Other Voices: Hidden Histories of Liverpool's Popular Music Scenes, 1930s-1970s (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754667933)

At times it appears that a whole industry exists to perpetuate the myth of origin of the Beatles. Brocken argues that the music history of the Liverpool in which the Beatles grew and then departed is not fully represented. Other Voices presents a history of the disparate and now partially hidden musical strands that contributed to Liverpool's musical countenance. It is also a critique of Beatles-related institutionalized popular music mythology. By addressing such 'scenes' as those involving dance bands, traditional jazz, folk music, country and western, and rhythm and blues, together with a consideration of partially hidden key places and individuals, and Liverpool's first 'real' record label, an assemblage of 'other voices' bears witness to an 'other', seldom discussed, Liverpool.

Author: Michael Brocken
ISBN-10: 0754667936
ISBN-13: 9780754667933
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/28/2009
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d