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Author: Subcultures Network
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.645kg
ISBN: 9781526159984
ISBN 10: 1526159988
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 24 October 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Let’s spend the night together: sex, pop music and British youth culture, 1950s–80s - Matthew Worley, Keith Gildart, Anna Gough-Yates, Sian Lincoln, Bill Osgerby, Lucy Robinson, John Street, Pete Webb 1. Where were you? UK chart pop and the commodification of the teenage libido, 1952–63 - Tom Hennessy 2. The Jerry Lee Lewis scandal, the popular press and the moral standing of rock ‘n’ roll in late 1950s Britain - Gillian A.M. Mitchell 3. ‘I’m different; I’m tough; I fuck’: attitudes towards young men, sex and masculinity in Nik Cohn’s Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: Pop from the Beginning (1969) - Patrick Glen 4. ‘We are no longer certain, any of us, what is “right” and what is “wrong”’: Honey, Petticoat, and the construction of young women’s sexuality in 1960s Britain - Sarah Kenny 5. Lovers’ lanes and haystacks: rural spaces, girls’ experiences of courtship and sexual intimacy in post-war England - Sian Edwards 6. Queering modernism: social, sartorial and spatial intersections between mod and gay (sub-) culture, 1957–67 - Shaun Cole and Paul Sweetman 7. ‘You just let your hair down’: lesbian parties and clubs in the 1960s and early 1970s - Alison Oram 8. Singing Elton’s song: queer sexualities and youth cultures in England and Wales, 1967–85 - Daryl Leeworthy 9. ‘Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out’: Blowup (1966) and the free hedonism(s) of Swinging London - Marlie Centawer 10. ‘Everything gets boring after a time’: Deep End and swinging sex - David Wilkinson 11. Run the track, but no bother chat slack: overstanding the relationship between slackness and culture within the reggae dancehall, 1960s–80s - William ‘Lez’ Henry 12. ‘This could be a night to remember’: authenticity, historicising and the silencing of sexual experience in the northern soul scene - Sarah Raine and Caitlin Shentall 13. ‘Mummy … what is a Sex Pistol?’: SEX, sex and British punk in the 1970s - Matthew Worley 14. The ‘style terrorism’ of Siouxsie Sioux: femininity, early goth aesthetics and BDSM fashion - Claire Nally 15. Coming of age Asian and Muslim in post-punk West Yorkshire - Nabeel Zuberi 16. ‘I’m your man’: heartthrobs and banter in Smash Hits - Hannah Charnock -- .
Reviews
'This is a probing book and easy to read for anyone with even a cursory knowledge of British pop culture and its history over the past seventy-five years... it's worth picking up, as noted, by academics looking to teach the subject, or by the average university-educated reader.' Journal of British Studies -- .
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The Subcultures Network is the interdisciplinary network for the study of subcultures, popular music and social change, hosted by the University of Reading.
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