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Popular Music and the Myths of Madness Nicola Spelman New edition
Popular Music and the Myths of Madness
Nicola Spelman
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.
202 pages, includes 17 musical examples
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 11, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9781409418313 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 206 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 13 mm · 521 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Burns, Professor Lori |
| Series Editor | Hawkins, Professor Stan |
| Series Editor | Scott, Professor Derek B. |