Youth and Permissive Social Change in British Music Papers, 1967-1983

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-319-91673-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music

This book is a work of press history that considers how the music press represented permissive social change for their youthful readership. Read by millions every week, the music press provided young people across the country with a guide to the sounds, personalities and controversies that shaped British popular music and, more broadly, British culture and society. 
By analysing music papers and oral history interviews with journalists and editors, Patrick Glen examines how papers represented a lucrative entertainment industry and mass press that had to negotiate tensions between alternative sentiments and commercial prerogatives. This book demonstrates, as a consequence, how music papers constructed political positions, public identities and social mores within the context of the market. As a result, descriptions and experiences of social change and youth were contingent on the understandings of class, gender, sexuality, race and locality.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glen, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: A Sea of Possibilities.- 2. Hungry Freaks, Well-fed Entertainers: Something Different in the Music Press.- 3.This is the Beginning of a New Age: New Papers, New Editors and the Underground .- 4. ‘Obligatory Cosmopolitan Musical Viewpoint’?: Gender and Sexuality in the 1970s Music Press.- 5. ‘The Titanic Sails at Dawn’: Punk Papers, Class, Youth and Deviance.- 6. ‘Too Much Paranoias?’: The Beginning of the End for the Inkies.- 7. Conclusions: Goodnight to the Rock and Roll Era?.

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Glen is a research fellow at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and teaches Music Journalism at the University of Salford, UK. He is the former Research Associate at University College London, UK, working on the AHRC 'Remembering 1960s British Cinema-going' project. He is also a musician and music journalist.