By Carey Fleiner
The Kinks: A completely English Phenomenon examines the song and function of this quintessentially English band and indicates how features of daily life comparable to paintings, play, deciding to buy a home, riding a vehicle, consuming tea, getting inebriated, and getting laid, affected and formed their artistic output. via an research in their tune, lyrics, and photo, Carey Fleiner indicates how the Kinks mirrored either the standard and the absurd, occasionally confronting themes with anger and infrequently with self-deprecating humor. The Kinks follows the band’s trajectory kind of chronologically and explores topics resembling starting to be up in post-war Britain, the packaging and exploitation of the “British Invasion” bands, satire and self-consciousness, sexuality and gender-bending, social and political pessimism, the comforts of kin, and the results of status and fandom.
Fleiner’s research into the impacts on and influence of the Kinks’ tune takes readers on an enticing experience during the musical tradition of the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, revealing how the Kinks created an indisputable sound and picture that also draws new fans today.
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