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Mad Dogs and Englishness : Popular Music and English Identities, Hardback Book

Mad Dogs and Englishness : Popular Music and English Identities Hardback

Edited by Lee (St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK) Brooks, Mark (St Mary’s University, UK) Donnelly, Dr Richard (St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK) Mills

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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.

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