Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool
Author:   Laura Hamer (The Open University) ,  Michael Brocken
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009388856


Pages:   76
Publication Date:   10 April 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool


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The city of Liverpool is renowned for its popular music, although the formidable hagiography which has developed around the Beatles tends to dominate historical considerations to the virtual exclusion of the many other varied genres which have flourished in the city before, during, and after them. Within Liverpool's popular-music past is a partially hidden history of women's musical leadership. This Element concerns the Grafton Rooms' bandleader, dancer, and pianist Mary Hamer (1904–1992). Hamer led the otherwise all-male dance band at the Grafton for two decades, providing dancers with first-class dance music. The Element considers Hamer within the rapidly evolving dance music culture of interwar Liverpool, and discusses the different genres and sub-genres of popular music and dance presented at the Grafton and the role(s) of women in popular music and as bandleaders. This is contextualised within the contemporary social anxieties of popular dance cultures, sexuality, faith, class, and race.

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Author:   Laura Hamer (The Open University) ,  Michael Brocken
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.127kg
ISBN:  

9781009388856


ISBN 10:   1009388851
Pages:   76
Publication Date:   10 April 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: uncovering a hidden popular music history of Liverpool; 2. British dance music culture and interwar social anxieties; 3. Dancers, musicians, and managers: creating Mr Malcolm Munro, Marie Daly, and Wilf hammer; 4. Move to the Grafton rooms: Old Tyme nights and the built environment; 5. Taking over the band: Mrs Wilf Hamer and her boys, strategies of female dance band leadership; 6. Conclusion: gender, genre, and looking beyond the Beatles; Bibliography.

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