Download or read book Brit Girls of the Sixties Volume Three Cilla Black Sandie Shaw Lulu written by David Bret and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cilla Black was the only important British female singer to emerge from the "Mersey Sound" explosion of the early 1960s. The archetypal girl-next-door, her speciality was powerhouse Continental ballads, with which she was unrivalled. "The Barefoot Princess From Dagenham," Sandie Shaw was one of the decade's most alluring images. She topped the British charts three times and romped to victory in the Eurovision Song Contest at a time when the songs were worth listening to. Lulu was the wee Scottish lassie with the voice which could demolish a skyscraper. Hers was a bigger struggle than most, from Glasgow tenement block to superstardom. She starred in one good movie, was the only Brit Girl to top the US charts, married a Bee Gee, and also won Eurovision. Like Sandie, following a slump in her career she briefly returned to chart glory, singing with the boy band, Take That. Also in this series: Brit Girls Of The Sixties Volume One: Dusty Springfield & Helen Shapiro; Volume Two: Marianne Faithfull & Kathy Kirby.
Download or read book Brit Girls of the Sixties written by David Bret and published by . This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the lives and careers of pop singers Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw, and Lulu.
Download or read book Brit Girls of the Sixties Dusty Springfield written by David Bret and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of the unique style known as "blue-eyed soul," Dusty Springfield was instrumental in introducing Motown to Britain, and for several years reigned supreme on both sides of the Atlantic. Her voice--flutelike, smoky and sensual, often in the space of the same song--was similarly unique. Two decades after her passing she remains a show business legend--yet she also remains an enigma, a completely self-fabricated, difficult, yet strangely vulnerable woman who allowed few into her complex, personal world where at times there was little difference between reality and make believe. David Bret is one of Britain's leading celebrity biographers. In this the first of his "Brit Girls" series, which also includes the story of teen sensation Helen Shapiro, he tells the story of the Dusty he adored with honesty and compassion. David Bret's previous best-selling books include acclaimed biographies of Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, Morrissey, Mario Lanza, and Maria Callas.
Download or read book Brit Girls of the Sixties Volume Two written by David Bret and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of a British wartime spy and an Austro-Hungarian baroness, Marianne Faithfull epitomised the perfect English rose immaculate bone structure, long blonde hair, angelic features and a cut-glass accent. An icon of the Sixties, she is remembered less for the beautiful songs she performed back then than she is for infiltrating the Rolling Stones' court and becoming consort to the Prince of Pop himself, Mick Jagger. Her subsequent fall from grace made world headlines, yet in the face of the harshest adversity she dragged herself out of the mire to become one of the most respected, adored, and profoundly talented entertainers to have ever graced the world stage. A living legend, Marianne Faithfull may well be the finest and most distinguished female singer in Britain today. KATHY KIRBY: Britain's glamorous answer to Marilyn Monroe-a phenomenally talented but tetchy individual for whom there was no such thing as a bad take. Contains full UK & European 60s vinyl discographies.
Download or read book Freedom Girls written by Alexandra M. Apolloni and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This introduction positions the history of girl and young women singers in the 1960s in the context of broader histories of vocal training; ideas about voice, respectability, and expressivity; and the models of youthful femininity that were emergent in 1960s Britain. It connects this study to the emerging field of Voice Studies and provide an overview of the book's chapters"--
Download or read book Brit Girls of the Sixties Volume One Dusty Springfield Helen Shapiro written by David Bret and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of the unique style known as 'blue-eyed soul', Dusty Springfield was instrumental in introducing Motown to Britain, and for several years reigned supreme on both sides of the Atlantic. Her voice flute-like, smoky and sensual, frequently in the space of the same song was similarly unique. Over a decade after her death, she remains a show business legend yet she also remains an enigma, a completely self-fabricated, difficult yet strangely vulnerable woman who allowed few access to her complex, in turns exhuberant and neurotic world where at times there was little difference between reality and make-believe. HELEN SHAPIRO: The teenage sensation whose commercial career ended as the other Brit Girls were coming into their own, though she went on to be a fine, successful jazz-singer. Contains full 1960s UK and European vinyl discographies. Also in this series: Volume Two: Marianne Faithfull & Kathy Kirby Volume Three: Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw & Lulu
Download or read book Brit Girls of the Sixties Marianne Faithfull written by David Bret and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the life and career of pop singer Marianne Faithfull, with a short chapter on the life and career of Kathy Kirby.
