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1 online resource (xv, 224 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Includes discographies. |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Foreword -- Pop Goes Academia; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Englishness, whose Englishness? ; The English enigma; Sounds of Englishness; Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular music and English identities; Notes; References; Part 1 English heritage; Chapter 1 'Rosy, Won't You Please Come Home':; Family, home and cultural identity in the music of Ray Davies and the Kinks; Introduction; Superficial signposts of Englishness; Just an English boy on holiday ... ; The Kinks and their Village Green; The posh kids always win: Misfits and solidarity. |
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ConclusionReferences; Chapter 2 'Rule Britannia is out of bounds': ; David Bowie and English heritage. David Bowie Is ... (2013) The Next Day (2013) and Blackstar (2016); David Bowie (1947-2016); David Bowie Is ... Retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2013); The Next Day (2013); Blackstar and Lazarus videos: 'Look at me I'm in heaven'; Blackstar (2016); Heritage culture, Bowie's Englishness and a Diamond Dog who is 'happily mongrelized'; References; Chapter 3 Mod Cons:; Back to the future with The Jam (1977-79); References; Chapter 4 PJ Harvey and remembering England; Introduction. |
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Harvey the archivistFinding England; Harvey: English rural; White Chalk: Harvey's return of the native; Remembering England: Shaking England beyond nostalgia; Conclusion ; Bibliography; Part 2 Spaces of identity; Chapter 5 Adventures in English space and time: ; Sound as experience in Doctor Who (An Unearthly Child); The time-space of 1960s London, England; Sound and modernism(s); The soundscape of An Unearthly Child; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Productive boredom and unproductive labour: ; Cabaret Voltaire in the People's Republic of South Yorkshire; Cabaret Voltaire; Unproductive labour. |
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Sound of the cityMode of production -- or moment of consumption?; Machines; Residual artisanship; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7 Flag of convenience? The Union Jack as a contested symbol of Englishness in popular music or a convenient marketing device? ; Introduction; State of the nation; The flag and art; The Who, pop music and the flag; Fashion, Swinging London, and the pop life of the Union Jack ; Rebranding the nation; Music and national identity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part 3 Performing discrepancy; Chapter 8 The poison in the human machine. |
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Introduction: God save the Queen, the fascist regimeThe decency fallacy: Everybody's doing just what they are told to; Commodifying decency: You are in suspension; Commodifying fracture: I wanna be Anarchy; Commodifying authenticity: Do not pretend 'cos I do not care; Conclusion: The death of punk; Notes; References; Chapter 9 'Brand New You're Retro': ; Tricky as Engpop dissident; Notes; References; Chapter 10 The (un)masked bard: ; Burial's denied profile and the memory of English underground music; Intro (South London Boroughs); Outro (Truant/Rough Sleeper); Notes; References. |
| Summary |
Mad Dogs and Englishness connects English popular music with questions about English national identities, featuring essays that range across Bowie and Burial, PJ Harvey, Bishi and Tricky. The later years of the 20th century saw a resurgence of interest in cultural and political meanings of Englishness in ways that continue to resonate now. Pop music is simultaneously on the outside and inside of the ensuing debates. It can be used as a mode of commentary about how meanings of Englishness circulate socially. But it also produces those meanings, often underwriting claims about English national cultural distinctiveness and superiority. This book's expert contributors use trans-national and trans-disciplinary perspectives to provide historical and contemporary commentaries about pop's complex relationships with Englishness. Each chapter is based on original research, and the essays comprise the best single volume available on pop and the English imaginary. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Popular music -- England -- History and criticism.
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Popular music. |
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England. |
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National characteristics, English.
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National characteristics, English. |
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Brooks, Lee, editor.
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Donnelly, Mark, 1967- editor.
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Mills, Richard, 1964- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mad dogs and Englishness. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781501311253 (DLC) 2017013601 |
| ISBN |
9781501311260 (electronic book) |
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1501311263 (electronic book) |
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9781501311277 (epub) |
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1501311271 (epub) |
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9781501311253 (hardcover) |
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