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Title CANTERBURY SOUND IN POPULAR MUSIC : scene, identity and myth
Published LONDON : EMERALD Group PUBL, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Emerald studies in popular music and place
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's 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
Notes Print version record
Subject 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
Jazz
Manners and customs
Popular music
Progressive rock music
Psychedelic rock music
SUBJECT Canterbury (England) -- History -- 20th century
Canterbury (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Subject England -- Canterbury
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781787694910
1787694917
9781787694897
1787694895