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The Beatles and Sixties Britain (Hardcover)
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The Beatles and Sixties Britain (Hardcover)
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Though the Beatles are nowadays considered national treasures, this
book shows how and why they inspired phobia as well as mania in
1960s Britain. As symbols of modernity in the early sixties, they
functioned as a stress test for British institutions and
identities, at once displaying the possibilities and establishing
the limits of change. Later in the decade, they developed forms of
living, loving, thinking, looking, creating, worshipping and
campaigning which became subjects of intense controversy. The
ambivalent attitudes contemporaries displayed towards the Beatles
are not captured in hackneyed ideas of the 'swinging sixties', the
'permissive society' and the all-conquering 'Fab Four'. Drawing
upon a wealth of contemporary sources, The Beatles and Sixties
Britain offers a new understanding of the band as existing in
creative tension with postwar British society: their disruptive
presence inciting a wholesale re-examination of social, political
and cultural norms.
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