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Scrutiny to subcultures: notes on literary criticism and popular music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Dave Laing
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In 1993 several of the British national newspapers published obituaries of a Liverpool schoolteacher, Alan Durband. He had been a key figure in the establishment of the Everyman Theatre in the city and he was the former head of English teaching at the Liverpool Institute, the school which is shortly to be reopened as the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Among Durband's students in the 1950s were Paul McCartney and George Harrison. ‘His love of the English language was infectious’, wrote one of Durband's obituarists and it is tempting to imagine a link between this enthusiasm and the lyricist who produced ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and ‘For No One’.

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Popular Music , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , May 1994 , pp. 179 - 190
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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