Ray Davies
Subtitle: not like everybody else
By: Thomas M. Kitts.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415977685; 9780415977692; 9780203935637
Subjects: Davies, Ray, -- 1944-; Davies, Ray, -- 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation; Kinks (Musical group); Rock musicians -- England -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Not like everybody else : the shaping of Ray Davies, part I; title: Something better beginning : the shaping of Ray Davies, part II; title: You really got me : finding a sound and a theme; title: A well respected man : satirist, ironist, and social commentator; title: Waterloo sunset : the romantic imagination of Ray Davies; title: The Village Green Preservation Society : time, place, identity; title: Arthur : world wars and class culture; title: A long war from home : competing identities; title: Here comes Flash : the rock musicals; title: Juke box music : alienation and love; title: Think visual : TV, CD, and stage; title: 20th century man : the 1990s and beyond.