Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles

ISBN-13: 9781138619296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 262 str.

Sara Cohen

Opis

This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. It examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s.

Spis treści

How is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? How, for example, did the Beatles emerge in Liverpool, how did they come to be categorized as part of Liverpool culture and identity and used to develop and promote the city, and how have connections between the Beatles and Liverpool been forged and contested? This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study.

O autorze

Sara Cohen