Informationen zu "A Social History of Early Rock 'n' Roll in Germany Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69"
Komponist/Autor: Julia Sneeringer
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verlagsnummer: 9781350139534
EAN: 9781350139534
ISBN: 978-1-350-13953-4
Beschreibung
A Social History of Early Rock 'n' Roll in Germany explores the people and
spaces of St. Pauli's rock'n'roll scene in the 1960s. Starting in 1960, young
British rockers were hired to entertain tourists in Hamburg's red-light
district around the Reeperbahn in the area of St. Pauli. German youths
quickly joined in to experience the forbidden thrill of rock'n'roll, 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.
