The Bebop Scene in London's Soho, 1945-1950
Post-war Britain's First Youth Subculture
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is the first book to tell the story of the bebop subculture in London's Soho, a subculture that emerged in 1945 and reached its pinnacle in 1950. In an exploration via the intersections of race, class and gender, it shows how bebop identities...
Jetzt vorbestellen
versandkostenfrei
Buch (Gebunden)
131.99 €
- Lastschrift, Kreditkarte, Paypal, Rechnung
- Kostenlose Rücksendung
- Ratenzahlung möglich
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „The Bebop Scene in London's Soho, 1945-1950 “
Klappentext zu „The Bebop Scene in London's Soho, 1945-1950 “
This is the first book to tell the story of the bebop subculture in London's Soho, a subculture that emerged in 1945 and reached its pinnacle in 1950. In an exploration via the intersections of race, class and gender, it shows how bebop identities were constructed and articulated. Combining a wide range of archival research and theory, the book evocatively demonstrates how the scene evolved in Soho's clubs, the fashion that formed around the music, drug usage amongst a contingent of the group, and the moral panic which led to the police raids on the clubs between 1947 and 1950. Thereafter it maps the changes in popular culture in Soho during the 1950s, and argues that the bebop story is an important precedent to the institutional harassment of black-related spaces and culture that continued in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book therefore rewrites the first chapter of the 'classic' subcultural canon, and resets the subcultural clock; requiring us to rethink the periodization and social make-up of British post-war youth subcultures.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Bebop Scene in London's Soho, 1945-1950 “
1. Introduction.- 2. Contextualizing Soho, 1800-1945.- 3. Bebop Music and the Soho Clubs.- 4. Men's and Women's Sartorial Style in the Clubs: The Bebop Look.- 5. The Police Raids on the Soho Bebop Clubs, 1947-1950.- 6. Soho After the Raids.- 7. Is This a Subculture?.- 8. Conclusion.
Autoren-Porträt von Ray Kinsella
Ray Kinsella is a writer and part-time Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the Arts London, UK.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ray Kinsella
- 2022, 1st ed. 2022, XV, 275 Seiten, Maße: 14,8 x 21 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3031055543
- ISBN-13: 9783031055546
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Ray Kinsella's book, which is based on his PhD thesis, sheds light on the dimly lit British bebop scene of the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s. It gently disproves misconceptions about beboppers and the milieu they created. ... The Bebop Scene in London's Soho is an authoritative text on a neglected subject in British cultural history. ... the book uses it as an entry point to explore wider topics, such as histories of fashion, race, gender ... ." (Jacob Bloomfield, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, July 6, 2023)
Kommentar zu "The Bebop Scene in London's Soho, 1945-1950"
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "The Bebop Scene in London's Soho, 1945-1950".
Kommentar verfassen