Working Class Heroes: Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s
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Word Count
79,000 words, Guess
Page Count
316 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26860778M
- ISBN-139780739170519
- ISBN-100739170511
- OCLC Control Number809615999
- OCLC Control Numberworkingclasshero0000simo
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2012037309
Classifications
- LCCML3492.S56 2013
Description
In Working Class Heroes, David Simonelli explores the influence of rock and roll on British society in the 1960s and 70s. At a time when social distinctions were becoming harder to measure, rock musicians appeared to embody the mythical qualities of the idealized working class by perpetuating the image of rebellious, irreverent, and authentic musicians. In the process, these images helped change the way people looked at the concept of class in the mid-twentieth century and beyond [Publisher description]
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