| Contents |
Introduction: chasing the traces -- Living in a modern world. Popular culture ; Popular music ; Youth, leisure and pleasure -- A formative moment, 1956-63. 'Bopping the blues' ; 'One of the embarrassments of democracy' ; An 'American model' ; A British repertoire ; Out on the dance floor ; In the margins of pop -- Britain's 'inner voices', 1963-66. 'Affluence' and 'modernisation' ; British sounds ; 'All aboard... the night train' ; From modernists to fashion cycle -- The dream that exploded, 1966-71. American horizons ; 'California dreaming' ; Meanwhile, in Tottenham court road... ; The end of the trip -- Among the fragments, 1971-6. 'Art', 'authenticity' and 'roots' ; The fall-out: (i) heavy metal ; The fall-out: (ii) teenybopper pop ; The fall-out: (iii) glam rock -- The release from obscurity: black musics, 1966-76. Soul's two continents ; An island in Babylon ; Shantytown ; Ethnic dialogues: skinhead ; Scuffling in Ladbroke Grove ; 'Rastaman vibration' -- Urban soundscapes, 1976-. Releasing the unnameable ; England's dreaming ; The pulse of Africa in the body electric ; Another beat, another rock 'n' roll heart ; Pale figures in an electronic funk ; The paradoxes of crisis -- Conclusion: in the realm of the possible. Romance, the body, and the city. |
