Barry J. Faulk

British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 (eBook, PDF)

The Story of Music Hall in Rock

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so by ironically appropriating the traditional forms of Victorian music hall and the result was a symbolically charged form whose main purpose was to unsettle the hierarchy that set traditional popular culture above the new medium.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317171522
• Artikelnr.: 45099435

Autorenporträt

Barry J. Faulk is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Florida State University and author of Music Hall and Modernity: the Late Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 British Pop Women Singers of the 1960s and the Struggle for Modern Identity
Chapter 2 Modernist Rock Constructs the Folk: The Beatles'
Magical Mystery Tour
Chapter 3 New Left in Victorian Drag:
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Chapter 4
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
and the Making of the Rock Auteur
Chapter 5 Modernist Nostalgia: The Sex Pistols' Music-Hall Revival
Conclusion