A Social History of Early Rock 'n' Roll in Germany : Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69

back into the social, spatial, and musical contexts that shaped them and their generation. This book reveals that transnational encounters between musicians, fans, entrepreneurs and businessmen in St. Pauli produced a musical style that provided emotional and physical liberation and challenged powerful forces of conservatism and conformity with effects that transformed the world for decades to come. [Publisher's Text]

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