Britpop and the English Music Tradition (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

Stratton, Jon

ISBN 10: 0754668053 / ISBN 13: 9780754668053

Verlag: Routledge, 2010

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABLIING23Feb2416190154225

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities at Griffith University, Australia. Jon Stratton is Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University of Technology, Australia.

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Titel: Britpop and the English Music Tradition (...
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New