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Images of England Through Popular Music: Class, Youth and Rock ´n´ Roll, 1955-1976
Keith Gildart
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Description for Images of England Through Popular Music: Class, Youth and Rock ´n´ Roll, 1955-1976
Paperback. Drawing on archival sources and oral testimony, Keith Gildart examines the ways in which popular music played an important role in reflecting and shaping social identities and working-class cultures and - through a focus on rock 'n' roll, rhythm & blues, punk, mod subculture, and glam rock - created a sense of crisis in English society. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 389.
Drawing on archival sources and oral testimony, Keith Gildart examines the ways in which popular music played an important role in reflecting and shaping social identities and working-class cultures and - through a focus on rock 'n' roll, rhythm & blues, punk, mod subculture, and glam rock - created a sense of crisis in English society.
Drawing on archival sources and oral testimony, Keith Gildart examines the ways in which popular music played an important role in reflecting and shaping social identities and working-class cultures and - through a focus on rock 'n' roll, rhythm & blues, punk, mod subculture, and glam rock - created a sense of crisis in English society.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349285822
SKU
V9781349285822
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Keith Gildart
Keith Gildart is Reader in Labour and Social History at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has published widely in the field of labour and working-class history. He is the author of North Wales Miners: A Fragile Unity, 1945-1996 (2001) and an editor of the Dictionary of Labour Biography.
Reviews for Images of England Through Popular Music: Class, Youth and Rock ´n´ Roll, 1955-1976
The book's nuanced treatment of the relationship between currents of race, sexuality, gender and class identity in popular music, and the combination of a reading of the music/ians of the period and music as lived experience make this book an important piece of cultural history. ... this book is recommended reading for those working on contemporary class and youth cultures ... Read more