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The author explores the role of British narratives of masculinity and power in the postwar era that contributed to the creation of a British blues network of young, white, mostly middle-class British men who consumed and appropriated African American blues. He describes how and why they formed a social network in the late 1950s and early 1960s and emulated the blues by forming their own bands, and how they used the tropes, vocabulary, and mythology of the blues to create a new form of pop music. He focuses on Jeff Beck, Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, Ray Davies, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Keith Richards, Rod Stewart, Pete Townshend, and Steve Winwood, describing the political, social, and cultural context; the processes of transmission and reception of American blues and R&B; why the blues appealed to young British men; how British enthusiasts formed homosocial bonds based on their consumption of blues music and how this helped transform the British blues into British blues-rock; and key musical developments. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
