"I Read the News Today, Oh Boy": Oppositional Consciousness-Raising in British Invasion Rock.
British Invasion rock bands emerged within a particularly unique societal context. World War II had a significant and lasting impact on a generation of British youth growing up in the economic hardship of its immediate wake. There were, in fact, quite a lot more youth to go around with a postwar bab...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Vol. 101; pp. 369 - 388 |
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Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters
2024
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