Mad Dogs and Englishness
Popular Music and English Identities
Published on 18. April 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-5013-5202-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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, this book couldn't be more timely. * Punk & Post-Punk * There's an old, oft-used, truism that the arts help us make sense of the world in which we live. Never has the world needed such conduits to comprehension as we do today, as we grapple with the seemingly unthinkable reality of the post-Brexit United Kingdom standing separate from Europe, and the juggernaut that is the United States of America lying in the unpredictable hands of Donald Trump, a "surely it couldn't happen" president. Within the arts, popular music functions as both a contemporaneous mirror to the society in which it was spawned and a potent agent for enlightenment, protest, and change. In Mad Dogs and Englishness an admirably broad and talented team of international scholars unpicks the cultural and political implications of being English, as represented through the always exciting lens of popular music. The "problem" of being English is tackled head-on in this watershed volume that ranges admirably free of disciplinary fences. * Ian Chapman, Senior Lecturer in Music, The University of Otago, New Zealand *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5013-5202-7 (9781501352027)
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Additional editions
Lee Brooks | Mark Donnelly | Richard Mills
Mad Dogs and Englishness
Popular Music and English Identities
E-Book
10/2017
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic USA
€39.99
Available for download
Lee Brooks | Mark Donnelly | Richard Mills
Mad Dogs and Englishness
Popular Music and English Identities
E-Book
10/2017
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic USA
€39.99
Available for download
Persons
Lee Brooks, Mark Donnelly and Richard Mills work in the School of Arts and Humanities at St Mary's University, Twickenham, UK. They have extensive experience of teaching courses on popular music cultures. They have also published on subjects such as Sixties Britain, The Beatles and Morrissey.
Content
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
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