Dr Peter Webb is a writer, lecturer and musician who specialises in research into popular and contemporary music, subcultures, globalisation, new media, politics and social theory. He is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Sociology at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He has previously worked at Cambridge University, Goldsmiths College the University of Birmingham and was an RA on an ESRC project on E-commerce and the music, fashion and financial services industries in the department of geographic sciences at the University of Bristol. His PhD was on the Sociology of networks of musicians and their negotiations with the music industry. He has published a book on these networks and on social and cultural theories of music scenes entitled; `Exploring the Networked worlds of Popular Music: Milieu Cultures’ (Routledge, 2010). Webb has also worked within an independent record label from 1996 – 2002 as an artist and tour manager and is a published musician with three albums, various singles and remixes under the names of Statik and Statik Sound System. As a musician he has worked with the physical theatre companies Blast Theory and Intimate Strangers and the film company Parallax Pictures. He has recently set up the publishing company PC-Press whose first publication is a book on Test Dept. called `Total State Machine’ (2015).
