Table of Contents

List of contributors
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: creativity, representation and place

Robert Strachan and Marion Leonard
1. Historical approaches to Merseybeat: delivery, affinity and diversity
Ian Inglis
2. Growing up with the Beatles
Spencer Leigh
3. From sea shanties to cosmic scousers: the city, memory and representation in Liverpool’s popular music
Robert Strachan
4. Pubs in the precinct: music making, retail developments and the characterization of urban space
Sara Cohen and Brett Lashua
5. The soul continuum: Liverpool black musicians and the UK music industry from the 1950s to the 1980s
Robert Strachan
6. Not just one of the boys: gender, representation and the historical record
Marion Leonard
7. Liverpool’s 1970s bohemia: Deaf School, Eric’s and the post-punk scene
Robert Strachan
8. Dance moves: finding a place for house music in Liverpool
Georgina Young
9. The creative process: Liverpool songwriters on songwriting
Marion Leonard

Index

About the Author

Marion Leonard is Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool and Rob Strachan Lecturer, in the School of Music at the University of Liverpool