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Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identities

  • Editor: Brooks, Lee
  • Editor: Donnelly, Mark
  • Editor: Mills, Richard
With Brexit looming, and ongoing questions of 'Britishness' and 'Englishness' in relation to borders, immigration, migrant workers and national independence within the United Kingdom being asked,... More…

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Contents

  • Foreword Rupa Huq (Kingston University, UK)
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction Englishness, whose Englishness? Lee Brooks and Mark Donnelly (St Mary's University, Twickenham, London, UK) Part One: English Heritage
  • 1. 'Rosy, Won't You Please Come Home': Family, Home, and Cultural Identity in the Music of Ray Davies and the Kinks. Carey Fleiner (University of Winchester, UK)
  • 2. 'Rule Britannia is out of bounds': David Bowie and English Heritage. David Bowie Is ... (2013) The Next Day (2013) and Blackstar (2016) Richard Mills (St Mary's University, Twickenham, London, UK)
  • 3. Mod Cons: Back to the Future with The Jam (1977-79) Ben Winsworth (University of Orleans, France)
  • 4. PJ Harvey and Remembering England Abigail Gardner (University of Gloucestershire, UK) Part Two: Spaces of Identity
  • 5. An adventure in English Space and Time: Sound as Experience in Doctor Who (An Unearthly Child) Dene October (University of Arts, London, UK)
  • 6. Productive boredom and unproductive labour: Cabaret Voltaire in the People's Republic of South Yorkshire Jon Hackett (St Mary's University, Twickenham, London, UK)
  • 7. Flag of Convenience? The Union Jack as a contested symbol of Englishness in popular music or a convenient marketing device? Johnny Hopkins (Brighton Institute of Modern Music, UK) Part Three: Performing Discrepancy
  • 8. The Poison in the Human Machine Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris)
  • 9. 'Brand New You're Retro': Tricky as Engpop Dissident Christian Lloyd and Shara Rambarran (Brighton Institute of Modern Music, UK)
  • 10. The (un)masked bard: Burial's denied profile and the memory of English underground music Gabriele Marino (University of Turin, Italy)
  • 11. Albion Voice: The Englishness of Bishi Simon Keegan-Phipps and Trish Winter (University of Sheffield, UK and University of Sunderland, UK)
  • Index