ISBN:
9781108477246
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 365 Seiten
,
10 Illustrationen
,
26 cm
Parallel Title:
Online version Collins, Marcus, 1971- The Beatles and sixties Britain
DDC:
782.42166092/2
Keywords:
The Beatles
;
Geschichte 1960-1970
;
Politik
;
Soziokultur
;
Großbritannien
;
Beatles
;
Popular music / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 20th century
;
Popular music / Great Britain / 1961-1970 / History and criticism
;
Nineteen sixties
;
Beatles
;
Nineteen sixties
;
Popular music
;
Popular music / Social aspects
;
Great Britain
;
1900-1999
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
History
;
Großbritannien
;
The Beatles
;
Soziokultur
;
Politik
;
Geschichte 1960-1970
Abstract:
"This book seeks to understand what the Beatles meant to people in 1960s Britain. It argues that they were iconic, divisive, atypical and prefigurative: themes introduced and illustrated in the preface using contemporary cartoons. Their depiction as icons in the 1964 Daily Mail cartoon contrasted starkly with their first appearance in a Fleet Street cartoon twelve months previously, when theirs was one of a barrage of British records raining down on the Kremlin in a display of soft power. They received minor billing in February 1963 compared to Susan Maughan, Helen Shapiro, Cliff Richard, Adam Faith, Marty Wilde and the Tornados, as befitted a band whose second single (Please Please Me) was competing for the number one spot with Frank Ifield's The Wayward Wind (1963). Over the following year, they achieved what commentators agreed to be an unprecedented celebrity"--
Description / Table of Contents:
The Other Sixties : An Anti-Permissive Permissive Society? -- Society, 1963-65 : The Beatles and Modernity -- Society, 1966-70 : The Beatles Go Too Far -- Culture : The Beatles as Artists -- Politics : The Beatles, Parliament and Revolution
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