Quadrophenia and Mod(ern) Culture (Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music)

This collection explores the centrality of The Who’s classic album, and Franc Roddam’s cult classic film of adolescent life, __Quadrophenia__ to the recent cultural history of Britain, to British subcultural studies, and to a continuing fascination with Mod style and culture. The interdisciplinary chapters collected here set the album and film amongst critical contexts including gender and sexuality studies, class analysis, and the film and album’s urban geographies, seeing __Quadrophenia__ as a transatlantic phenomenon and as a perennial adolescent story. Contributors view Quadrophenia through a variety of lenses, including the Who’s history and reception, the 1970s English political and social landscape, the adolescent novel of development (the __bildungsroman__), the perception of the film through the eyes of Mods and Mod revivalists, 1970s socialist politics, punk, glam, sharp suits, scooters and the Brighton train, arguing for the continuing richness of __Quadrophenia’s depiction of the adolescent dilemma. The volume includes new interviews with Franc Roddam, director of Quadrophenia, and the photographer Ethan Russell, who took the photos for the album’s famous photo booklet.__ Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction: Dressed Right for a Beach Fight (Pamela Thurschwell)....Pages 1-9 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 Brighton Rocked: Mods, Rockers, and Social Change During the Early 1960s (Bill Osgerby)....Pages 13-34 “Who (the Fuck) Are You?”: Out with the In-Crowd in Quadrophenia (Ben Winsworth)....Pages 35-50 Discovering the Who’s Mod Past: The American Reception of Quadrophenia (Christine Feldman-Barrett)....Pages 51-66 Heatwave: Mod, Cultural Studies, and the Counterculture (Sam Cooper)....Pages 67-81 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 Class, Youth, and Dirty Jobs: The Working-Class and Post-War Britain in Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia (Keith Gildart)....Pages 85-118 Quad to Run: The Crucible of Identity as Represented in Quadrophenia and Born to Run (Suzanne Coker)....Pages 119-129 Taking the 5:15: Mods, Social Mobility, and the Brighton Train (Tom F. Wright)....Pages 131-147 Front Matter ....Pages 149-149 “What are You Gonna Do Tonight?” “Wait for a Phone Call I Suppose”: Girls, Mod Subculture, and Reactions to the Film Quadrophenia (Rosalind Watkiss Singleton)....Pages 151-172 “Poofs Wear Lacquer, Don’t They, Eh?”: Quadrophenia and the Queerness of Mod Culture (Peter Hughes Jachimiak)....Pages 173-197 The Drowning Machine: The Sea and the Scooter in Quadrophenia (Brian Baker)....Pages 199-216 “You Were Under the Impression, that When You Were Walking Forwards, that You’d End up Further Onwards, but Things Ain’t Quite that Simple”: Time Travelling and Quadrophenia’s Segues (Pamela Thurschwell)....Pages 217-234 Interview with Franc Roddam (Pamela Thurschwell)....Pages 235-249 Interview with Ethan Russell (Pamela Thurschwell, Keith Gildart)....Pages 251-260 Back Matter ....Pages 263-268