[Commlist] New book: Red Days: Popular Music & the English Counterculture 1965-1975

Now available for direct ordering and/or free download…

Red Days: Popular Music & the English Counterculture 1965-1975
John Roberts

Challenges the conventional narratives about English popular music and 
the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s

The passion, intensity and complexity of the popular music produced in 
England between 1965-75 is the work of an extraordinary generation of 
working class and lower middle class men and women (in alliance with a 
handful of middle-class men and women) who saw in the new music the 
remaking of something bigger than themselves, or more precisely, 
something bigger than themselves that they could guide and shape and 
call their own. In this the ‘use-values’ of popular musicunderwent an 
unprecedented expansion and diversity during this period. Red Days 
presents how music and action, music and discourse, experienced a 
profound re-functioning as definitions of the popular unmoored 
themselves from the condescending judgements of post-1950s high culture 
and the sentiment of the old popular culture and the musicologically 
conformist rock ‘n’ roll seeking to displace it. The remaking of the 
popular between 1965-1975, accordingly, is more than a revision of 
popular taste, it is, rather, the demolition of old cultural allegiances 
and habits, as forces inside and outside of music shattered the 
assumption of popular music as the home for passive adolescent 
identifications.


Bio: John Roberts is Professor of Art & Aesthetics at the University of 
Wolverhampton. He is the author of a number of books, including, The 
Necessity of Errors (2010), Photography and Its Violations (2014), 
Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde (2015), Thoughts on an Index Not 
Freely Given (2016) and The Reasoning of Unreason: Universalism, 
Capitalism and Disenlightenment (2018)

PDF available freely online: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=981

Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions now for 
the special price of £10.

Release to the book trade June 2020

Released by Minor Compositions, Colchester / Brooklyn / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing 
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of 
everyday life.

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