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KER-POW! A Bitesize History of Pop Art

Author and art historian Thomas Crow brings us his audio guide to Pop Art

As part of ‘6 Music Celebrates Pop Art’, every day on the show this week Lauren featured a special package presented by art historian and author Thomas Crow, charting the history of this creative movement and how it has helped shape what’s become known as ‘popular music’.

We’ve gathered each of these audio delights here for you in one handy place. So Join us on a journey that starts in the 1950s, takes us through the advent of jukeboxes, Andy Warhol’s Factory, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Peter Blake’s cover art for The Beatles, The Who... right through to that other Factory collective– Manchester’s Factory Records.

19 minutes

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