This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. It highlights popular music’s unique role and significance in the making of cities, in processes of deindustrialization and in producing and promoting local culture.
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Rock Culture in Liverpool: Popular Music in the Making – Sara Cohen (1991)
This book delineates and discusses rock culture in Liverpool as a way or style of life, highlighting its associated conventions, rituals, norms, and beliefs within the city’s own unique social, economic, cultural, and political environment. It deals with the hitherto little explored music-making by ‘local’, ‘amateur’ rock bands.
A polyethnic London carnival as a contested cultural performance – Abner Cohen (2002)
Banned! Censorship of Popular Music in Britain:1967-1992 – Martin Cloonan (1996)
The Politics of Pop Festivals – Michael Clarke (1982)
Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City (2nd Edition) – Paul Chevigny (2005)
Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans – Daniel Cavicchi (1998)
Based on of ethnographic research amid Springsteen’s fans, and informed by the author’s own experiences as a fan, this is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form special, sustained attachments to a particular artist and his songs, and of how these attachments function in their lives.