{"product_id":"let-s-spend-the-night-together-sex-pop-music-and-british-youth-culture-1950s-80s-9781526159984","title":"Let’S Spend the Night Together: Sex, Pop Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet’s spend the night together\u003c\/i\u003e explores how sex and sexuality provided essential elements of British youth culture in the 1950s through to the 1980s. It shows how the underlying sexual charge of rock ‘n’roll – and pop music more generally – was integral to the broader challenge embodied in the youth cultures that developed after World War Two. As teenage hormones rushed to move to the music and take advantage of the spaces opening up through consumption, education and employment, so the boundaries of British morality and cultural propriety were tested and often transgressed. Be it the assertive masculinity of the teds or the lustful longings of the teeny-bopper, the gender-bending of glam or the subterranean allure of an underground club\/disco, the free love of the 1960s or the punk provocations in the 1970s, sex was forever to the fore and, more often than not, underpinned the moral panics that fitfully followed any cultural shift in youthful style and behaviour. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing from scholarship across a range of disciplines, the Subcultures Network explore how sex and sexuality were experienced, presented, conferred, responded to and understood within the context of youth culture, popular music and social change in the period between World War Two and the advent of AIDS. The essays locate sex, music and youth culture in the context of post-war Britain: with a widening and ever-more prevalent media; amidst the loosening bonds of censorship; in a society shaped by changing patterns of consumption and the emergence of the ‘teenager’; existing, as Jeff Nuttall famously argued, under the shadow of the (nuclear) bomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Let’s spend the night together: sex, pop music and British youth culture, 1950s–80s - \u003ci\u003eMatthew Worley, Keith Gildart, Anna Gough-Yates, Sian Lincoln, Bill Osgerby, Lucy Robinson, John Street, Pete Webb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.      Where were you? UK chart pop and the commodification of the teenage libido, 1952–63 - \u003ci\u003eTom Hennessy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2.      The Jerry Lee Lewis scandal, the popular press and the moral standing of rock ‘n’ roll  in late 1950s Britain - \u003ci\u003eGillian A.M. Mitchell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3.      ‘I’m different; I’m tough; I fuck’: attitudes towards young men, sex and masculinity in Nik Cohn’s \u003ci\u003eAwopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: Pop from the Beginning\u003c\/i\u003e (1969) - \u003ci\u003ePatrick Glen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4.      ‘We are no longer certain, any of us, what is “right” and what is “wrong”’: \u003ci\u003eHoney, Petticoat,\u003c\/i\u003e and the construction of young women’s sexuality in 1960s Britain - \u003ci\u003eSarah Kenny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5.      Lovers’ lanes and haystacks: rural spaces, girls’ experiences of courtship and sexual intimacy in post-war England - \u003ci\u003eSian Edwards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6.      Queering modernism: social, sartorial and spatial intersections between mod and gay (sub-) culture, 1957–67 - \u003ci\u003eShaun Cole and Paul Sweetman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7.      ‘You just let your hair down’: lesbian parties and clubs in the 1960s and early 1970s - \u003ci\u003eAlison Oram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8.      Singing Elton’s song: queer sexualities and youth cultures in England and Wales, 1967–85 - \u003ci\u003eDaryl Leeworthy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9.      ‘Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out’: \u003ci\u003eBlowup\u003c\/i\u003e (1966) and the free hedonism(s) of Swinging London - \u003ci\u003eMarlie Centawer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10.  ‘Everything gets boring after a time’: \u003ci\u003eDeep End\u003c\/i\u003e and swinging sex - \u003ci\u003eDavid Wilkinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11.  Run the track, but no bother chat slack: overstanding the relationship between slackness and culture within the reggae dancehall, 1960s–80s - \u003ci\u003eWilliam ‘Lez’ Henry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12.  ‘This could be a night to remember’: authenticity, historicising and the silencing of sexual experience in the northern soul scene - \u003ci\u003eSarah Raine and Caitlin Shentall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13.  ‘Mummy … what is a Sex Pistol?’: SEX, sex and British punk in the 1970s - \u003ci\u003eMatthew Worley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14.  The ‘style terrorism’ of Siouxsie Sioux: femininity, early goth aesthetics and BDSM fashion - \u003ci\u003eClaire Nally\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15.  Coming of age Asian and Muslim in post-punk West Yorkshire - \u003ci\u003eNabeel Zuberi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16.  ‘I’m your man’: heartthrobs and banter in \u003ci\u003eSmash Hits - \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHannah Charnock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041024213335,"sku":"9781526159984","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526159984.jpg?v=1750948645","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/let-s-spend-the-night-together-sex-pop-music-and-british-youth-culture-1950s-80s-9781526159984","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}