Popular Music and the Myths of Madness

Nicola Spelman

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012

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Identifies links between the anti-psychiatry movement and representations of madness in popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, analysing the various ways in which ideas critical of institutional psychiatry are embodied both verbally and musically in specific songs by David Bowie, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, the Beatles, and Elton John.

ISBN-13
9781409418313
ISBN-10
1409418316
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year
2012
Publication date
2012-05-11
Pages
206
Dimensions
234x156x
Weight
521