Dr Gillian Mitchell

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2896

Email

gamm2@st-andrews.ac.uk

Location

St Katharine's Lodge

Office hours

Tuesday 11-1 (office) Thursday 10-11 (via Teams) Or by e-mail appointment.

 

Research areas

North American Folk Revival, 1900-1970; British and North American popular music and culture in the post-1945 period.

Selected publications

• Folk music

  Mitchell, G., 29 Jan 2026, The world of Leonard Cohen. Shumway, D. R. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 77-96

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Laughter in the classroom: London weekend television's Please Sir! (1968-1972)

  Mitchell, G. A. M., 24 Jun 2026, London: UCL Press. 174 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The Jerry Lee Lewis scandal, the popular press and the moral standing of rock 'n' roll in late 1950s Britain

  Mitchell, G. A. M., 24 Oct 2023, Let's spend the night together : sex, pop music and British youth culture, 1950s-80s. Network, S. (ed.). Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 38-57 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The impact of social class on parental responses to popular music in Britain, c.1955-1975

  Mitchell, G. A. M., 6 Feb 2020, The Bloomsbury handbook of popular music and social class . Peddie, I. (ed.). New York: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 35-58 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Adult responses to popular music and intergenerational relations in Britain, c.1955-1975

  Mitchell, G. A. M., Feb 2019, London: Anthem Press. 240 p. (Anthem studies in British history)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The British national daily press and popular music, c.1956-1975

  Mitchell, G. A. M., Feb 2019, London: Anthem Press. 148 p. (Anthem studies in British history)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  'Mod movement in Quality Street clothes': British popular music and pantomime, 1955-1975

  Mitchell, G. A. M., Aug 2017, In: New Theatre Quarterly. 33, 3, p. 254-276

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• From “Rock” to “Beat”: Towards a Reappraisal of British Popular Music, 1958–1962

  Mitchell, G. A. M., 2013, In: Popular Music and Society. 36, 2, p. 194-215

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Reassessing 'the generation gap': Bill Haley's 1957 Tour of Britain, inter-generational relations and attitudes to rock 'n' roll in the late 1950s

  Mitchell, G. A. M., 2013, In: Twentieth Century British History. 24, 4, p. 573-605 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• A Very 'British' Introduction to Rock 'n' Roll: Tommy Steele and the Advent of Rock 'n' Roll Music in Britain, 1956-1960

  Mitchell, G. A. M., Jun 2011, In: Contemporary British History. 25, 2, p. 205-225

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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