The Canterbury sound in popular music : scene, identity and myth

This collection is a unique exploration of the heritage and legacy of the Canterbury Sound: a signature style emerging in the 1960s that draws upon psychedelic music, progressive rock, jazz and pop to capture the real and imagined interactions between people, place and music. The volume recounts the...

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Other Authors Draganova, Asya (Editor), Blackman, Shane (Editor), Bennett, Andy (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesEmerald studies in popular music and place
Subjects
Popular music > England > Canterbury > History and criticism.
Psychedelic rock music > England > Canterbury > History and criticism.
Progressive rock music > England > Canterbury > History and criticism.
Jazz > England > Canterbury > History and criticism.
Canterbury (England) > History > 20th century.
Canterbury (England) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781787694910
DOI10.1108/9781787694897
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 296 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Trying to Remember the Good Stuff: An extended Foreword / Asya Draganova with Robert Wyatt
  • Introduction and leitmotifs / Asya Draganova, Shane Blackman and Andy Bennett
  • PART I. EMERGENCE, SOUND AND SCENE
  • Chapter 1. The Canterbury Sound as a Local, Translocal and Virtual Scene / Andy Bennett
  • Chapter 2. The Canterbury Sound - From the beginning / Brian Hopper
  • Chapter 3. The Canterbury Scenius / Murray Smith
  • PART II. JOURNEYS AND RETURNS
  • Chapter 4. From Canterbury to Kamijima: a musical journey / Dave Sinclair
  • Chapter 5. Unicorns, uniforms and the Canterbury Sound / Jack Hues
  • Chapter 6. Canterbury paths through the States / Rick Chafen
  • Chapter 7. From a fan' point of view / Richard Dove
  • PART 3. PEOPLE
  • Chapter 8. Locating Robert Wyatt: Canterbury Sound and quintessential Englishness / Marcus O'Dair
  • Chapter 9. A view from across the desk - An engineer's personal perspective of the Canterbury Scene / David Woolgar
  • Chapter 10. The Sinclair Spectrum and Pathways of Artistic Influence / Billie Bottle
  • Chapter 11. "Songs from the bottom of a well" or Morpheus in the underworld: some thoughts on the music and lyrics of Kevin Ayers / Neil Saunders
  • Chapter 12. Biographical Interviews and Reflections: ethnographic conversations from within the Canterbury Sound / Curated by Asya Draganova and Shane Blackman
  • Interviews with Geoffrey Richardson, Pye Hastings, Neil Sullivan and Maria Sullivan
  • PART IV. DOCUMENTING MUSIC PRACTICES
  • Chapter 13. Researching and documenting the scene - online and offline / Aymeric Leroy
  • Chapter 14. The story of Facelift - a fanzine exploring the Canterbury scene and beyond in the pre-internet age - and its role in knitting together an international community of fans / Phil Howitt
  • Chapter 15. 'Canterbury music' and music in Canterbury / Alan Payne
  • PART V. MYTHS AND REALITIES: MUSIC IN CONTEMPORARY CANTERBURY
  • Chapter 16. Contemporary pocket music scene in Canterbury: an ethnographic study on D.I.Y. student bands / Mengyao Jiang
  • Chapter 17. Free Range: a Canterbury Scene / Sam Bailey
  • Chapter 18. Blue Gems and Colliding Moons: furthering the Canterbury Underground / Adam Brodigan
  • Chapter 19. Humour and gender of the 'mischievous imaginary' within the Canterbury Sound of Soft Machine, Gong and Caravan / Shane Blackman and Asya Draganova
  • Afterword: Three personal reflections on the muse of the Canterbury Sound / Asya Draganova, Shane Blackman and Andy Bennett.

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