Beschreibung:
By Carey Fleiner
Carey Fleiner examines English rock group the Kinks and their social and cultural influences both on and by the group from the early '60s to present day. In and around the biographical survey of the band's career, The Kinks looks at the several contexts in which the Kinks-and more recently, band founders and brother Ray and Dave Davies as solo acts-created and performed their work.
Preface: Ordinary LivesChapter 1: Introduction: Around the DialChapter 2: Something Better Beginning: Rock and Roll in the late '50s and Early '60s in Great BritainChapter 3: 'Top of the Pops:' Packaging, Marketing, and Image in the British Invasion 1964-1965Chapter 4: Everybody's Gonna Be Happy: Humour and the KinksChapter 5: I Know What I Am, and I'm Glad I'm a Man: Sexuality and Gender in the Music of theKinksChapter 6: Here Comes Mr Flash: Anti-Utopia, Politics, and Social ConsciousnessChapter 7: I Miss the Village Green: The Past as RefugeChapter 8: Rock and Roll Celluloid Heroes: The Legacy of the Kinks