Sixties British pop, outside in / Gordon Ross Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Gordon, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Great Britain--1961-1970--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

monochrome

illustration

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Downtown, 1956-1965 -- the first volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In -- describes the rise of London's music and recording industries through the stories of those who gave Britain a significant voice in transatlantic pop culture. After the national success of artists such as Lonnie Donegan, Cliff Richard, and Helen Shapiro, the Beatles led an international wave that included groups such as the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and the Animals and singers such as Petula Clark, Tom Jones, and Cilla Black. Supporting them, a community of musicians, producers, music directors, engineers, songwriters, publishers, promoters, and journalists created songs and recordings, organized concerts, and wrote about music that reflected the optimism of an audience eager for new material. Based on extensive research and drawing on vintage and original interviews, Sixties British Pop, Outside In relates this world to the Bulge Generation in the UK (and Baby Boomers in America) and to the technologies and English behaviors that shaped this music culture."-- Provided by publisher.

"Itchycoo Park, 1964-1970 -- the second volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In -- explores how London songwriters, musicians, and production crews navigated the era's cultural upheavals by reimagining the pop-music envelope. British songwriters, musicians, and production crews explored form, sound, and subject matter as western society grappled with racism, sexism, war, revolution, and migration in a postcolonial world. As these creators and curators of popular culture combined interests in jazz, folk, blues, Indian ragas, and western classical music, they created sophisticated hybrid forms that redefined pop music. Based on extensive research and drawing on vintage and original interviews, Sixties British Pop, Outside In contextualizes the world of the Beatles through King Crimson in the frameworks of the postwar surge in births that created the Bulge Generation in the UK (and Baby Boomers in America), emergent technologies, English behavior, and the places and spaces in which people created and consumed pop music"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Volume 1. Downtown, 1956-1965

Volume 2. Itchycoo Park, 1964-1970.

Part One. Before the Flood, 1950-1962. Common Roots ; First Responders ; Channeling English Pop ; Behind the Stars ; Beatle Beginnings

Part Two. A Door Opens, 1963. The Beatles: Outside In ; Northwest Passage ; Capital Connections ; Where Stones Roll

Part Three. Frontiers, 1964. Consuming the Beatles ; Northern Waves ; Middle English ; Independents Movement

Part Four. The Feminine Musique. The Problem That Has No Name ; Women : The Next Wave

Part Five. Transitions, 1964-1965. Scenes ; Down the Road a Piece ; Meet the Rolling Stones ; Modifications ; Uncommon Folks

Volume 2. Itchycoo Park, 1964-1970

Part One. Swinging London, 1964-1967. The Art of Pop ; Finding England ; Home Court Advantages ; Beatles '67 ; The Establishment Strikes Back ; Classic Progressives

Part Two. Gardens of Earthly Delights, 1965-1969. British Proto Punk ; Transatlantic Transformers ; Old Bottles, New Wine

Part Three. Pop Roles. Male Delivery ; Televising the Feminine ; Second Wave Pocket

Part Four. Decade Ends, 1967-1970. Worlds Apart ; England Calling ; Electric Faeries ; Folk Pop ; Transatlantic Routes

Part Five. Something Old, Something New. New Territory ; English Tales ; Something Old, Something New.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, discography, and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Thompson, Gordon, 1949- Sixties British pop, outside in

ISBN:

9780190672348

019067234X

9780190672386

0190672382

9780190672355

0190672358

9780190672393

0190672390

OCLC:

1428713766