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Title: The Shangri-Las’ Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las
Condition: New
Author: Ada Wolin
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1501331744
EAN: 9781501331749
ISBN: 9781501331749
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Release Date: 04/04/2019
Description: Of the many girl-groups that came out of the 1960s, none is more idiosyncratic and influential than the Shangri-Las. They were together only five years, but within that time they subverted pop standards and foreshadowed a generation of tough women in music. Critically, they are not lauded in the way of the Ronettes, and they are certainly not a household name like the Supremes. They were a little too low-brow with an uncouth flair for theatrics that has placed them just left of the girl-group canon.This book examines the still-elusive validation of 1960s girl-groups as a whole, but also paradoxically aims to free the Shangri-Las from that category, viewing them instead with the sort of individuality traditionally afforded to rock groups. They were somehow able to challenge the status quo under the guise of sticky-sweet pop, a feat not many pop groups can achieve, but which they do fleetingly but not insubstantially in Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 165mm
Item Length: 121mm
Item Weight: 131g
Book Series: 33 1/3
Release Year: 2019

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