The Canterbury Sound in Popular Music
EMERALD STUDIES IN POPULAR MUSIC AND PLACE
Series Editors:
Brett Lashua, University College London, UK
Stephen Wagg, De Montfort University, UK
Series Description:
Studies of the relations between popular music and place offer rich conceptual and empirical terrain. This interdisciplinary book series publishes research on popular music and its geo-spatial relations by scholars working in the wider disciplines and subject fields of popular music studies, cultural geography, cultural studies, sociology, urban studies, youth studies, leisure studies, and beyond.
Titles in the series focus not only on specific cities, but also rural and suburban places, alternative or marginal spaces, online spaces, and other music geographies, for example, histories of vanished or erased places, music tourist attractions, thanatological spaces (e.g., cemeteries and other memorializations for deceased musicians), music museums, and so on. The series promotes work by scholars interested in popular music, place and space, cultural identities, globalisation, history, and cultural heritage. In turn, the book series offers a critical space for scholars to theorise about the changing place of popular music where it is encountered, enjoyed, and contested.
Previously published titles in the series
Popular Music, Popular Myth and Cultural Heritage in Cleveland Brett Lashua
The Canterbury Sound in Popular Music: Scene, Identity and Myth
EDITED BY
ASYA DRAGANOVA, SHANE BLACKMAN AND ANDY BENNETT
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To Canterbury
Contents
List of Figures
About the Authors
Trying to Remember the Good Stuff: An Extended Foreword
Asya Draganova with Robert Wyattxix
Acknowledgements
Asya Draganova, Shane Blackman and Andy Bennett
Andy Bennett
Brian Hopper
Murray Smith
Dave Sinclair
Jack Hues
Rick Chafen
Richard Dove
Marcus ODair
David Woolgar
Billie Bottle
Neil Saunders
Curated by Asya Draganova and Shane Blackman
Aymeric Leroy
Phil Howitt
Alan Stumpenhuson-Payne
Mengyao Jiang
Sam Bailey
Adam Brodigan
Shane Blackman and Asya Draganova
Asya Draganova, Shane Blackman and Andy Bennett
Index
List of Figures
Poster for The Canterbury Sound: Place, Music and Myth 2017 Event Which Led to the Publication of this Book
Richard John Sinclair at a running race
Valentine Sinclairs Antique Shop in Canterbury
Richard Frederick Sinclair, my grandfather
Poster for a show where both my grandfather - Dick Sinclair, and my grandmother - Gertie Greenman, performed
My Grandmother
Me and My Elder Brother on Grandmas Lawn
My Grandfather with Great War Soldiers Billeted at the Kings Head, Canterbury
One of the letters sent to my Grandfather at the Kings Headfrom Lord Astor
Motorbike Family: Along the Seafront in Tankerton, Whitstable, my Father and Sister Joan, and Dick Sinclair, Early 1930s
My Aunt Girlie
St Dunstans Skiffle Group Formed by the Choir. Myself 3rd from left, brother John 4th from right back row
St Dunstans Choir. Myself 2nd from right, John 3rd from right
My Brother John Sinclair at the Canterbury Cathedral Organ
Spencer Payne, head of music, the choir, and me (far right)
The Hoppers house Tanglewood, a central place for the Canterbury Sound
Hammond A100 Organ-Bill of Sale
St Elmo, Stodmarsh Rd 1969
Brinsmead Piano Now
Recording in the Night at the Gulbenkian Theatre 1976
Taking a Break from Rehearsals, Working with Neil Merryweather, a US Recording Artist
Billboard LIVE Tokyo 12th May 2015 with Japanese band Clammbon
The Farewell Party for Me and My Wife Mika at the Bar Matching Mole in Kyoto 2016
Moments from My Music Career in Japan
Moments from My Music Career in Japan
Moments from My Music Career in Japan
Moments from My Music Career in Japan
An Original Drawing by Daevid Allen for Rick Chafen
A box set of Facelifts, publishied 19891998.
Pete Frames Canterbury Sound family tree called Soft Machinery. It was originally published as part of a booklet accompanying Triple Echo, a Soft Machine compilation released in 1977.
About the Authors
Sam Bailey holds a PhD and is an improvising pianist, composer, teacher, promotercurator, and founderdirector of the experimental music and poetry charity Free Range (http://freerangecanterbury.org/). His work as a musician includes: playing as a soloist with choir and orchestra in Canterbury Cathedral, as a soloist and conductor with local orchestras, classical recitals, cabaret punk bands, salsa bands, afro-beat bands, jazz bands, folk bands, organising two Summer of Jazz festivals and the Listen and Play Jazz Jam series, co-founding Jack Hues and the Quartet, and a year-long project called Piano in the Woods, a three-year project called Eating Sound (in which food was used as a way of connecting with experimental music). He currently teaches at Canterbury Christ Church University, Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, and privately alongside running Free Range and working freelance as a musician and composer.
Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University. He has written and edited numerous books including