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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Your Right To Protest by Christian Weaver
DESCRIPTION:Housmans are very excited to be welcoming Christian Weaver to shop to celebrate the official launch of his vital new book Your Right To Protest. Christian is a human rights barrister\, social justice campaigner. His first book The Law In 60 Seconds: A Pocket Guide To Your Rights\, has been a long time staple of the Housmans catalogue and one of our bestselling titles\, it is an essential and accessible guide for those interested in activism and direct action. In Your Right To Protest he expands on many of the themes explored in the first book and brings together everything you need to know when taking a stand. Whether you are marching on the streets or making your voice heard from your own front room\, organising in your workplace or writing a letter to your MP\, this essential guide equips you with your fundamental rights and the laws that protect you – as well as the ones you might inadvertently break. \n\n\n\nFrom attending a demonstration to when the police can – and can’t – stop you\, this book has your back. In it\, you’ll find up-to-date information on a whole range of topics\, including: \n\n\n\n– Public assembly and who to notify when you’re on the move \n\n\n\n– Striking in the workplace and action your employer can take against you \n\n\n\n– Direct action and when it crosses over into trespass \n\n\n\n– Stop and search and how to access help if you are arrested \n\n\n\n– Online activism and what to do if you accidentally libel someone \n\n\n\nFor activists new and old alike\, Your Right to Protest is the indispensable guide to using your voice for what you believe in. \n\n\n\nThis is likely to be a very popular event and advance booking is strongly recommended.  \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY by Benjamin Barson
DESCRIPTION:This is gonna be a good one…Jazz! Theory! LIVE MUSIC!!  \n\n\n\nHousmans will be hosting the wonderful scholar and musician Benjamin Barson for the official UK launch of his seminal new book\, Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons.  \n\n\n\nA new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musicians. Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz\, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below\,” following the musicians as they built communes\, performed at Civil Rights rallies\, and participated in general strikes. Perhaps most importantly\, Barson locates the first emancipatory revolution in the Americas—Haiti—as a nexus for cultural and political change in nineteenth-century Louisiana. In dialogue with the work of recent historians who have inverted traditional histories of Latin American and Caribbean independence by centering the influence of Haitian activists abroad\, this work traces the impact of Haitian culture in New Orleans and its legacy in movements for liberation. \n\n\n\nBrassroots Democracy demonstrates how Black musicians infused participatory music practice with innovative forms of grassroots democracy. Late nineteenth-century Black brass bands and activists rehearsed these participatory models through collective performance that embodied the democratic ethos of Black Reconstruction. Termed “Brassroots Democracy\,” this fusion of political and musical spheres revolutionized both. Brassroots Democracy illuminates the Black Atlantic struggles that informed music-as-world-making from the Haitian Revolution through Reconstruction to the jazz revolution. The work theorizes the roots of the New Orleans brass band tradition in the social relations grown in maroon ecologies across the Americas. Their fruits contributed to the socio-sonic commons of the music we call jazz today. \n\n\n\nBenjamin will be in conversation with seasoned music broadcaster and writer John Stevenson and WILL ALSO be putting his theories into practice  and performing live music for us. Advanced booking strongly recommended. This is going to be part book talk part concert\, as always\, please feel free to BYOB.    \n\n\n\n“Musician\, composer\, scholar Benjamin Barson places the origins of the music dubbed ‘jazz’ in its rightful place: the Black Radical Tradition. Deftly braiding the political and cultural histories of revolutionary Haiti\, Black Reconstruction\, the laboring and creative lives of workers and peasants of the Black Atlantic\, African and Indigenous memory in song\, story\, and dance\, Black feminist blues\, and resistance to racial capitalism\, he weaves a powerful story of how Black revolt and brass bands transformed the port city of New Orleans into a portal to musical revolution. From now on\, Brassroots Democracy should be our starting point—both for understanding the past and imagining an emancipatory future.” – Robin D.G. Kelley \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS \n\n\n\nBenjamin Barson is a historian\, baritone saxophonist\, and political activist. He is an assistant professor of music at Bucknell University. His work has been published in Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party (2020)\, Routledge Handbook on Jazz and Gender (2021) and Routledge Guide to Ecosocialism (2021). \n\n\n\nJohn Stevenson is a seasoned communications professional\, encompassing freelance broadcasting and writing for diverse publications including The Guardian\, The Independent\, The Times\, Caribbean Beat and UK Jazz News. An alumnus of the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill) and King’s College London\, John has an abiding interest in arts and culture from around the world\, especially the music of Africa and the African diaspora. He currently co-produces and co-hosts the monthly music radio programme\, Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner\, on www.thethursdaynightshow.com \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: 'The Picture of Contented New Wealth' - Tariq Godard in conversation with Alex Niven
