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<p>Now available for direct ordering and/or free download… <br>
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Red Days: Popular Music & the English Counterculture 1965-1975<br>
John Roberts<br>
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Challenges the conventional narratives about English popular music
and the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s<br>
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The passion, intensity and complexity of the popular music
produced in England between 1965-75 is the work of an
extraordinary generation of working class and lower middle class
men and women (in alliance with a handful of middle-class men and
women) who saw in the new music the remaking of something bigger
than themselves, or more precisely, something bigger than
themselves that they could guide and shape and call their own. In
this the ‘use-values’ of popular music underwent an unprecedented
expansion and diversity during this period. Red Days presents how
music and action, music and discourse, experienced a profound
re-functioning as definitions of the popular unmoored themselves
from the condescending judgements of post-1950s high culture and
the sentiment of the old popular culture and the musicologically
conformist rock ‘n’ roll seeking to displace it. The remaking of
the popular between 1965-1975, accordingly, is more than a
revision of popular taste, it is, rather, the demolition of old
cultural allegiances and habits, as forces inside and outside of
music shattered the assumption of popular music as the home for
passive adolescent identifications. <br>
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Bio: John Roberts is Professor of Art & Aesthetics at the
University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of a number of
books, including <i>The Necessity of Errors</i> (2010), <i>Photography
and Its Violations</i> (2014), <i>Revolutionary Time and the
Avant-Garde</i> (2015), <i>Thoughts on an Index Not Freely
Given</i> (2016) and <i>The Reasoning of Unreason:
Universalism, Capitalism and Disenlightenment</i> (2018).<br>
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PDF available freely online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=981">http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=981</a><br>
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Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions now
for the special price of £10.<br>
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Release to the book trade June 2020<br>
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