The Canterbury Sound in Popular Music

Trying to Remember the Good Stuff: An extended Foreword; Asya Draganova with Robert Wyatt Introduction and leitmotifs; Asya Draganova, Shane Blackman and Andy Bennett

PART I. EMERGENCE, SOUND AND SCENE
Chapter 1. The Canterbury Sound as a Local, Translocal and Virtual Scene; Andy Bennett
Chapter 2. The Canterbury Sound - From the beginning; Brian Hopper

Chapter 3. The Canterbury Scenius; Murray Smith
PART II. JOURNEYS AND RETURNS
Chapter 4. From Canterbury to Kamijima: a musical journey; Dave Sinclair
Chapter 5. Unicorns, uniforms and the Canterbury Sound; Jack Hues
Chapter 6. Canterbury paths through the States; Rick Chafen
Chapter 7. From a fan's point of view; Richard Dove
PART 3. PEOPLE
Chapter 8. Locating Robert Wyatt: Canterbury Sound and quintessential Englishness; Marcus O'Dair
Chapter 9. A view from across the desk - An engineer's personal perspective of the Canterbury Scene; David Woolgar
Chapter 10. The Sinclair Spectrum and Pathways of Artistic Influence; Billie Bottle
Chapter 11. "Songs from the bottom of a well" or Morpheus in the underworld: some thoughts on the music and lyrics of Kevin Ayers; Neil Saunders
Chapter 12. Biographical Interviews and Reflections: ethnographic conversations from within the Canterbury Sound; Curated by Asya Draganova and Shane Blackman; Interviews with Geoffrey Richardson, Pye Hastings, Neil Sullivan and Maria Sullivan
PART IV. DOCUMENTING MUSIC PRACTICES
Chapter 13. Researching and documenting the scene - online and offline; Aymeric Leroy
Chapter 14. The story of Facelift - a fanzine exploring the Canterbury scene and beyond in the pre-internet age - and its role in knitting together an international community of fans; Phil Howitt
Chapter 15. 'Canterbury music' and music in Canterbury; Alan Payne
PART V. MYTHS AND REALITIES: MUSIC IN CONTEMPORARY CANTERBURY
Chapter 16. Contemporary pocket music scene in Canterbury: an ethnographic study on D.I.Y. student bands; Mengyao Jiang
Chapter 17. Free Range: a Canterbury Scene; Sam Bailey
Chapter 18. Blue Gems and Colliding Moons: furthering the Canterbury Underground; Adam Brodigan
Chapter 19. Humour and gender of the 'mischievous imaginary' within the Canterbury Sound of Soft Machine, Gong and Caravan; Shane Blackman and Asya Draganova

Afterword: Three personal reflections on the muse of the Canterbury Sound; Asya Draganova, Shane Blackman and Andy Bennett