Jon Stratton

Britpop and the English Music Tradition

Herausgeber: Bennett, Andy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Devoted exclusively to the Britpop phenomenon and its contexts, this book examines issues such as the historical antecedents of Britpop, the subjectivities governing the performative conventions of Britpop, the cultural context within which Britpop unfolded, and its influence on the post-Britpop music scene in the UK.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780754668053
• ISBN-10: 0754668053
• Artikelnr.: 41243910

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Musical Examples
Notes on Contributors
General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1 History and Context
Section 2 Britpop
Section 3 Post-Britpop
Bibliography
Index