Kiszely, P (2020) Television: Capturing Performance. In: Barber, S and Peniston-Bird, CM, (eds.) Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts: Space, Time and Performance. The Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources . Routledge , London, UK , pp. 131-146. ISBN 9780815364801
Abstract
The ‘Mick Jagger’ episode of the World in Action current affairs series offers an on-the-spot Establishment response to a pop culture cause célèbre: the 1967 drug trials involving various members of the Rolling Stones. As such, it is something of a trailblazer in British broadcasting history. That status alone makes it interesting. What makes the programme important, however, is the combination of its participants. This chapter considers ‘Mick Jagger’ in textual and contextual terms, and it seeks to answer the following questions: How is the televised World in Action debate useful as an historical document? What does it reveal about the nature of pop culture’s challenge to the British class/social hierarchy? Drawing on broad traditions of cultural historiography, the chapter builds to a close examination of the ‘Mick Jagger’ document itself. The young Jagger is powerfully performative; he is a counter-culture icon, the personification of 1960s freedom. Yet his appreciation of public responsibility is by no means shallow. This nuance points to a further tension: the social role of television versus the pop culture content of much of its programming. The chapter arrives at a set of conclusions via a constructionist analysis that deals in testimony and evidence, the latter triangulating examples of the former.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 the Author(s). This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledgein Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts: Space, Time and Performance on May 3, 2020, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9780815364801. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2019 15:18 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2024 16:51 |
Published Version: | https://www.routledge.com/9780815364801 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Series Name: | The Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources |
Identification Number: | 10.4324/9781351106573 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:151679 |