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  • Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys

    Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool

    by Laura Hamer, Michael Brocken ...
    Series series Elements in Women in Music
    The city of Liverpool is renowned for its popular music, although the formidable hagiography which has developed around the Beatles tends to dominate historical considerations to the virtual exclusion of the many other varied genres which have flourished in the city before, during, and after them. Within Liverpool's popular-music past is a partially hidden history of women's musical leadership. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The British Folk Revival

    by Michael Brocken ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    Almost 20 years ago Michael Brocken created from his doctoral research, what became both a seminal and contested volume concerning the social mores surrounding the British Folk Revival up to that point in time: The British Folk Revival 1944–2002. In this long-overdue second edition he revisits not only his own research, but also that of others from the 1990s and early 21st century. He then ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz Pioneer

    A New Jazz Chronicle

    by Michael Brocken, Jeff Daniels ...
    This extensively researched text concerning the life and career of Liverpool-born Black jazz musician Gordon Stretton not only contributes to the important debate concerning the transoceanic pathways of jazz during the 20th century, but also suggests to the jazz fan and scholar alike that such pathways, reaching as they also did across the Atlantic from Europe, are actually part of a largely ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Twenty-First-Century Legacy of the Beatles

    Liverpool and Popular Music Heritage Tourism

    by Michael Brocken ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    It has taken Liverpool almost half a century to come to terms with the musical, cultural and now economic legacy of the Beatles and popular music. At times the group was negatively associated with sex and drugs images surrounding rock music: deemed unacceptable by the city fathers, and unworthy of their support. Liverpudlian musicians believe that the musical legacy of the Beatles can be a burden, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The British Folk Revival 1944-2002

    by Michael Brocken ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. This work considers the post-war folk revival in Britain from a popular music studies perspective. Michael Brocken provides a historical narrative of the folk revival from the 1940s up until the 1990s, beginning with the emergence of the revival from within and around the left-wing movements of the 1940s and 1950s. Key figures and organizations such as the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Other Voices: Hidden Histories of Liverpool's Popular Music Scenes, 1930s-1970s

    by Michael Brocken ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    At times it appears that a whole industry exists to perpetuate the myth of origin of the Beatles. There certainly exists a popular music (or perhaps 'rock') origin myth concerning this group and the city of Liverpool and this draws in devotees, as if on a pilgrimage, to Liverpool itself. Once 'within' the city, local businesses exist primarily to escort these pilgrims around several almost iconic ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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    Edited by Fintan Vallely ...
    The Companion to Irish Traditional Music is a landmark, easy to use A-Z format for studying, exploring and researching one of Ireland’s most universally recognisable cultural expressions.Among the existing publications on Irish traditional music there are works of monumental initiative and deservedly enduring status. But the radical development in this music scene since the 1960s mark it now as an ... Read more

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  • Art Into Pop

    by Simon Frith, Howard Horne ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music
    This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio, it focuses on two key moments – the early 1960s, when art students like John Lennon and Eric Clapton begin to play their own versions of American rock and blues and inflected youth music ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • J.B. Priestley

    by Maggie B. Gale ...
    Series series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
    J. B. Priestley is the first book to provide a detailed and up to date analysis of the enormous contribution made by this playwright, novelist, journalist and critic to twentieth century British theatre.Priestley was often criticised for being either too populist or too experimental and this study unpicks the contradictions of a playwright and theatre theorist popular with audiences but too often ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967

    From Dance Hall to the 100 Club

    by Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Emma Webster, Martin Cloonan ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    The social history of music in Britain since 1950 has long been the subject of nostalgic articles in newspapers and magazines, nostalgic programmes on radio and television and collective memories on music websites, but to date there has been no proper scholarly study. The three volumes of The History of Live Music in Britain address this gap, and do so from the unique perspective of the music ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • White Heat

    A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties

    by Dominic Sandbrook ...
    'An active pleasure to read' Mail on SundayHarold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum.The memories ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Tourist Gaze 3.0

    by John Urry, Jonas Larsen ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!"- Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick UniversityThis new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this book even more ... Read more

    $98.99 USD