SOLD-OUT - Mersey Beat and the Early Beatles
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Rock
SOLD-OUT - Mersey Beat and the Early Beatles
In Britain too, rock and roll meant far more than just music and dance – from the outset it was associated with youthful rebellion, a revolution in lifestyle, and with the emerging youth subcultures. One cradle of the Brit beat was a north-western port city, Liverpool, where the ’Mersey sound’ had already begun to take shape at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. On 24 October 1962, however, a new era began, the Beatles' first single, Love Me Do, appeared in the UK charts.
Rock and roll is, somewhat simplistically, the result of a particular cultural-historical fusion: that of when the musical traditions of Black slaves brought over from Africa met those of white settlers who had emigrated from Europe to the new world, the Americas. Moreover, all this took place in a radically transforming society, following technological progress and its associated industrialisation and urbanisation. In the second season of this series, we look at the social, cultural and musical events of the period from Elvis to the twilight of the rock and roll era in the Fifties.
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