Download or read book Y Y Girls of 60s French Pop written by Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yé-Yé means Yeah Yeah! and is best known as a style of '60s pop music heard in France and Québec.
Download or read book Brit Girls of the Sixties Dusty Springfield Featuring Helen Shapiro written by David Bret and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Dusty Springfield
Download or read book Sixties British Pop Outside in written by Gordon Thompson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Itchycoo Park, 1964-1970--the second volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In--explores how London songwriters, musicians, and production crews navigated the era's cultural upheavals by reimagining the pop-music envelope. Thompson explores how some British artists conjured up sophisticated hybrid forms by recombining elements of jazz, folk, blues, Indian ragas, and western classical music while others returned to the raw essentials. Encouraging these experiments, youth culture's economic power challenged the authority of their parents' generation. Based on extensive research, including vintage and original interviews, Thompson presents sixties British pop, not as lists of discrete people and events, but as an interwoven story.
Download or read book British Divas Of The 1960s Volume Two written by David Bret and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MARIANNE FAITHFULL: The most enigmatic of the Brit Girls, no less popular today than back then, whose fall from grace made world headlines, but who dragged herself out of the mire to become-and remain-one of the world's most prestigious entertainers.SANDIE SHAW: The "Barefoot Princess" and one of the decade's most alluring images-she topped the British charts three times, won Eurovision, sang with The Smiths, and while the world was still at her feet bowed out of the music scene, never to return.LULU: The wee Scottish lassie with the voice which could demolish a skyscraper-the only Brit Girl to top the US charts, she married a Bee Gee, also won Eurovision, and following a slump in her career made a spectacular return singing with the boy band, Take That.Includes full UK & European 1960s Discographies.Also in this series: British Divas Of The 1960s Volume One: Dusty Springfield, Helen Shapiro, Cilla Black & Kathy Kirby.
Download or read book Freedom Girls written by Alexandra M. Apolloni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop shows how the vocal performances of girl singers in 1960s Britain defined-and sometimes defied-ideas about what it meant to be a young woman in the 1960s British pop music scene. The singing and expressive voices of Sandie Shaw, Cilla Black, Millie Small, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Marianne Faithfull, and P.P. Arnold, reveal how vocal sound shapes access to social mobility, and consequently, access to power and musical authority. The book examines how Sandie Shaw and Cilla Black's ordinary girl personas were tied to whiteness and, in Black's case, her Liverpool origins. It shows how Dusty Springfield and Jamaican singer Millie Small engaged with the transatlantic sounds of soul and and ska, respectively, transforming ideas about musical genre, race, and gender. It reveals how attitudes about sexuality and youth in rock culture shaped the vocal performances of Lulu and Marianne Faithfull, and how P.P. Arnold has re-narrated rock history to center Black women's vocality. Freedom Girls draws on a broad array of archival sources, including music magazines, fashion and entertainment magazines produced for young women, biographies and interviews, audience research reports, and others to inform analysis of musical recordings (including such songs as "As Tears Go By," "Son of a Preacher Man," and others) and performances on television programs such as Ready Steady Go!, Shindig, and other 1960s music shows. These performances reveal the historical and contemporary connections between voice, social mobility, and musical authority, and demonstrate how singers used voice to navigate the boundaries of race, class, and gender.
