Marcus Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcus Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcus |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1672-0278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Should They Know of England? History and Citizenship
This article argues that the traditional efforts to invest moral meaning in narratives of the national past are evident both in the government-sanctioned version of British history and the critiques of it by academic historians. These historians demonstrate that the official version of the British past glosses over past wrongs, but do not sufficiently challenge the notion that histories of a nation need be geopolitically focused or morally instru…
I say high, you say low: The Beatles and cultural hierarchies in 1960s and 1970s Britain
The debate over the cultural value of the Beatles was as vehement as it was significant in 1960s and early 1970s Britain. Lennon and McCartney's early compositions received some early critical plaudits,Sgt. Peppersought to blur distinctions between high and low culture and the band members' side projects forged links with the avant garde. To accept the Beatles as artists, however, required critics to rethink how art was created, disseminated and …
Permissiveness on Trial: Sex, Drugs, Rock, the Rolling Stones, and the Sixties Counterculture
The Redlands Affair, which involved drug-taking by countercultural musicians, was the defining scandal of Britain's “Summer of Love”. It catalyzed a debate about the nature and extent of the “permissive society” that continues to this day. This article analyzes the diverse and extensive sources generated by the Affair's principal participants - the Rolling Stones, the press, the courts, politicians, and the counterculture - to show how they clash…
The Beatles' Politics
Research Highlights and Abstract This article argues that the Beatles did much to legitimise pop as a means of political expression, to devise organisational structures to support such political activity and to politicise those who produced and consumed pop music. critiques the Beatles' political motives, attitudes, techniques and accomplishments. explains why the Beatles' political development was a process of trial and error in which they sough…
The Age of the Beatles’: Parliament and Popular Music in the 1960s
This article examines how the unprecedented popularity and symbolic power of the Beatles forced politicians in Britain to attend to popular music in the 1960s. It argues that parliamentarians were ill-equipped to comprehend not only the Beatles but also the new social forces with which they were associated. They reacted with a mixture of jocularity, partisan point-scoring and earnest debates over art, class, youth and the state. Their general bew…
The fall of the English gentleman: The National Character in Decline, c.1918-1970
The figure of the gentleman and his allied qualities of amateurism, sportsmanship and self-control dominated public discussions of Englishness in the half century after the Great War. From 1918 to the mid nineteen-fifties, gentlemanliness enjoyed strong, although by no means unanimous, support among commentators on national character. Subsequently, however, the reputation of the gentleman suffered irreparable damage at the hands of a post-war gen…
Pride and Prejudice: West Indian Men in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Of all the immigrants arriving in Britain in the middle of the twentieth century, none attracted as much attention from whites as West Indian men. This was initially explicable by their being the first nonwhites to settle in large numbers. Around ten thousand arrived during the Second World War (more than Britain's entire prewar black population) and, although some two-thirds of them were hurriedly repatriated after 1945, returning ex-servicemen …
The Pornography of Permissiveness: Men's Sexuality and Women's Emancipation in Mid Twentieth-Century Britain
Closed access. This article was published in the History Workshop Journal [Oxford University Press © History Workshop Journal] and the definitive version is available at:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1999.47.99
Pride and Prejudice: West Indian Men in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Of all the immigrants arriving in Britain in the middle of the twentieth century, none attracted as much attention from whites as West Indian men. This was initially explicable by their being the first nonwhites to settle in large numbers. Around ten thousand arrived during the Second World War (more than Britain's entire prewar black population) and, although some two-thirds of them were hurriedly repatriated after 1945, returning ex-servicemen …
The fall of the English gentleman: The National Character in Decline, c.1918-1970
The figure of the gentleman and his allied qualities of amateurism, sportsmanship and self-control dominated public discussions of Englishness in the half century after the Great War. From 1918 to the mid nineteen-fifties, gentlemanliness enjoyed strong, although by no means unanimous, support among commentators on national character. Subsequently, however, the reputation of the gentleman suffered irreparable damage at the hands of a post-war gen…
Permissiveness on Trial: Sex, Drugs, Rock, the Rolling Stones, and the Sixties Counterculture
