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Intellect
Language
English
Pages
207

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Subjects
Rock musicians, Humor, Punk rock music, Rock music, Humor in music, History and criticism, Humor, general, Rock groups
Places
Great Britain

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Brit wits: a history of British rock humor
2012, Intellect
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Brit Wits: A History of British Rock Humor
2011, Intellect, Limited
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Table of Contents

Introduction : British, rock, humor. Manifestations across the nation ; Home is where the humor is ; Coordinates and determinants ; The ins and outs
Starting points. Music hall comedy ; George Formby
The Fifties. American dreaming ; Lonnie Donegan
The Sixties. Accent-uations ; The Beatles ; The Kinks ; Wacky whimsy ; Pink Floyd ; Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band ; Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes : David Bowie, part one
The Seventies. Glam bam! ; David Bowie, part two ; Roxy Music ; Goin' down th' pubs ; Ian Dury ; Never mind the bollocks, here's British punk ; Sex Pistols ; The Slits ; Punk poetry ; John Cooper Clarke ; The nutty sound ; Madness
The Eighties. New Romantics ; ABC ; New traditionalists ; The Smiths ; Billy Bragg ; Pop go the Scots ; The Proclaimers ; Manc lads ; The Macc Lads ; Happy Mondays
The Nineties. Girl power! ; Spice Girls ; Cool Britannia ; Blur ; Pulp ; Techno-shock therapy ; The KLF
The Naughties. 2-steppin' out ; The Streets ; London's anti-divas ; Lily Allen ; Britpop's up again ; Arctic Monkeys ; Art brut ; Welsh wits
Closing points.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Bristol, UK, Chicago
Other Titles
History of British rock humor

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Dewey Decimal Class
782.4216/30941
Library of Congress
ML3534.6.G7 E55 2012, , ML3534.6.G7 E45 2012

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vi, 207 p.
Number of pages
207

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OL27137603M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
184150565X
ISBN 13
9781841505657
OCLC/WorldCat
760972965

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