Images of England Through Popular Music: Class, Youth and Rock 'n' Roll, 1955-1976

by Gildart and Keith Gildart

Book Overview

What was the relationship between working-class youths and popular music between the years 1955-1976? 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 and blues, punk, the mod subculture, and the many worlds of glam rock - created a sense of crisis in English...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230019692
• ISBN13: 9780230019690
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"