The Beat Goes On
Liverpool, Popular Music and the Changing City
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
In 2001 the Guinness Book of Records declared Liverpool the “City of Pop” for producing more hit records than any other city. The Beat Goes On is a historical account of popular music in Liverpool that explores the contextual, creative, and geographical factors that have contributed to the city’s status as a major center of musical creativity. With contributions from experts in popular music history, cultural geography, ethnography, and musicology, alongside essays and interviews with Liverpool musicians and rare archival images, this volume offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the city’s unique place in the realm of popular music.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: creativity, representation and place
Robert Strachan and Marion Leonard
1 Historical approaches to Merseybeat: delivery, affinity and diversity
Ian Inglis
2 Growing up with the Beatles
Spencer Leigh
3 From sea shanties to cosmic scousers: the city, memory and representation
in Liverpool's popular music
Robert Strachan
4 Pubs in the precinct: music making, retail developments and the characterization
of urban space
Sara Cohen and Brett Lashua
5 The soul continuum: Liverpool black musicians and the UK music industry from the
1950s to the 1980s
Robert Strachan
6 Not just one of the boys: gender, representation and the historical record
Marion Leonard
7 Liverpool's 1970s bohemia: Deaf School, Eric's and the post-punk scene
Robert Strachan
8 Dance moves: finding a place for house music in Liverpool
Georgina Young
9 The creative process: Liverpool songwriters on songwriting
Marion Leonard
Index
Music: General Music
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