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Pop was the ‘sound of the city’ in Britain as much as America.
Pop was the ‘sound of the city’ in Britain as much as America.
But what kind of ‘urban’ was involved—big city, small town, centre, suburb?
What kind of geographical reach did pop have across the different parts of the United Kingdom in the 1960s?
What was the significance of London in a cultural movement that was simultaneously national and international?
The First Pop Nation? Britain in the 1960s
In this lecture Simon Gunn explores what made Britain so fertile a locus for the pop revolution from the late 1950s. It is a journey that encompasses the ‘affluent society’ and the post-war baby boomers, the British Empire and the global export of music. As a story it has an extraordinary cast of characters – pill-popping Mods, gangster managers and mascara-eyed divas like Dusty Springfield. But the lecture also asks fundamental questions about what makes a culture ‘creative’ and why Britain, in particular, was able to generate successive youth movements, from pop to punk and beyond.
The First Pop Nation? Britain in the 1960s
In this lecture Simon Gunn explores what made Britain so fertile a locus for the pop revolution from the late 1950s. It is a journey that encompasses the ‘affluent society’ and the post-war baby boomers, the British Empire and the global export of music. As a story it has an extraordinary cast of characters – pill-popping Mods, gangster managers and mascara-eyed divas like Dusty Springfield. But the lecture also asks fundamental questions about what makes a culture ‘creative’ and why Britain, in particular, was able to generate successive youth movements, from pop to punk and beyond.
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