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Why Don'T We Do It In The Road?: The Beatles Phenomenon - 9780955183478
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9780955183478
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In Why Don?t We Do It In The Road? the author looks back to the 1960s and the global phenomenon surrounding four young men from Liverpool . . .The names and the songs are well known, but the ?why?? is more difficult to assess - even with hindsight - against the glare of the music industry?s powerful myth-making apparatus. . .John Astley deploys his forensic skills as a sociologist todevelop an original take on the kaleidoscopic landscape that gave birth to The Beatles phenomenon . . .The reader is invited to take a peep back into the recent past - at the post-War years in England. . .the trembling class structure of an exhausted society. . .and the advent of global communicationsin the 1960s as the music industry and British culture is unmade and remade . . .Put another way, ?Why Don?t We DoIt In The Road?? is question that has gone answered for four decades - until now. John Astley is a writer and lecturer - and is a frequent contributor to journals, conferences, and radio talks. As a sociologist of culture, he is also the author of three volumes of collected essays: Liberation & Domestication, Culture & Creativity, and Professionalism & Practice. John Astley is currently working on Herbivores and Carnivores, a timely investigation into cultural values in contemporary society.
- | Author: John Astley
- | Publisher: John Astley
- | Publication Date: Feb 20, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0955183472
- | ISBN-13: 9780955183478
- Author:
- John Astley
- Publisher:
- John Astley
- Publication Date:
- Feb 20, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 240 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0955183472
- ISBN-13:
- 9780955183478