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The Beat Goes On : Liverpool, Popular Music and the Changing City, Paperback / softback Book

The Beat Goes On : Liverpool, Popular Music and the Changing City Paperback / softback

Edited by Marion (Department of Music, University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)) Leonard, Rob (Department of Music, University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)) Strachan

Part of the National Museums Liverpool series

Paperback / softback

Description

In 2001 the Guinness Book of Records declared Liverpool ‘City of Pop’, the City that has produced more hit records than anywhere else.

But why is Liverpool so important musically and how has it sustained its importance from the Beatles to the Zutons via Echo and the Bunnymen, Cream, The La’s and others?The Beat Goes On is a critical historical account of popular music in Liverpool which explores the contextual, creative and geographical factors that have contributed to the city’s status as a major centre of creativity within Anglo-Amercian popular music.

Rather than attempting to create a singular linear account of the history of popular music and its cultures within the city the book will take a thematic and case-study approach which will offer a new approach to the study of the subject.

The book is therefore necessarily interdisciplinary with contributions from experts from the field of popular music history, cultural geography, ethnography and musicology, alongside essays and interviews with Liverpool musicians.

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