Why Don't We Do It In The Road?

The "Beatles" Phenomenon

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John Astley

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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 locate - even with hindsight - against the glare of the music industry's powerful, myth-making apparatus...John Astley deploys his forensic skills as a sociologist of culture to develop 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's Liverpool...the trembling class structure of an exhausted society...the advent of "youth" as a demographic force - and the explosion of electronic music in the 1960s as British culture is unmade and remade..."Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" is a question that has gone unanswered for four decades - that is, until now ...

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

April 6th, 2006

Author

John Astley

Brand

The Beatles

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

black & white illustrations

Pages

240

Dimensions

127x203x13

ISBN-13

9780955183478

Product ID

2228223

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