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Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identities

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

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2017
ISBN
1501311255, 9781501311253
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2600592 bytes)
Pages
240\241
Library
Memory of the World Library
Time added
2022-03-30 00:25:33

Description

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. 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 Conclusion References 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 Harvey the archivist Finding 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 Sound of the city Mode 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 Introduction: God save the Queen, the fascist regime The 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 Chapter 11 Albion Voice: The Englishness of Bishi Bishi Cosmopolitanism Ancient Englishness Rearticulations of imperial Englishness Cosmopolitan Englishness The disruptive voices and images of Bishi Cosmopolitanism, national identity and the Englishness of Bishi Notes References Index

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