Englishness, Pop and Post-War Britain

Kari Kallioniemi is a researcher, adjunct professor and the leader of the ‘Thatcherism, Popular Culture and the 1980s’ project at the Cultural History department, University of Turku. His research interests focus on the relationships between different notions of nationality, neo-right and popular culture. His recent book on this subject is Englishness, Pop and Post-War Britain (Intellect, 2016). His current project deals with the themes of fascination with fascism in popular culture.

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