A Band With Built-In Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk - Couverture rigide

Stanfield, Peter

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ISBN 10 : 1789142776 ISBN 13 : 9781789142778

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2021

Synopsis

'Eloquently framing their success as the only successful 1960s UK pop/rock group that didn't want to be either The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, Stanfield locates The Who . . . at a boundary-breaking intersection of pop and art-rock.' - Tony Clayton-Lea, Irish Times

'This superb volume . . . feels fresh and without precedent, a scholarly yet thrilling study of the paradoxes that made The Who the most vital band of the '60s' - Shindig!

'Ours is music with built-in hatred.' - Pete Townshend
A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who from their inception as the Detours in the mid-sixties to the late seventies, post-Quadrophenia. It is a story of ambition and anger, glamour and grime, viewed through the prism of pop art and the radical levelling of high and low culture that it brought about – a drama that was aggressively performed by the band.
Peter Stanfield lays down a path through the British pop revolution, its attitude and style, as it was uniquely embodied by The Who: first, under the mentorship of arch-mod Peter Meaden, as they learnt their trade in the pubs and halls of suburban London; and then with Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, two aspiring filmmakers, at the very centre of things in Soho. Guided by contemporary commentators – among them George Melly, Lawrence Alloway and most conspicuously Nik Cohn – Stanfield describes a band driven by belligerence, and of what happened when Townshend, Daltrey, Moon and Entwistle moved from back-room stages to international arenas, from explosive 45s to expansive concept albums. Above all, he tells of how The Who confronted their lost youth as it was echoed in punk.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Stanfield’s books include Maximum Movies: Pulp Fictions and Hoodlum Movies. Music is integral to his work, be it the blue yodel of a singing cowboy or the chug 'n' churn of a biker soundtrack.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789142776
• ISBN 13: 9781789142778
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible