Marcus Collins

The Beatles and Sixties Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

In this rigorous study, Marcus Collins reconceives the Beatles' social, cultural and political impact on sixties Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 165mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781108477246
• ISBN-10: 1108477240
• Artikelnr.: 58768890

Autorenporträt

Marcus Collins is Senior Lecturer in Cultural History at Loughborough University and an elected member of Council of the Royal Historical Society. A specialist on popular culture and social change since 1945, he is author of Modern Love: An Intimate History of Men and Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (2003), editor of The Permissive Society and its Enemies: Sixties British Culture (2007) and co-author of Why Study History? (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The other sixties: an anti-permissive permissive society?
2. Society, 1963-65: The Beatles and modernity
3. Society, 1966-70: The Beatles go too far
4. Culture: the Beatles as artists
5. Politics: the Beatles, parliament and revolution
Conclusion.