The Redlands Affair, which involved drug-taking by countercultural musicians, was the defining scandal of Britain's “Summer of Love”. It catalyzed a debate about the nature and extent of the “permissive society” that continues to this day. This article analyzes the diverse and extensive sources generated by the Affair's principal participants - the Rolling Stones, the press, the courts, politicians, and the counterculture - to show how they clash…
The Age of the Beatles’: Parliament and Popular Music in the 1960s
This article examines how the unprecedented popularity and symbolic power of the Beatles forced politicians in Britain to attend to popular music in the 1960s. It argues that parliamentarians were ill-equipped to comprehend not only the Beatles but also the new social forces with which they were associated. They reacted with a mixture of jocularity, partisan point-scoring and earnest debates over art, class, youth and the state. Their general bew…
The Pornography of Permissiveness: Men's Sexuality and Women's Emancipation in Mid Twentieth-Century Britain
Closed access. This article was published in the History Workshop Journal [Oxford University Press © History Workshop Journal] and the definitive version is available at:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1999.47.99
The Pornography of Permissiveness: Men's Sexuality and Women's Emancipation in Mid Twentieth-Century Britain
Closed access. This article was published in the History Workshop Journal [Oxford University Press © History Workshop Journal] and the definitive version is available at:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1999.47.99
Pride and Prejudice: West Indian Men in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Of all the immigrants arriving in Britain in the middle of the twentieth century, none attracted as much attention from whites as West Indian men. This was initially explicable by their being the first nonwhites to settle in large numbers. Around ten thousand arrived during the Second World War (more than Britain's entire prewar black population) and, although some two-thirds of them were hurriedly repatriated after 1945, returning ex-servicemen …
The fall of the English gentleman: The National Character in Decline, c.1918-1970
The figure of the gentleman and his allied qualities of amateurism, sportsmanship and self-control dominated public discussions of Englishness in the half century after the Great War. From 1918 to the mid nineteen-fifties, gentlemanliness enjoyed strong, although by no means unanimous, support among commentators on national character. Subsequently, however, the reputation of the gentleman suffered irreparable damage at the hands of a post-war gen…
The Beatles' Politics
Research Highlights and Abstract This article argues that the Beatles did much to legitimise pop as a means of political expression, to devise organisational structures to support such political activity and to politicise those who produced and consumed pop music. critiques the Beatles' political motives, attitudes, techniques and accomplishments. explains why the Beatles' political development was a process of trial and error in which they sough…
The Age of the Beatles’: Parliament and Popular Music in the 1960s
This article examines how the unprecedented popularity and symbolic power of the Beatles forced politicians in Britain to attend to popular music in the 1960s. It argues that parliamentarians were ill-equipped to comprehend not only the Beatles but also the new social forces with which they were associated. They reacted with a mixture of jocularity, partisan point-scoring and earnest debates over art, class, youth and the state. Their general bew…
Permissiveness on Trial: Sex, Drugs, Rock, the Rolling Stones, and the Sixties Counterculture
The Redlands Affair, which involved drug-taking by countercultural musicians, was the defining scandal of Britain's “Summer of Love”. It catalyzed a debate about the nature and extent of the “permissive society” that continues to this day. This article analyzes the diverse and extensive sources generated by the Affair's principal participants - the Rolling Stones, the press, the courts, politicians, and the counterculture - to show how they clash…
I say high, you say low: The Beatles and cultural hierarchies in 1960s and 1970s Britain
The debate over the cultural value of the Beatles was as vehement as it was significant in 1960s and early 1970s Britain. Lennon and McCartney's early compositions received some early critical plaudits,Sgt. Peppersought to blur distinctions between high and low culture and the band members' side projects forged links with the avant garde. To accept the Beatles as artists, however, required critics to rethink how art was created, disseminated and …
What Should They Know of England? History and Citizenship
This article argues that the traditional efforts to invest moral meaning in narratives of the national past are evident both in the government-sanctioned version of British history and the critiques of it by academic historians. These historians demonstrate that the official version of the British past glosses over past wrongs, but do not sufficiently challenge the notion that histories of a nation need be geopolitically focused or morally instru…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)