Englishness, Pop and Post-War Britain

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction: Englishness, History and Writing about Pop Music - Seeking the Authentic Voice of Pop-Britain
• Chapter 1: Strategies for Conceptualizing Notions of Pop-Englishness
• 1.1. The Peculiarities of English National Pop Identity
• 1.2. Between Modernity and Tradition: Imaginary Englishness
• 1.3. Englishness and Pop Geography
• 1.4. Pop-Englishness and Transnationalism: The History of Americanization and Relation to Europe
• 1.5. The Peculiar Entrepreneurialism of British Music Management
• Chapter 2: From Tommy Steele to Village Green Preservation Society
• 2.1. Pop, English Parochialism and Post-War Britain Change and Continuity
• 2.2. Young England, Half English: Englishness, the History of National Music and the Emergence of British Rock'n'roll
• 2.3. The Myth of Swinging Englishness: The British Invasion and Swinging London
• 2.4. Lazing on a Sunny Psychedelic Afternoon Englishness and the 1960s Nostalgia for Imaginary Spaces of England
• Chapter 3: Anarchy and Enterprise in the UK and the Multiplying of Notions of Pop-Englishness
• 3.1. From the Winter of Discontent to Free Enterprise: Thatcherism, Pop and Englishness
• 3.2. Punk, Disco and Progressive Rock: The Proliferation of Pop-Englishness in the 1970s
• 3.3. Dandyist Masks and Escape Rout(in)es of David Bowie and the New Pop
• 3.4. Pop-Englishness and Politics: The White British Soul Boys
• Chapter 4: The Road to Britpop and Back
• 4.1. Blairism and Cameronism: Pop, Politics and Englishness
• 4.2. Morrissey as an International Outsider
• 4.3. The North Strikes Back Madchester and the Northern Metaphor Revisited
• 4.4. The Battle for Britpop
• 4.5. Post-Britpop and the Ghosts of Englishnesses Past
• References
• Index