Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-229) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Englishness, History and Writing about Pop Music -- Seeking the Authentic Voice of Pop-Britain -- 1. Strategies for Conceptualizing Notions of Pop-Englishness -- 2. From Tommy Steele to Village Green Preservation Society -- 3. Anarchy and Enterprise in the UK and the Multiplying of Notions of Pop-Englishness -- 4. The Road to Britpop and Back.
Summary:
English pop music was a dominant force on the global cultural scene in the decades after World War II and it served a key role in defining, constructing, and challenging various ideas about Englishness in the period. Kari Kallioniemi covers a stunning range of styles of pop from punk, reggae, and psychedelia to jazz, rock, Brit Pop, and beyond as he explores the question of how various artists (including such major figures as David Bowie and Morrissey), genres, and pieces of music contributed to the developing understanding of who and what was English in the transformative postwar years.
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