A Hard Days Night for the Liverpool Working Class

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, alice
wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Working Class Audience of Rock Music,
> Liverpool in the 1960s
> Tetsuya TAGUCH
>
> Abstract: Postwar Liverpool, a de-industrialized and declining port
> town, once a centre of Atlantic trade, was animated with American music.
> Sailors brought home records of jazz and early R & B. It is there that
> began to spark a totally new form of working class culture. In the 1960s
> the Beatles, originally an R & B outfit of four Liverpudlian lads, was in
> vogue. Unlike mass-produced, marketable American pop music scene,
> British rock music was nurtured by its working class audience. Performers
> and audiences stimulated each other in an unprecedently crazed manner.
> Few indeed understood what was happening. The phenomenon was
> visible among the older generation only as delinquency. Why were young
> people screaming and yelling? Here is my answer.

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> http://www1.doshisha.ac.jp/~hnishino/tools/gengobunka/pdf2/02taguchi.pdf

Thanks!  And see as well, e.g., ...

Cohen, Sara.  Rock Culture in Liverpool:
   Popular Music in the Making.  NY: Oxford UP, 1991.

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/PopularMusic/PopRockPopularCulture/?view=usa&ci=9780198161783

Cohen, Sara.  Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture:
   Beyond the Beatles.  London: Ashgate, 2007.

http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=5545&edition_id=6750&calcTitle=1