Michael Brocken is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music Studies in the School of Music at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

’Brocken offers a palpable sense of the cultural and geographical landscape of the city across five decades, and shows that popular music scenes are always more than the sum of their historical accounts as laid out in the annals of halls of fame and museums dedicated to star performers ... (he) ably uncovers the complexities and heterogeneous nature of the musical worlds he describes... The success of Other Voices lies in Brocken's ability to research and present these histories, discourses and cultural spaces in such a rich and detailed way. It is an important contribution to the study and understanding of popular music.’ Times Higher Education 'Other Voices is a valuable addition to the academic literature on popular music history. Its rich and detailed analyses of Liverpool's varied music scenes across five decades highlights the limitations of viewing such histories in a linear, reductive fashion.' Popular Music

• General Editor’s Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Looking back, not through – an overview: ‘Beatlesology’ and historicism; Chapter 2 Antediluvian images? Popular music and parochial space in inter-war Liverpool; Chapter 3 Jazz, the Cavern, and skiffle; Chapter 4 Oral histories, public and private spaces; the partially-hidden histories of Joe Flannery and Gardner Road, 1961-62; Chapter 5 I like your hat – country music and Liverpool; Chapter 6 Some Other Guys – R&B in Liverpool; Chapter 7 ‘Mist over the Mersey’ – folk scenes on Merseyside; Chapter 8 Cabaret – reality amid the fake; Chapter 9 Taste-makers, reception, word-of-mouth; Epilogue;

Michael Brocken is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music Studies in the School of Music at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

’Brocken offers a palpable sense of the cultural and geographical landscape of the city across five decades, and shows that popular music scenes are always more than the sum of their historical accounts as laid out in the annals of halls of fame and museums dedicated to star performers ... (he) ably uncovers the complexities and heterogeneous nature of the musical worlds he describes... The success of Other Voices lies in Brocken's ability to research and present these histories, discourses and cultural spaces in such a rich and detailed way. It is an important contribution to the study and understanding of popular music.’ Times Higher Education 'Other Voices is a valuable addition to the academic literature on popular music history. Its rich and detailed analyses of Liverpool's varied music scenes across five decades highlights the limitations of viewing such histories in a linear, reductive fashion.' Popular Music

• General Editor’s Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Looking back, not through – an overview: ‘Beatlesology’ and historicism; Chapter 2 Antediluvian images? Popular music and parochial space in inter-war Liverpool; Chapter 3 Jazz, the Cavern, and skiffle; Chapter 4 Oral histories, public and private spaces; the partially-hidden histories of Joe Flannery and Gardner Road, 1961-62; Chapter 5 I like your hat – country music and Liverpool; Chapter 6 Some Other Guys – R&B in Liverpool; Chapter 7 ‘Mist over the Mersey’ – folk scenes on Merseyside; Chapter 8 Cabaret – reality amid the fake; Chapter 9 Taste-makers, reception, word-of-mouth; Epilogue;

Michael Brocken is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music Studies in the School of Music at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

’Brocken offers a palpable sense of the cultural and geographical landscape of the city across five decades, and shows that popular music scenes are always more than the sum of their historical accounts as laid out in the annals of halls of fame and museums dedicated to star performers ... (he) ably uncovers the complexities and heterogeneous nature of the musical worlds he describes... The success of Other Voices lies in Brocken's ability to research and present these histories, discourses and cultural spaces in such a rich and detailed way. It is an important contribution to the study and understanding of popular music.’ Times Higher Education 'Other Voices is a valuable addition to the academic literature on popular music history. Its rich and detailed analyses of Liverpool's varied music scenes across five decades highlights the limitations of viewing such histories in a linear, reductive fashion.' Popular Music

• General Editor’s Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Looking back, not through – an overview: ‘Beatlesology’ and historicism; Chapter 2 Antediluvian images? Popular music and parochial space in inter-war Liverpool; Chapter 3 Jazz, the Cavern, and skiffle; Chapter 4 Oral histories, public and private spaces; the partially-hidden histories of Joe Flannery and Gardner Road, 1961-62; Chapter 5 I like your hat – country music and Liverpool; Chapter 6 Some Other Guys – R&B in Liverpool; Chapter 7 ‘Mist over the Mersey’ – folk scenes on Merseyside; Chapter 8 Cabaret – reality amid the fake; Chapter 9 Taste-makers, reception, word-of-mouth; Epilogue;