The Kinks, The Detroit Spinners and David McWilliams - Songs from the Other Side of the Tracks
A Dirty Street Walked by Shoeless Feet
The town or city poor endure many deprivations: low income, limited job opportunities, rundown and insecure housing. They live in noisy, violent and unhealthy neighborhoods with limited access to educational opportunities.
The stress and fatalism of a situation of maximum susceptibility or vulnerability, with little opportunity of escape has been captured in many pop songs.
The following three songs, David McWilliams - The Days of Pearly Spencer, The Detroit Spinners - Ghetto Child and The Kinks - Dead End Street, all capture the fatalism and stigma faced by the poor in the recesses of the city.
The town or city poor endure many deprivations: low income, limited job opportunities, rundown and insecure housing. They live in noisy, violent and unhealthy neighborhoods with limited access to educational opportunities.
The stress and fatalism of a situation of maximum susceptibility or vulnerability, with little opportunity of escape has been captured in many pop songs.
The following three songs, David McWilliams - The Days of Pearly Spencer, The Detroit Spinners - Ghetto Child and The Kinks - Dead End Street, all capture the fatalism and stigma faced by the poor in the recesses of the city.