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Let's spend the night together : sex, pop music and British youth culture, 1950s-80s / the Subcultures Network.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Subcultures Network, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Subculture--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Subculture.
- Sex--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Sex.
- Youth--Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Youth.
- Sex and popular music--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Sex and popular music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- It is often unmentioned and sometimes only implied, but sex provided much of the charge that infused post-war youth culture. This collection seeks to locate the sex in the well-known trilogy of 'sex & drugs & rock 'n' roll'. From the masculine swagger of the Teds to the sensual fetishization of all things Goth, the essays here locate the sexual performance and implications of British youth culture in the context of post-war history. By looking at how sex and sexuality were expressed, presented and received, the collection shows youth culture to be crucial to the changes and challenges that informed British society into the late twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction – Let’s spend the night together
- 1 Where were you? UK chart pop and the commodification of the teenage libido, 1952–63
- 2 The Jerry Lee Lewis scandal, the popular press and the moral standing of rock ’n’ roll in late 1950s Britain
- 3 ‘I’m different; I’m tough; I fuck’
- 4 ‘We are no longer certain, any of us, what is “right” and what is “wrong”’
- 5 Lovers’ lanes and Haystacks
- 6 Queering modernism
- 7 ‘You just let your hair down’
- 8 Singing Elton’s song
- 9 ‘Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out’
- 10 ‘Everything gets boring after a time’
- 11 Run the track, but no bother chat slack
- 12 ‘This could be a night to remember’
- 13 ‘Mummy … what is a Sex Pistol?’
- 14 The ‘style terrorism’ of Siouxsie Sioux
- 15 Coming of age Asian and Muslim in post-punk West Yorkshire
- 16 ‘I’m your man’
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781526159977
- 152615997X
- 9781526159991
- 1526159996
- OCLC:
- 1409030858
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