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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. ** Review There's an old, oft-used, truism that the arts help us make sense of the world in which we live. Never has the world needed such conduits to comprehension as we do today, as we grapple with the seemingly unthinkable realit

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Author

Lee Brooks (editor), Mark Donnelly (editor), Richard Mills (editor)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501311277

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Music, Arts