Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/53/46/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date15 July 1964
DescriptionCharles Parker interviews Colin Fletcher and Mr Mitchell

Tracks 1-2: They talk about beat music as an 'institutionalised escape valve', sex and beat music - the clubs are moral, people go to clubs to dance, relationships between boys and girls at beat clubs, people at clubs always dance with a partner, sexual symbolism in the dance, the social sanction in beat clubs against two lads dancing together
Track 3: He talks about enjoying beat music, analysing it as a sociologist, 2.08 mins
Track 4: He talks about pubs and clubs as escape valves, where people let themselves go, adolescents have no sources of responsibility outside beat clubs, no ways of tying themselves to society, 1.29 mins
Track 5: They talk about judging a man by his money and his clothes, that beat managers have nothing substantial to offer, they argue that there is nothing positive in beat, 1.53 mins
Track 6: They talk about teenagers being tired of criticism from adult society, teenagers not seeing that they are being milked for money, whether there is an element of rebellion in beat music, 2.31 mins
Track 7: They discuss recent articles in the 'Liverpool Echo' about the Beatles and adolescents, 2.03 mins

Total: 15.35 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0971880
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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