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The Kinks : songs of the semi-detached / Mark Doyle.

by Doyle, Mark, 1977- author.

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London : Reaktion Books, 2020.

Kinks (Musical group)

Rock musicians -- England -- Biography.

Rock music -- England -- History and criticism.

9781789142303 (paperback)

178914230X (paperback)

248 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

"Of all the great British rock bands to emerge from the 1960s, none had a stronger sense of place than the Kinks. Often described as the archetypal English band, they were above all a quintessentially working-class band with a deep attachment to London. Mark Doyle examines the relationship between the Kinks and their city, from their early songs of teenage rebellion to their later album-length works of social criticism. He finds fascinating and sometimes surprising connections with figures as diverse as Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, and the Covent Garden Community Association. More than just a book about a band, The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-detached is about a social class undergoing a series of profound changes, and about a group of young men who found a way to describe, lament, and occasionally even celebrate those changes through song"--Publisher.

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