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Fierce Dancing
Adventures in the Underground
ISBN: 9781917674089
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
A vividly personal journey tracing the legacy of 1960s counterculture into the free parties, road protests, and traveler movements of 1990s Britain.
Sex Is No Emergency
Adventures in a Post Punk Wonderland
ISBN: 9781913689810
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: May 20, 2025
Further adventures in psychedelic rock, ball room dancing, performance art, and parenting in 1980s Britain.
Two-Headed Doctor
Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John’s Gris-Gris
ISBN: 9781913689605
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 26, 2024
A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris.
The Shrine Thief
ISBN: 9781949597295
Publisher: Terra Nova Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2024
A renowned musician in his 85th year explores the nature of wisdom, how we learn to recognize it, and how we pass it forward.
69 Exhibition Road
Twelve True-Life Tales from the Fag End of Punk, Porn & Performance
ISBN: 9781913689636
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: February 14, 2023
A vibrant, wry, and engaging account of life as an adventurous, queer young person in late 1970s London discovering themselves as an artist, and an individual.
Harry Smith, revised and expanded edition
Harry Smith
American Magus
ISBN: 9781635901641
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: November 29, 2022
A privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith.
Foreground Music
A Life in Fifteen Gigs
ISBN: 9781907222825
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: December 31, 2019
A chronicle of a lifetime's passion for gig-going, by one of British television's most respected writers.
To Be Nothing
Conversations with Knut Hamre, Hardanger Fiddle Master
ISBN: 9781949597059
Publisher: Terra Nova Press
Pub Date: October 8, 2019
Dialogues between student and master about music, learning, teaching, the healing power of art, and the art of life itself.
IrRational Music
ISBN: 9781949597004
Publisher: Terra Nova Press
Pub Date: February 12, 2019
A memoir and manifesto by a pivotal figure at the junction of rock, the avant-garde, and an ever-widening spiral of art, theater, film, and dance.

Fierce Dancing
Adventures in the Underground
ISBN: 9781917674089
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
A vividly personal journey tracing the legacy of 1960s counterculture into the free parties, road protests, and traveler movements of 1990s Britain.
Sex Is No Emergency
Adventures in a Post Punk Wonderland
ISBN: 9781913689810
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: May 20, 2025
Further adventures in psychedelic rock, ball room dancing, performance art, and parenting in 1980s Britain.
Two-Headed Doctor
Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John’s Gris-Gris
ISBN: 9781913689605
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 26, 2024
A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris.
The Shrine Thief
ISBN: 9781949597295
Publisher: Terra Nova Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2024
A renowned musician in his 85th year explores the nature of wisdom, how we learn to recognize it, and how we pass it forward.
69 Exhibition Road
Twelve True-Life Tales from the Fag End of Punk, Porn & Performance
ISBN: 9781913689636
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: February 14, 2023
A vibrant, wry, and engaging account of life as an adventurous, queer young person in late 1970s London discovering themselves as an artist, and an individual.
Harry Smith, revised and expanded edition
Harry Smith
American Magus
ISBN: 9781635901641
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: November 29, 2022
A privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith.
Foreground Music
A Life in Fifteen Gigs
ISBN: 9781907222825
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: December 31, 2019
A chronicle of a lifetime's passion for gig-going, by one of British television's most respected writers.
To Be Nothing
Conversations with Knut Hamre, Hardanger Fiddle Master
ISBN: 9781949597059
Publisher: Terra Nova Press
Pub Date: October 8, 2019
Dialogues between student and master about music, learning, teaching, the healing power of art, and the art of life itself.
IrRational Music
ISBN: 9781949597004
Publisher: Terra Nova Press
Pub Date: February 12, 2019
A memoir and manifesto by a pivotal figure at the junction of rock, the avant-garde, and an ever-widening spiral of art, theater, film, and dance.