ART INTO POP

This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio, it focuses on two key moments - the early 1960s, when art students like John Lennon an...

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Main Authors: Frith, Simon (Author), Horne, Howard (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York Routledge Library Editions 2016
©1987
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Summary:This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio, it focuses on two key moments - the early 1960s, when art students like John Lennon and Eric Clapton begin to play their own versions of American rock and blues and inflected youth music with Bohemian dreams, and the late 1970s, when punk musicians emerged from design courses and fashion departments to disrupt what were, by then, art-rock routines.
Physical Description:206 pages illustrations 23 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9781138652682
1138652687
9781138649514