Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out
Gordon Thompson
Bok · Engelsk · 2008
| Utgitt | Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2008
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| Omfang | 340 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Har bibliografi, diskografi, innholdsfortegnelse, noter, register. - The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, and numerous other groups put Britain at the center of the modern musical map. Please Please Me offers an insider's view of the British pop-music recording industry during the seminal period of 1956 to 1968, based on personal recollections, contemporary accounts, and all relevant data that situate this scene in the economic, political, and social context of postwar Britain. Author Gordon Thompson weaves issues of class, age, professional status, gender, and ethnicity into his narrative, beginning with the rise of British beat groups and the emergence of teenagers as consumers in postwar Britain, and moving into the competition between performers and the recording industry for control over the music. He interviews musicians, songwriters, music directors, and producers and engineers who worked with the best-known performers of the era. Drawing his interpretation of the processes at work during this musical revolution into a wider context, Thompson unravels the musical change and innovation of the time with an eye on understanding what traces individuals leave in the musical and recording process. First ethnomusicological study of important milieu of western popular music First integrated overview of how the London music industry functioned in an era of rapid transformation Based on interviews with key players in Londons popular music infrastructure during the sixties, some of whom had never been interviewed before and others who long ago left the UK for America, South Africa, and Australia Contextualizes the Beatles in Britains popular-music industry, illustrating how in many ways they were typical of the era and, at the same time, unusual Provides cross-referenced confirmation that members of some the most successful British bands of the era, (e.g., the Dave Clark Five), did not play on many of some of their own recordings. - 270 kr
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| ISBN | 9780195333251 : 270 kr
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| Hylleplass | 781.64 THO
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