The production of English rock and roll stardom in the 1950s
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v4i3.271Keywords:
Production-of-culture, starmaking, UKAbstract
Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in both history and stardom within Popular Music Studies. Yet one of the major sites for the production of commercial popular muisc since the 1960s – the UK – still lacks a comprehensive social history of its contribution to this artform. In particular the history of early UK rock and roll and its attendant stardom has been somewhat neglected. This article uses Richard Peterson’s production of culture thesis as a means by which to explore both early UK rock and roll stardom and the thesis itself.
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Peterson, R. 1976. ‘The Production of Culture Prolegomenon’. American Behavioral Scientist 19: 669–84. doi:10.1177/000276427601900601
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Peterson, R., and D. Anand. 2004. ‘The Production of Culture Perspective’. American Review of Sociology 30: 311–34. doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110557
Philpott, T. 1996. ‘The Bermondsey Miracle’. In The Faber Book of Pop, ed. Hanif Kureishi and Jon Savage, 63–67. London: Faber and Faber [1957].
Rogan, J. 1988. Starmakers and Svengalis. London: Queen Anne Press.
Rogers, D. 1982. Rock ’n’ Roll. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Savage, J. 1996. ‘Introduction’. In The Faber Book of Pop, ed. Hanif Kureishi and Jon Savage, xxi–xxxxiii. London: Faber and Faber.
Smurthwaite, N. 2005. ‘Scene Stealer—Tommy Steele’. The Stage, 7 November 2005, http:// www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/10322
Steele, T. 2006. Bermondsey Boy. London: Michael Joseph.
Street, J. 2004. ‘Celebrity Politicians: Popular Culture and Political Representation’. British Journal of Popular Culture and Political Representation 6: 435–52.
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Whitcomb, I. 1994. After The Ball, 2nd ed. New York: Limelight.
Williamson, J., and M. Cloonan. 2007. ‘Rethinking the Music Industry’. Popular Music 26/2: 305–22. doi:10.1017/S0261143007001262
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2011-02-10
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Cloonan, M. (2011). The production of English rock and roll stardom in the 1950s. Popular Music History, 4(3), 271–287. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v4i3.271
