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Quadrophenia and Mod(ern) Culture

Author : Pamela Thurschwell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319647539
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Quadrophenia and Mod(ern) Culture written by Pamela Thurschwell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the centrality of The Who’s classic album, and Franc Roddam’s cult classic film of adolescent life, Quadrophenia to the recent cultural history of Britain, to British subcultural studies, and to a continuing fascination with Mod style and culture. The interdisciplinary chapters collected here set the album and film amongst critical contexts including gender and sexuality studies, class analysis, and the film and album’s urban geographies, seeing Quadrophenia as a transatlantic phenomenon and as a perennial adolescent story. Contributors view Quadrophenia through a variety of lenses, including the Who’s history and reception, the 1970s English political and social landscape, the adolescent novel of development (the bildungsroman), the perception of the film through the eyes of Mods and Mod revivalists, 1970s socialist politics, punk, glam, sharp suits, scooters and the Brighton train, arguing for the continuing richness of Quadrophenia’s depiction of the adolescent dilemma. The volume includes new interviews with Franc Roddam, director of Quadrophenia, and the photographer Ethan Russell, who took the photos for the album’s famous photo booklet.

"We are the Mods"

Author : Christine Jacqueline Feldman
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433103698
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book "We are the Mods" written by Christine Jacqueline Feldman and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on archival research, oral history interviews, and participant observation, this examination of the adoption and adaptation of Mod style across geographic space also maps its various interpretations over time, from the early 1960s to the present. The book traces the Mod youth culture from its genesis in the dimly lit clubs of London's Soho. where it began as a way for young people to reconfigure modernity after the chaos of World War II, to its contemporary, country-specific expressions. By examining Mod culture in the United States, Germany, and Japan alongside the United Kingdom, "We Are the Mods" contrasts the postwar development of Mod in those countries that lost the war with those that won. The book illuminates the culture's fashion, music, iconography, and gender aesthetics, to create a compelling portrait of a transnational subculture." --Book Jacket.

Chilling Out

Author : Blackman, Shane
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335200729
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Chilling Out written by Blackman, Shane and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author critically examines the assumptions underlying drug prohibition and explores the contradictions of drug prevention policies.

The Making of Quadrophenia

Author : Simon Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787601604
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Quadrophenia written by Simon Wells and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the making of Quadrophenia, the 1979 classic mod movie loosely based on The Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name, directed by Frank Roddam and starring Phil Daniels as the protagonist 'Jimmy'

The Who and Philosophy

Author : Rocco J. Gennaro
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498514480
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Who and Philosophy written by Rocco J. Gennaro and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Who were one of the most memorable and influential of the 1960s British Invasion bands—memorable because of their loudness and because they destroyed instruments during performances, and influential because of their success in crafting “Power Pop” singles like “My Generation” and “I Can See for Miles,” long-playing albums Live at Leeds and Who’s Next, and the “rock operas” Tommy and Quadrophenia. The themes that principal songwriter Pete Townshend imparted into The Who’s music drew upon the group’s mostly working-class London upbringings and early Mod audiences: frustration, angst, irony, and a youthful inclination to lash out. Like some of his rock and roll contemporaries, Townshend was also affected by religious ideas coming from India and the existential dread he felt about the possibility of nuclear war. During a career that spanned three decades, The Who gave their fans and rock critics a lot to think about. The remarkable depth and breadth of The Who’s music and their story as one of the most exciting and provocative rock bands over the last half-century are the subjects of the philosophical explorations in this collection.

Absolute Beginners

Author : Colin MacInnes
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749011408
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Absolute Beginners written by Colin MacInnes and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1958. In the smoky jazz clubs of Soho and the coffee bars of Notting Hill the young and the restless - the absolute beginners - are forging a new carefree lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Moving in the midst of this world of mods and rockers, Teddy gangs and trads., and snapping every scene with his trusty Rolleiflex, is MacInnes' young photographer, whose unique wit and honest views remain the definitive account of London life in the 1950s and what it means to be a teenager. In this twentieth century cult classic, MacInnes captures the spirit of a generation and creates the style bible for anyone interested in Mod culture, and the changing face of London in the era of the first race riots and the lead up to the swinging Sixties...

