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Songs from the bell jar: autonomy and resistance in the music of The Bangles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Peter Mercer-Taylor
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The two passages that follow appeared within a few weeks of each other in 1963. At a glance they have little to do with one another:

Between them The Beatles adopt a do-it-yourself approach from the very beginning. They write their own lyrics, design and eventually build their own instrumental backdrops and work out their own vocal arrangements. Their music is wild, pungent, hard-hitting, uninhibited…and personal. The do-it-yourself angle ensures complete originality at all stages of the production. (Barrow 1963)

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Popular Music , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , May 1998 , pp. 187 - 204
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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