Other Voices: Hidden Histories of Liverpool's Popular Music Scenes, 1930s-1970s

ISBN-13: 9781138262133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 268 str.

Michael Brocken

Opis

At times it appears that a whole industry exists to perpetuate the myth of origin of the Beatles. Brocken argues that the music history of the Liverpool in which the Beatles grew and then departed is not fully represented. Other Voices presents a history of the disparate and now partially hidden musical strands that contributed to Liverpool's musical countenance. It is also a critique of Beatles-related institutionalized popular music mythology. By addressing such 'scenes' as those involving dance bands, traditional jazz, folk music, country and western, and rhythm and blues, together with a consideration of partially hidden key places and individuals, and Liverpool's first 'real' record label, an assemblage of 'other voices' bears witness to an 'other', seldom discussed, Liverpool.

Recenzje

’Brocken offers a palpable sense of the cultural and geographical landscape of the city across five decades, and shows that popular music scenes are always more than the sum of their historical accounts as laid out in the annals of halls of fame and museums dedicated to star performers ... (he) ably uncovers the complexities and heterogeneous nature of the musical worlds he describes... The success of Other Voices lies in Brocken's ability to research and present these histories, discourses and cultural spaces in such a rich and detailed way. It is an important contribution to the study and understanding of popular music.’ Times Higher Education 'Other Voices is a valuable addition to the academic literature on popular music history. Its rich and detailed analyses of Liverpool's varied music scenes across five decades highlights the limitations of viewing such histories in a linear, reductive fashion.' Popular Music

Spis treści

General Editor’s Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Looking back, not through – an overview: ‘Beatlesology’ and historicism; Chapter 2 Antediluvian images? Popular music and parochial space in inter-war Liverpool; Chapter 3 Jazz, the Cavern, and skiffle; Chapter 4 Oral histories, public and private spaces; the partially-hidden histories of Joe Flannery and Gardner Road, 1961-62; Chapter 5 I like your hat – country music and Liverpool; Chapter 6 Some Other Guys – R&B in Liverpool; Chapter 7 ‘Mist over the Mersey’ – folk scenes on Merseyside; Chapter 8 Cabaret – reality amid the fake; Chapter 9 Taste-makers, reception, word-of-mouth; Epilogue;

O autorze

Michael Brocken is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music Studies in the School of Music at Liverpool Hope University, UK.