Introducing Cultural Studies

Author : David Walton
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1849204977
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Cultural Studies written by David Walton and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge... Innovative, creative and clever." - Times Higher Education "The ideal textbook for FE and first year HE cultural studies students. Its quality and character allow the reader to ‘feel’ the enthusiasm of its author which in turn becomes infectious, instilling in the reader a genuine sense of ebullient perturbation." - Art/Design/Media, The Higher Education Authority An introduction to the practice of cultural studies, this book is ideal for undergraduate courses. Full of practical exercises that will get students thinking and writing about the issues they encounter, this book offers its readers the conceptual tools to practice cultural analysis for themselves. There are heuristics to help students prepare and write projects, and the book provides plenty of examples to help students develop their own ideas. Written in a creative, playful and witty style, this book: Links key concepts to the key theorists of cultural studies. Includes a wide range of references of popular cultural forms. Emphasizes the multidisciplinary nature of cultural studies. Includes pedagogical features, such as dialogues, graphs, images and recommended readings. The book′s skills-based approach enables students to develop their creative skills, and shows students how to improve their powers of analysis generally.

Quadrophenia

Author : Simon Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957078345
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Quadrophenia written by Simon Wells and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's nearly 35 years since Quadrophenia hit the world's cinema screens. Jimmy the Mod's search for identity against the backdrop of the May Bank Holiday riots of the 1960s is regarded as the finest example of a British 'youth' movie and a warmly remembered timepiece for a generation. This book explores the making of Britain's great cult film and its subsequent influence on popular culture.

British Culture and Society in the 1970s

Author : Laurel Forster
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443818380
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book British Culture and Society in the 1970s written by Laurel Forster and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays highlights the variety of 1970s culture, and shows how it responded to the transformations that were taking place in that most elusive of decades. The 1970s was a period of extraordinary change on the social, sexual and political fronts. Moreover, the culture of the period was revolutionary in a number of ways; it was sometimes florid, innovatory, risk-taking and occasionally awkward and inconsistent. The essays collected here reflect this diversity and analyse many cultural forms of the 1970s. The book includes articles on literature, politics, drama, architecture, film, television, youth cultures, interior design, journalism, and contercultural “happenings”. Its coverage ranges across phenomena as diverse as the Wombles and Woman’s Own. The volume offers an interdisciplinary account of a fascinating period in British cultural history. This book makes an important intervention in the field of 1970s history. It is edited and introduced by Laurel Forster and Sue Harper, both experienced writers, and the book comprises work by both established and emerging scholars. Overall it makes an exciting interpretation of a momentous and colourful period in recent culture.

Quadrophenia

Author : Stephen Glynn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231167415
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Quadrophenia written by Stephen Glynn and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1964: Mods clash with Rockers in Brighton, creating a moral panic. 1973: ex-Mod band The Who release Quadrophenia, a concept album following young Mod Jimmy Cooper to the Brighton riots and beyond. 1979: Franc Roddam directs Quadrophenia, a film based on Pete Townshend's album narrative; its cult status is immediate. 2013: almost fifty years on from Brighton, this first academic study explores the lasting appeal of 'England's Rebel Without a Cause'. Investigating academic, music, press, and fan-based responses, Glynn argues that the 'Modyssey' enacted in Quadrophenia intrigues because it opens a hermetic subculture to its social-realist context; it enriches because it is a cult film that dares to explore the dangers in being part of a cult; it endures because of its 'emotional honesty', showing Jimmy as failing, with family, job, girl, and group; it excites because we all know that, at some point in our lives, 'I was there!'

British Film Culture in the 1970s

Author : Sue Harper
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748654283
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book British Film Culture in the 1970s written by Sue Harper and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws a map of British film culture in the 1970s and provides a wide-ranging history of the period.

