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England Is Mine

by Michael Bracewell
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Overview

Shows how pop music reflects the culture of the 20th century. It claims that the most culturally significant type in British culture is the alienated suburban dandy, nowadays the kid who feels odd, hates his comfortable, dull surroundings and yearns for the bright lights of the big cities.

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Big Issue

Surely the strangest and most beautiful book on pop music ever written.

Financial Times

England is Mine is a pithy reminder to update Shaw's famous dictum: it is not just a common language that divides Britain from the US, but a starkly contrasting sensibility; and as this fine cultural commentary proves, what better place than popular music to analyze the divide? Bracewell provides a shrewdly argued and delightfully written account of the English pop psyche.

The Big Issue

Surely the strangest and most beautiful book on pop music ever written. T

The Financial Times

England is Mine is a pithy reminder to update Shaw's famous dictum: it is not just a common language that divides Britain from the US, but a starkly contrasting sensibility; and as this fine cultural commentary proves, what better place than popular music to analyze the divide? Bracewell provides a shrewdly argued and delightfully written account of the English pop psyche.

Book Details

Published
April 6, 1998
Publisher
London : Flamingo, 1998, c1997.
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780006550150

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