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Artistic and commercial reasons have combined to support the commonplace that popular music was primarily a recorded music. For both progressive rock bands and teenybop groups the studio was the creative source, while records themselves yielded greater financial rewards than live performances. The latter were places in which to reproduce the recorded sound.
Originally published in Dave Laing, One Chord Wonders, Open University Press, 1985.
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See Sean Cubitt, ‘Maybellene: Meaning and the Listening Subject’, in R. Middleton and D. Horn (eds), Popular Music A Yearbook: Vol. 4 Performers & Audiences, Cambridge University Press, 1984, p. 211.
P. Tagg, Fernando the Flude, 1981, p. 14, University of Gothenberg Press, 1971.
R. Barthes, Image-Music-Text, London, Fontana, 1977, p. 182.
For an explanation of these terms, see Introduction, D. Laing, One Chord Wonders, Open University Press, 1985, p. x.
R. Hoggart, Uses of Literacy, Penguin, 1957, p. 102.
S. Frith, Sound Effects, Constable, 1981, p. 161.
Tom Carson, ‘Rocket to Russia’, in G. Marcus (ed.), Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island, New York, 1979, p. 108.
C. Gillett, The Sound of the City, Souvenir Press, 1970, p. 30.
See the articles by Alan Beckett and Richard Merton in New Life Review 47, January-February 1968.
See, e.g., Richard Merton in New Left Review, 47, January-February 1968, and D. Laing, 1969, p. 144.
See, e.g., Susan Hiwatt, ‘Cock Rock’, in J. Eisen (ed.), Twenty Minute Fabdangos and Forever Changes, New York, 1971, pp. 141–7.
R. Barthes, The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies, New York, Hill & Wang, 1979, p. 119.
B. Copper, A Song for Every Season, London, 1975, p. 275.
For a stimulating and related analysis of this song, see Greil Marcus, ‘Anarchy in the U.K.’, in J. Miller (ed.), The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll, New York, 1980, pp. 460–1.
See P. Oliver, The Meaning of the Blues, New York, 1963, pp. 151–2.
The lyrics of these songs can be found in A. X. Nicholas (ed.), The Poetry of Soul, New York, 1971, pp. 55 and 61.
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Laing, D. (1986). The Grain of Punk: An Analysis of the Lyrics. In: McRobbie, A. (eds) Zoot Suits and Second-Hand Dresses. Youth Questions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19999-0_4
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