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The Beatles and Sixties Britain
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface: Imagining the Beatles
- Introduction
- 1 The Other Sixties: An Anti-Permissive Permissive Society?
- 2 Society, 1963â1965: The Beatles and Modernity
- 3 Society, 1966â1970: The Beatles Go Too Far
- 4 Culture: The Beatles as Artists
- 5 Politics: The Beatles, Parliament and Revolution
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index