1st Edition
British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 The Story of Music Hall in Rock
By Barry J. Faulk
Copyright 2010
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. Faulk focuses on the mid to late 1960s, when... Read more
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;
Biography
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).
