Rock culture in Liverpool : popular music in the making / Sara Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Sara, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock music--England--Liverpool--1981-1990--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Liverpool (England)--Popular culture.

Liverpool (England).

England--Liverpool.

Physical Description:

vii, 246 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Summary:

Rock bands have been an important part of Liverpool's culture and identity since the 1950s, and a 1980 survey discovered the existence of 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 at a particular point in time, 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 for 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!

Contents:

1. Scene and Personae 9

2. Collective Creativity 21

3. Organization and Management of Bands 47

4. The Gig 75

5. The Deal 103

6. Music in the Making 135

7. Style and Meaning in the Music 172

8. The Threat of Women 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

22119075