The bebop scene in London's Soho, 1945-1950 : post-war Britain's first youth subculture / / Ray Kinsella

• Autore: Kinsella Ray
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 pages)
• Disciplina: 781.655
• Soggetto topico: Jazz; Bop (Music)
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Overview -- Key Terms: Definitions -- Contribution to Knowledge -- Histories of Jazz in Britain -- Histories of Post-War Youth Subcultures in Britain -- Methodology and Approach -- The Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: Contextualising Soho, 1800-1945 -- Introduction -- Soho: London's Cosmopolis -- A Short Comparison of Soho with Its Surrounding Imperial Thoroughfares -- The Mythologisation of Soho as a Carnivalesque Place -- Entertainment, Nightlife and Jazz in Soho During the Interwar Years -- Jazz and the Musicians' Union -- Bottle Parties, 1930-1945 -- Archer Street: A Meeting Point for Musicians -- Popular Music During the War: Swing and Dixieland Jazz -- Summing Up -- References -- Chapter 3: Bebop Music and the Soho Clubs -- Introduction -- Bebop's Roots in New York City -- Contested Notions of Bebop: Bird Versus Diz' -- Music of the Black Atlantic -- Bebop's Reception by the Music Press in Britain -- The Birth of Bebop in Britain: The Fullado Club, Soho, 1945-1947 -- Harlem in Soho -- The Transatlantic Migration of Bebop Records to Britain, 1947 -- Recording and Distribution -- Localising Bebop in Soho -- The Tito Burns Sextet and Commercial Bebop -- Metropolitan Bopera House -- The Feldman Club -- Club Eleven -- The Paramount Dance Hall -- Bebop Banned at Wimbledon Palais and on the BBC -- Bebop Banned by the BBC -- Summing Up -- References -- Chapter 4: Men's and Women's Sartorial Style in the Clubs: The Bebop Look -- Introduction -- A Very Brief History of the Traditional Suit -- The Zoot Suit -- Jazz and the Zoot Suit -- The British Version of the Men's Zoot Suit as a Prominent Feature of the Bebop Clubs in Soho -- Black Hipsters -- The Difference Between the Zoot Suit and the 'Spiv' Suit -- Customising the Zoot Suit Look. ; Gangster Chic and the Notion of the Spiv -- The Bebop 'Look' Influences Suburban London Youths Then Spreads All Over England -- The Bebop Style Spreads All Over England -- Women's Sartorial Style in the Soho Bebop Clubs -- A Very Brief History of Women's Fashion in Europe, 1914-1950 -- The Difference Between Women's Bebop Style and Women's Trad Jazz Style in the Clubs in Soho -- Summing Up -- References -- Chapter 5: The Police Raids on the Soho Bebop Clubs, 1947-1950 -- Introduction -- Drug Use in the Clubs -- The Police Raids on the Clubs -- The Fullado Club -- Club Eleven -- Paramount Dance Hall -- A Brief History of Drug Fears in Britain -- Miscegenation Fears in Britain After the First World War -- The Return of Pseudo-scientific Racism -- Miscegenation Fears and the 'Colour Bar' During the Second World War -- The Police Raids in Detail -- Summing Up -- References -- Chapter 6: Soho After the Raids -- Introduction -- A Short History of Soho's Bebop Clubs After the Police Raids -- Studio'51 -- The Flamingo Club -- Ronnie Scott's: 'First Place' and Frith Street -- The Musicians and Bands: Soho Pioneers, Emergent Players and Drugs -- Women, Class and Students at Bebop Clubs in 1950s Soho -- Musicians' Union Ban Relaxed -- The Birth of the Teenager and the Rise of Rock 'n' Roll -- New Folk Devils: The Teddy Boys -- Soho's Coffee Shops and Skiffle -- Record Labels and the Rise of Tin Pan Alley -- Summing Up -- References -- Chapter 7: Is This a Subculture? -- Introduction -- Music and Periodisation -- Race -- Clothes -- Resistance -- Moral Panic -- Spaces -- Drugs -- After Subculture -- Summing Up -- References -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- The Bebop Subculture in Soho: Why It Matters? -- Further Research -- Final Thoughts: Similarities with Acid House, Parallels with the Present and Structural Racism and Popular Culture in the 2020s -- Acid House. ; Parallels with Contemporary Britain -- Structural Racism and Popular Culture in the 2020s -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Bebop Scene in London's Soho, 1945-1950
• ISBN: 3-031-05555-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910632472003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music