Crippled with nerves
Popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4304653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graham Mckay (0000-0002-7770-0502, University of Salford, corresponding author), George Mckay |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341-365 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143009990109 |
| OpenAlex | W1981518366 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article looks at a remarkable cluster of popular musicians who contracted and survived poliomyelitis ('infantile paralysis') epidemics through the twentieth century, and ways in which they managed and, to varying extents, explored their polio-related impairments and experiences in their music. Drawing on medical history and disability studies, it focuses largely on the pop and rock generation of polio survivors - the children and young people from the 1940s and 1950s who were among the last to contract the disease prior to the successful introduction of mass vaccination programmes (in the West). These include Neil Young, Steve Harley, Joni Mitchell, and Israel Vibration. The article then looks in detail at the work of Ian Dury, who was for a while the highest profile visibly physically disabled pop artist in Britain, and who produced a compelling body of works exploring the experiences of disability
Paralysis · Poliomyelitis · Psychiatry · Work (physics · Engineering · History · Medicine · Medicine and Dermatology Studies History · Musicians’ Health and Performance · Psychology · Whipple's Disease and Interleukins · Pediatrics
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |