Let’S Spend the Night Together: Sex, Pop Music and British Youth Culture, 1950s–80s

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Let’S Spend the Night Together

Sex, Pop Music and British Youth Culture, 1950s–80s

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English

Manchester University Press
01 November 2023

Rock & Pop music; British & Irish history; Social & cultural history; Oral history

Series: Subcultures and Social Change

Let's spend the night together 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.

Drawing 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.

Edited by: Subcultures Network
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 645g
ISBN: 9781526159984
ISBN 10: 1526159988
Series: Subcultures and Social Change
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Subcultures Network is the interdisciplinary network for the study of subcultures, popular music and social change, hosted by the University of Reading.

Reviews for Let’S Spend the Night Together: Sex, Pop Music and British Youth Culture, 1950s–80s

'This is a probing book and easy to read for anyone with even a cursory knowledge of British pop culture and its history over the past seventy-five years... it's worth picking up, as noted, by academics looking to teach the subject, or by the average university-educated reader.' Journal of British Studies -- .