| Description |
1 online resource (266 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Popular Music |
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Routledge studies in popular music.
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| Contents |
Cover; Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Opening Ceremony; Part I The National Tradition; 2 The National Voice; 3 Canon, Heritage, and Tradition; 4 Retrenchment and Rebellion; Part II The Communal Voice; 5 The English People: Fractures and Fraternity; 6 Women and Song; 7 Race and Indigeneity; Part III Empire and Nation; 8 An Elizabethan Age; 9 Yesterday Came Suddenly; 10 The Empire Slips Back; Conclusion: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness. Rather than providing a history of popular music or an itemization of indigenous musical qualities, it exposes the influential cultural and nationalist rhetoric around popular music and the dissemination of that rhetoric in various forms. Since the 1960s, popular music has surpassed literature to become the dominant signifier of modern British culture and identity. This position has been enforced in popular culture, literature, news and music media, political |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nationalism in music.
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Popular music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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Popular music -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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Civilization.
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Nationalism in music.
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Popular music.
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Popular music -- Social aspects.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056626
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| Subject |
Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135048952 |
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1135048959 |
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