The Beatles and Sixties Britain
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The Beatles and Sixties Britain

  1. 386 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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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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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781108477246
eBook ISBN
9781108853668
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. Preface: Imagining the Beatles
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The Other Sixties: An Anti-Permissive Permissive Society?
  11. 2 Society, 1963–1965: The Beatles and Modernity
  12. 3 Society, 1966–1970: The Beatles Go Too Far
  13. 4 Culture: The Beatles as Artists
  14. 5 Politics: The Beatles, Parliament and Revolution
  15. Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index

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