George McKay is a writer on alternative cultures, popular music/media and cultural politics. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1960 though mostly raised in Norfolk, England. He is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Salford, UK, where he is Director of the Communication, Cultural & Media Studies Research Centre (www.ccm.salford.ac.uk).George's website is at http://georgemckay.org Forthcoming books:Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism & Rebellion in the Garden (2011)Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability (2012).He has recently completed a book for the general reader about polemic landscapes--from peace gardens to community gardens, public parks as spaces of political protest to allotments--called Radical Gardening, which is published by Frances Lincoln in May 2011. This is supported by a grant from the Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust. He is currently on an Arts and Humanities Research Council-supported sabbatical writing an academic monograph to be called probably either Spasticus: Popular Music and Disability, or Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability (contracted with University of Michigan Press).Or contact him at: g.a.mckay@salford.ac.uk