Rock Culture in Liverpool

Popular Music in the Making

Sara Cohen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1991
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-816178-3 (ISBN)

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A study which examines the Rock culture of the city of Liverpool. The author was helped in her research by members of the bands "The Jactars" and "Crikey it's the Cromptons!". The book looks at collective creativity, the music scene in Liverpool, management of bands and record deals.

Rock bands have been an important part of Liverpool's culture and identity since the 1950s, and there are over 1,000 bands in the city. This book delineates and discusses rock culture in Liverpool as a way or style of life, highlighting its associated conventions, rituals, norms, and beliefs within the city's own unique social, economic, cultural, and political environment. It deals with the hitherto little explored music-making by `local', `amateur' rock bands, that are precariously poised between success and failure, caught between the urge of original creativity and the pressures of the record industry. Their struggle is discussed in detail within the context of their social and cultural lifestyle and the commercial environment within which they operate. Broad artistic and social issues are examined in great detail, through the biographies of a few specific bands, notably The Jactars and Crikey it's the Cromptons!

Introduction; Scene and personae; Collective creativity; Organization and management of bands; The gig; The deal; Music in the making; Style and meaning in the music; The threat of women; Conclusion; Postscript; Appendix; Discography: some of the recorded material referred to in the text; Bibliography; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.3.1991
Zusatzinfo	1 figure
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 241 mm
Gewicht	548 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	0-19-816178-6 / 0198161786
ISBN-13	978-0-19-816178-3 / 9780198161783
Zustand	Neuware