| Description | Track 1: Eric Hobsbawm talks about newspapers and pop music aimed at the working-class market after the Second World War; in pop music this change came in the mid-1950s, 1.37 mins
Track 2: The interviewer asks him to explain how the proletarian audience came to mass music in the 1950s; he says that this is a product of the mass consumption society and of the spending power of the working-class teenager and that music had not been marketed at a working-class audience before, 2.53 mins
Track 3: He talks about protest in music in the 1950s and the reasons for protest, 2.54 mins
Track 4: He talks about phases in the popularity of artists and talks about Elvis Presley's career, some kids are caught by manipulated pop music, he talks about early examples of protest songs whether the words or the tone are more important and discusses Bob Dylan's poetry, 2.52 mins
Track 5: He talks about the importance of discussing the words of pop songs and the criteria that should be applied to pop songs, 2.27 mins
Track 6: The interviewer asks what response teenagers are expected to make to pop music and he says he would not like to guess without doing more research, he discusses the role of protest and sex, 2.50 mins
Track 7: He talks about Elvis Presley and the Beatles' sex appeal, technology enabling the amateur to become a pop star, someone with whom the kids will identify, 3.49 mins
Total: 19.24 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0358780 |