices and Media Relationships of Northern Soul’ in The Club Cultures Reader edited by Redhead,S, O’Connor,J and Wynne,D, Blackwell. The Clubcultures Reader : Steve Redhead, : 9780631212164 : Blackwell’s
Milestone, K (1996) ‘Northerness and New Urban Economies of Hedonism’ in From the Margins to the Centre edited by O’Connor,J and Wynne,D, Ashgate. From the Margins to the Centre | Cultural Production and Consumption i