ISBN:
9781108769426
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 365 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
782.42166092/2
Keywords:
Beatles
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The Beatles
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Geschichte 1960-1970
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Popular music / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 20th century
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Popular music / Great Britain / 1961-1970 / History and criticism
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Nineteen sixties
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Politik
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Soziokultur
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Großbritannien
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Großbritannien
;
The Beatles
;
Soziokultur
;
Politik
;
Geschichte 1960-1970
Abstract:
Though the Beatles are nowadays considered national treasures, this book shows how and why they inspired phobia as well as mania in 1960s Britain. As symbols of modernity in the early sixties, they functioned as a stress test for British institutions and identities, at once displaying the possibilities and establishing the limits of change. Later in the decade, they developed forms of living, loving, thinking, looking, creating, worshipping and campaigning which became subjects of intense controversy. The ambivalent attitudes contemporaries displayed towards the Beatles are not captured in hackneyed ideas of the 'swinging sixties', the 'permissive society' and the all-conquering 'Fab Four'. Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary sources, The Beatles and Sixties Britain offers a new understanding of the band as existing in creative tension with postwar British society: their disruptive presence inciting a wholesale re-examination of social, political and cultural norms
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Mar 2020)
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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
DOI:
10.1017/9781108769426
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