Buch A SOCIAL HISTORY OF EARLY ROCK ‚N‘ ROLL IN GERMANY

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Donnerstag 31. Mai 2018:

Buch A SOCIAL HISTORY OF EARLY ROCK ‚N‘ ROLL IN GERMANY

Warum dieses Buch schon seitens des englischen Verlags Bloomsbury derart überteuert angeboten wird, ist nicht nachvollziehbar. Wir haben das Buch deshalb im Programm, weil es eine populärwissenschaftliche Ausarbeitung ist.

Autorin: Julia Sneeringer / Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, Großbritannien / ISBN-10: 135003438X; ISBN-13: 978-1350034389.

Gebundene Ausgabe / Format 23,8 cm x 15,8 cm / 304 Seiten / englischsprachig.

Inhalt: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Intruduction – Days in the life if Rock’n’roll in St. Pauli; A brief history of Entertainment in St. Pauli; The birth of the rock’n’roll clubs; The Musicians; Fans and audiences, The authorities; The end of the Hamburg scene; Epilogue; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Pressetext: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF EARLY ROCK ‚N‘ ROLL IN GERMANY explores the people and spaces of St. Paulis rocknroll scene in the 1960s. Starting in 1960, young British rockers were hired to entertain tourists in Hamburgs red-light district around the Reeperbahn in the area of St. Pauli. German youths quickly joined in to experience the forbidden thrill of rocknroll, and used African American sounds to distance themselves from the old Nazi generation. In 1962 the Star Club opened and drew international attention for hosting some of the Beatles‘ most influential performances. In this book, Julia Sneeringer weaves together this story of youth culture with histories of sex and gender, popular culture, media, and subculture. By exploring the history of one locale in depth, Sneeringer offers a welcome contribution to the scholarly literature on space, place, sound and the city, and pays overdue attention to the impact that Hamburg had upon music and style. She is also careful to place performers such as The Beatles back into the social, spatial, and musical contexts that shaped them and their generation. This book reveals that transnational encounters between musicians, fans, entrepreneurs and businessmen in St. Pauli produced a musical style that provided emotional and physical liberation and challenged powerful forces of conservatism and conformity with effects that transformed the world for decades to come.

Beatles Museum:

Der Hinweis IN GERMANY im Titel ist nicht ganz richtig. Der Untertitel HAMBURG FROM BURLESQUE TO THE BEATLES – 1956 – ’69 verrät, dass es um die Hamburger Szene von 1956 bis 1969 geht. In den Jahgren 1960 bis 1962 gehörten die Beatles auch dazu. (Die beiden Beatles-Konzerte in der Ernst-Merck-Halle am Sonntag 26. Juni 1966 haben mit der geschilderten Hamburg-Szene nichts zu tun.)

Hoffentlich erscheint diese englischsprachige Erstausgabe bald auch auf Deutsch – zu einem akzeptablen Preis.