Britpop and the English Music Tradition

By Bennett and Andy Bennett and Stratton and Jon Stratton

Ashgate Gower
Publication date: September 2010

ISBN: 9781409409328

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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.

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Britpop and the English Music Tradition

This collection of essays examines the links between, and breakages of, Britpop and the tradition of music in England. The neighbouring countries of the UK are introduced, with their own patriotic agendas and fors and againsts the Englishness of a pop culture which they wholeheartedly take part in. The material covered here is cleverly modelled to flow from subject to subject and the conclusions are surprising.

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