Albion's Secret History (eBook)

Snapshots of England's Pop Rebels and Outsiders

Guy Mankowski (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
152 Seiten
John Hunt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78904-029-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Snapshots of how English pop culture’s rebels and outsiders, from The Long Blondes and The Libertines, to Tricky and Goldfrapp, altered our sense of a green but sometimes unpleasant land.

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Albions Secret History compiles snapshots of English pop culture's rebels and outsiders, from Evelyn Waugh to PJ Harvey via The Long Blondes and The Libertines. By focusing on cultural figures who served to define England, Guy Mankowski looks at those who have really shaped Albion's secret history, not just its oft-quoted official cultural history. He departs from the narrative that dutifully follows the Beatles, The Sex Pistols and Oasis, and, by instead penetrating the surface of England's pop history (including the venues it was shaped in), throws new light on ideas of Englishness. As well as music, Mankowski draws from art, film, architecture and politics, showing the moments at which artists like Tricky and Goldfrapp altered our sense of a sometimes green but sometimes unpleasant land. The most illuminating odyssey through lost, hidden or forgotten English pop culture since Michael Bracewells England Is Mine. Rhian E. Jones, author of Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.3.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Architecture • ART • British Identity • British music culture • British music legends • British music scene • Britishness • British pop culture • British society • Culture Studies • English identity • English music culture • English music legends • English music scene • Englishness • English pop culture • English Society • Film • History • history of British popular music • history of English popular music • history of popular music • music • music innovators • Music Legends • Politics • Pop culture • Social Science • Sociology • the arts • the British • The English
• ISBN-10: 1-78904-029-9 / 1789040299
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78904-029-6 / 9781789040296