Download or read book Voyaging Out written by Joyce Townsend and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating new account of the work and lives of Britain’s women artists in the twentieth century. In this revealing chronicle of a fascinating period of social change, artist Carolyn Trant examines the history of women artists in modern Britain, filling in the gaps in traditional art histories. Introducing the lives and works of a rich network of neglected women artists, Voyaging Out sets these alongside such renowned presences as Barbara Hepworth, Laura Knight, and Winifred Nicholson. In an era of radical activism and great social and political change, women forged new relationships with art and its institutions. Such change was not without its challenges, and with acerbic wit Trant delves into the gendered makeup of the avant-garde and the tyranny of artistic “isms.” In Virginia Woolf’s first novel The Voyage Out (1915) her female heroine strives toward a realization of her sense of self, asking what being a woman might mean. In the decades after women won the vote in Britain, the fortunes of women artists were shaped by war, domesticity, continued oppressions, and spirited resistance. Some succeeded in forging creative careers; others were thwarted by the odds stacked against them. Weaving devastating individual stories with spirited critique, Voyaging Out reveals this hidden history.
Download or read book She s So Fine Reflections on Whiteness Femininity Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music written by Laurie Stras and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's So Fine explores the music, reception and cultural significance of 1960s girl singers and girl groups in the US and the UK. Using approaches from the fields of musicology, women's studies, film and media studies, and cultural studies, this volume is the first interdisciplinary work to link close musical readings with rigorous cultural analysis in the treatment of artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Crystals, The Blossoms, Brenda Lee, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Tina Turner, and Marianne Faithfull. Currently available studies of 1960s girl groups/girl singers fall into one of three categories: industry-generated accounts of the music's production and sales, sociological commentaries, or omnibus chronologies/discographies. She's So Fine, by contrast, focuses on clearly defined themes via case studies of selected artists. Within this analytical rather than historically comprehensive framework, this book presents new research and original observations on the 60s girl group/girl singer phenomenon.
Download or read book Freedom Girls written by Alexandra M. Apolloni and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This introduction positions the history of girl and young women singers in the 1960s in the context of broader histories of vocal training; ideas about voice, respectability, and expressivity; and the models of youthful femininity that were emergent in 1960s Britain. It connects this study to the emerging field of Voice Studies and provide an overview of the book's chapters"--
Download or read book Leaders of the Pack written by Sean MacLeod and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s and their Influence on Popular Culture musician and music historian Sean MacLeod surveys the hundreds of girl groups that appeared not only in the United States but also in Great Britain during the early 1960s. This study corrects the neglect of their critical contribution of popular music history by exploring the social and political climate from which the girl groups emerged and their effect, in turn, on local and national music and culture. MacLeod organizes his argument around seven leading girl groups: The Shirelles, The Crystals, The Ronettes, The Marvelettes, The Vandellas, the Supremes and The Shangri-Las. These seven “sister” groups serve as the basis for a broader look at the many girl groups of the period, offering a roadmap through the work of the many stakeholder—the singers, songwriters, producers, and record labels—that the girl group phenomenon made possible. MacLeod also reviews the significant influence girl groups had on the many male bands of the 1960s, as well as their influence on the post-‘60s movements, from punk to new wave, ultimately serving as the template for the girl groups and all-girl bands that emerged in the 1980s. Finally, The Leaders of the Pack brings us to the present as MacLeod compares the original girl groups with female performers of today, drawing lines of connection and contrast between them. Leaders of the Pack is essential reading for students, scholars, and fans of 1960s music and culture. It will further interest anyone interested in women’s studies, modern American and British culture, and music history, with important forays into such topics as the Civil Rights Movement, second and third wave feminism, and post-war life.
Download or read book Why Jazz Happened written by Marc Myers and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz’s post-war styles. Rich with the voices of musicians, producers, promoters, and others on the scene during the decades following World War II, this book views jazz’s evolution through the prism of technological advances, social transformations, changes in the law, economic trends, and much more. In an absorbing narrative enlivened by the commentary of key personalities, Marc Myers describes the myriad of events and trends that affected the music's evolution, among them, the American Federation of Musicians strike in the early 1940s, changes in radio and concert-promotion, the introduction of the long-playing record, the suburbanization of Los Angeles, the Civil Rights movement, the “British invasion” and the rise of electronic instruments. This groundbreaking book deepens our appreciation of this music by identifying many of the developments outside of jazz itself that contributed most to its texture, complexity, and growth.
