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.

• AcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction: Englishness, History and Writing about Pop Music – Seeking the Authentic Voice of Pop-BritainChapter 1: Strategies for Conceptualizing Notions of Pop-Englishness1.1. The Peculiarities of English National Pop Identity1.2. Between Modernity and Tradition: Imaginary Englishness1.3. Englishness and Pop Geography1.4. Pop-Englishness and Transnationalism: The History of Americanization and Relation to Europe1.5. The Peculiar Entrepreneurialism of British Music ManagementChapter 2: From Tommy Steele to Village Green Preservation Society2.1. Pop, English Parochialism and Post-War Britain − Change and Continuity2.2. Young England, Half English: Englishness, the History of National Music and the Emergence of British Rock’n’roll2.3. The Myth of Swinging Englishness: The British Invasion and Swinging London2.4. Lazing on a Sunny Psychedelic Afternoon − Englishness and the 1960s Nostalgia for Imaginary Spaces of EnglandChapter 3: Anarchy and Enterprise in the UK and the Multiplying of Notions of Pop-Englishness3.1. From the Winter of Discontent to Free Enterprise: Thatcherism, Pop and Englishness3.2. Punk, Disco and Progressive Rock: The Proliferation of Pop-Englishness in the 1970s3.3. Dandyist Masks and Escape Rout(in)es of David Bowie and the New Pop3.4. Pop-Englishness and Politics: The White British Soul BoysChapter 4: The Road to Britpop and Back4.1. Blairism and Cameronism: Pop, Politics and Englishness4.2. Morrissey as an International Outsider4.3. The North Strikes Back − Madchester and the Northern Metaphor Revisited4.4. The Battle for Britpop4.5. Post-Britpop and the Ghosts of Englishnesses PastReferencesIndex