Changing Trajectories of Religion and Popular Culture

Author : Slawomir Sztajer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643910568
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Changing Trajectories of Religion and Popular Culture written by Slawomir Sztajer and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural diversity and cultural change make it difficult to define and theorize cultural phenomena. This is especially apparent in the case of such cultural areas as religion and popular culture. This book presents ways to understand and explain the diversity and variability of religious and popular culture phenomena. The first part of this book focuses on the cognitive foundations and cultural dimensions of religious phenomena. The cognitive science of religion provides a new theoretical framework for explaining religious diversity and variability. The second part is dedicated to the study of selected phenomena of popular culture from the perspective distinctive to cultural anthropology. It attempts to bring into light this features of popular culture phenomena that have direct impact on cultural subjects.

Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon

Author : Tony Fletcher
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857122223
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon written by Tony Fletcher and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keith Moon was more than just rock's greatest drummer, he was also its greatest character and wildest party animal. Fuelled by vast quantities of drink, drugs, insecurities and confusion, Moon destroyed everything with gleeful abandon: drum kits, houses, cars, hotels, relationships and, finally, himself. In Dear Boy, Tony Fletcher has captured lightning in a bottle – the essence of a totally incorrigible yet uniquely generous boy who never grew up, and who changed the lives of all who knew him. From a life distorted by myths of debauchery and comic anarchy, Fletcher has created a searingly personal portrait of the rock legend. From over 100 first-hand interviews, he traces with deadly accuracy Moon's remarkable journey from his working-class Northwest London childhood, through the Who's glory years to the California high-life and a terrible, premature death. Here too are fascinating insights into the history of the Who and the emergent British pop culture revolution of post-war years. Keith Moon was one of the shock troops of that revolution: the world's greatest rock drummer, a phenomenal character and an extravagant hell-raiser who – in a final, uncharacteristic act of grace – actually did die before he got old.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture

Author : Michael Higgins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521864976
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture written by Michael Higgins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and informative set of perspectives on the key themes that shape modern Britain.

Popular Music and Automobiles

Author : Mark Duffett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501352326
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Popular Music and Automobiles written by Mark Duffett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particularly since the 1950s, cars and popular music have been constantly associated. As complementary goods and intertwined technologies, their relationship has become part of a widely shared experience-one that connects individuals and society, private worlds and public spheres. Popular Music and Automobiles aims to unpack that relationship in more detail. It explores the ways in which cars and car journeys have shaped society, as well as how we have shaped them. Including both broad synergies and specific case studies, Popular Music and Automobiles explores how attention to an ongoing relationship can reveal insights about the assertion and negotiation of identity. Using methods of enquiry that are as diverse as the topics they tackle, its contributors closely consider specific genders, genres, places and texts.

Word and Music Studies

Author : Suzanne M. Lodato
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042009936
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Word and Music Studies written by Suzanne M. Lodato and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteen interdisciplinary essays in this volume were presented in 2001 in Sydney, Australia, at the Third International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The conference celebrated the sixty-fifth birthday of Steven Paul Scher, arguably the central figure in word and music studies during the last thirty-five years. The first section of this volume comprises ten articles that discuss, or are methodologically based upon, Scher's many analyses of and critical commentaries on the field, particularly on interrelationships between words and music. The authors cover such topics as semiotics, intermediality, hermeneutics, the de-essentialization of the arts, and the works of a wide range of literary figures and composers that include Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust, T. S. Eliot, Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Britten, Schubert, Schumann, and Wagner. The second section consists of a second set of papers presented at the conference that are devoted to a different area of word and music studies: cultural identity and the musical stage. Eight scholars investigate - and often problematize - widespread assumptions regarding 'national' and 'cultural' music, language, plots, and production values in musical stage works. Topics include the National Socialists' construction of German national identity; reception-based examinations of cultural identity and various "national" opera styles; and the means by which composers, librettists, and lyricists have attempted to establish national or cultural identity through their stage works.

Subculture

Author : Dick Hebdige
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Subculture written by Dick Hebdige and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the UK's postwar, music-centred white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads to punks. (Adapted from back cover) Contents include: - From culture to hegemony - Case studies - The function of subculture - Style as intentional communication - Style as homology.