DESCRIPTION:It’s spooky season! Help us celebrate All Hallows Eve by welcoming Tariq Godard to the shop for the (re)launch of his acclaimed work of political horror: The Picture of Contented New Wealth. One of the most important and era defining satires on Neoliberal Britain written during the dying days of New Labour\, and anticipating\, in it’s send-up of Thatcher’s premier\, the cultural brutality of the Austerity years\, The Picture of Contented New Wealth is as a vital and haunting now as it’s ever been.  \n\n\n\nIn the brilliant red doom of a Hampshire sunset\, Brigit Conti can hear a voice behind her ears that is not her own. Bed-bound and complaining of a rare bone disease that no doctor can diagnose\, her husband fears that the house they have purchased is a portal through which an older\, more malign energy has passed\, possessing his wife and son. Through their successive deterioration\, his secular and agnostic world-view undergoes a metamorphosis\, drawing him to a strange man from the hills: the Rector\, their unlikely saviour. \n\n\n\nOr are he and his family merely victims of their own self-serving yuppie way of life? \n\n\n\nThe Picture of Contented New Wealth is a gothic tragedy set in the 1980s\, bringing proper characterization and a literary sensibility to the traditional horror story. Its mix of generic elements and mystical realism deal with the irreducibility of evil and its successful normalization in to our daily and dominant reality. \n\n\n\nTARIQ GODDARD is the author of seven novels including his 2002 debut\, the Whitbread (latterly Costa) Prize shortlisted ‘Homage to a Firing Squad’ & 2017’s ‘Nature and Necessity’. He has been nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize\, & the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize & has co-edited two collections of essays\, ‘The Repeater Book of the Occult’ & ‘The Repeater Book of Heroism’. His last book ‘High John the Conqueror’ was published by Repeater Books in 2022. \n\n\n\nTariq will be joined in conversation with ALEX NIVEN. Alex Niven comes from the north-east of England. He writes regularly for the Guardian\, Tribune and New Statesman\, and has also contributed to publications including the New York Times\, the Independent\, Pitchfork\, The Face and VICE. He is the author of New Model Island (Repeater\, 2019)\, and The North Will Rise Again (Bloomsbury). He is currently Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University\, he helped to start the radical publisher Repeater Books in 2014. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’  your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30. \n\n\n\nPLEASE FEEL FREE TO BYOB \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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SUMMARY:An evening with Richard Seymour
DESCRIPTION:Housmans are thrilled to be welcoming Richard Seymour to the shop for a double book launch! Richard is one of the country’s pre-eminent leftist thinkers and writers and we are extremely lucky to help celebrate his latest polemic\, from Verso\, Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization as well as the new paperback re-issue of The Twittering Machine: How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life\, from Indigo Press. \n\n\n\nIn Disaster Nationalism\, Seymour argues that the rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro\, the true peril lies elsewhere. Defeating these people will not stem the tide driving them forward. They are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood. Propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers\, enthralled by images of disaster and fantasies of doom\, they have emerged from a reservoir of societal despair\, fear\, and isolation. Within this seething cauldron\, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies\, from ‘lone wolf’ killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge\, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism. Seymour delves deep into this alarming development in world politics\, dissecting its roots\, its influencers\, and the threats it poses. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling\, Seymour offers a stark warning. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization itself. Unless we understand the deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence\, we have little chance of stopping it. \n\n\n\nIn surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine\, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media. Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users\, waiting for our next hit as we like\, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals\, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies\, desires and frailties into data\, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. \n\n\n\nThrough journalism\, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users\, developers\, security experts and others\, Seymour probes the human side of the machine\, asking what we’re getting out of it\, and what we’re getting into. \n\n\n\nFor the first half of the event Richard will be in conversation and discuss the themes and arguments of both books\, before this broadens out into an audience Q&A. After this we encourage milling about and then usually head to the pub.  \n\n\n\nFeel free to BYOB.  \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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