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Dave Harker

Areas of interest include: Popular Music and Culture, Folksong and Working Class History. Robert Noonan and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Theodor Adorno

Dave Harker, One for the money: politics and popular song, (London: Hutchinson, 1980).

Dave Harker, et al, ed., The big red song book,(London: Pluto Press, First edition 1975, Second edition 1981).

Dave Harker, Ed', Songs from the manuscript collection of John Bell, (Durham: The Surtees Society, 1985).

Dave Harker, Fakesong: the manufacture of British 'folksong', 1700 to the present day, (Milton Keynes: Open U.P., 1985).

Dave Harker, ed., Songs and verse of the North East pitmen, c.1780-1844, (Durham: The Surtees Society, 1999).

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Dave Harker,Song and history: a bibliography of 'folksong' and related material (Goteborg: IASPM, 1983).

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Dave Harker, 'Francis James Child and the "Ballad Consensus"', Folk Music Journal, (London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1981), 4/2, 146-164.

Dave Harker, 'The making of the Tyneside concert hall', Popular Music, (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1981),1, 27- 56.

Dave Harker, 'May Cecil Sharp be praised?', History Workshop Journal, (Oxford: History Workshop Journal, 1981), 14, 44-62.

Dave Harker, 'Fakesong', in Horn, Green and Tag g, Ed’s, Popular Music Perspectives 2, (Goteborg: IASPM, 1985), 346-359.

Dave Harker, 'Joe Wilson: "comic dialectical singer" or class traitor?', in J.S.Bratton, ed., Music Hall: Performance and Style, (Milton Keynes: Open U.P., 1986), 111-130.

Dave Harker, 'Song and history', in I. Russell, ed., Singer, Song and Scholar, (Sheffield: Sheffield U.P., 1986), 117-124.

Dave Harker, 'The price you pay: an introduction to the life and songs of Laurence Price',in A. L.White, ed., Lost in Music, (London: Routledge, 1988), 107-163.

Dave Harker, 'Still crazy after all these years: what was popular music in the 1960s?', in B. Moore-Gilbert and J. Seed, Ed’s, Cultural Revolution?, (London: Routledge, 1992), 236-254.

Dave Harker, 'A Warning', Folk Music Journal, (London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1992), 6/3, 299-338.

Dave Harker, 'A Warning', Folk Music Journal, (London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1992), 6/3, 299-338.

Dave Harker, 'Blood on the tracks: popular music in the 1970s', in B. Moore-Gilbert, ed.,The Arts in the 1970s. Cultural Closure?, (London: Routledge, 1994), 240-258.

Dave Harker, 'Bringing it all back home: Marxism, Stalinism and the "cultural imperialism thesis", in A. Opekar, ed., Central European Popular Music, (Prague: IASPM , 1994), 12-16.

Dave Harker, 'Caz: muzige rengini veren nedir’, in Charlie Hore, ed., Caz: Dun, Bugun, Yarin, (Istanbul: Turke Baski icin, Civiyazlan, 1995), 79-92.

Dave Harker, 'Popular music doesn't matter', in P. Wicke, ed., Popular Music Perspectives 3, (Berlin: IASPM, 1995), 451-66.

Dave Harker, 'Taking fun seriously', Popular Music,(Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.), 15/1, February 1996, 108-21.

Dave Harker, 'The wonderful world of IFPI: music industry rhetoric, the critics and the classical Marxist critique', Popular Music, (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.), 16/1, January 1997, 45-79

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Work in progress, 2001/2

Dave Harker, ‘Adorno, sameness and the stalinoids’, in Professor Mario Vieira de Carvalho, ed., Music and Lifeworld, (Lisbon: Fundacio D. Luis 1).

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Dave Harker, Tressell: A history of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Dave Harker, Benjamin, Adorno and beyond

Dave Harker, On song: history, theory and criticism.

Dave Harker, Working-class writing.

Dave Harker, A worker’s history of Scarborough, 1660-1835.

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Dave Harker, ‘Popular music: a chronology’.

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Dave Harker, ‘It's a jungle sometimes: the music industry, the crisis and the state’ [See http://www2.hu-berlin.de/fpm/texte/harker1.htm]

Dave Harker, ‘Gotta serve somebody: Theodor Adorno, popular music studies and commitment’ [See http://www2.hu-berlin.de/fpm/texte/harker3.htm]

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