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Britpop and the English Music Tradition (Paperback)
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Britpop and the English Music Tradition (Paperback)
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Britpop and the English Music Tradition is the first study devoted
exclusively to the Britpop phenomenon and its contexts. The genre
of Britpop, with its assertion of Englishness, evolved at the same
time that devolution was striking deep into the hegemonic claims of
English culture to represent Britain. It is usually argued that
Britpop, with its strident declarations of Englishness, was a
response to the dominance of grunge. The contributors in this
volume take a different point of view: that Britpop celebrated
Englishness at a time when British culture, with its English
hegemonic core, was being challenged and dismantled. It is now
timely to look back on Britpop as a cultural phenomenon of the
1990s that can be set into the political context of its time, and
into the cultural context of the last fifty years - a time of
fundamental revision of what it means to be British and English.
The book examines issues such as the historical antecedents of
Britpop, the subjectivities governing the performative conventions
of Britpop, the cultural context within which Britpop unfolded, and
its influence on the post-Britpop music scene in the UK. While
Britpop is central to the volume, discussion of this phenomenon is
used as an opportunity to examine the particularities of English
popular music since the turn of the twentieth century.
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