- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (6 April 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006550150
- ISBN-13: 978-0006550150
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #7 in Books > Music, Stage & Screen > Film > History of Film > Britain
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The critics raved:
‘Incoming! Another cultural guru!… England Is Mine will enter the bloodstream.’
Time Out;
‘A weighty pan-cultural blockbuster… the extraordinary depth of Bracewell’s erudition is matched by a lively sense of mischief.’
Independent on Sunday;
‘A shrewdly argued and delightfully written account of the English pop psyche.’
Financial Times;
‘intoxicated and intoxicating’
Greil Marcus, W
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A blistering, brilliant and utterly original explanation of the Englishness of English pop culture in the twentieth century.
An ambitious mould-breaking book on Englishness which abandons the false distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture in favour of a borderless world where pop music and sculpture, literature and film, TV and painting are all accorded the same respect, and are part of the same vision.
Here is the triumphant vindication of the alienated suburban dandy.
A cast of thousands, a gallery of Britain’s finest and lariest, including: the Pet Shop Boys, Evelyn Waugh, the Fall, T-Rex, Larkin, EM Forster, Powell & Pressburger, Pink Floyd, Dexy’s, 2-Tone, the Jam, Virginia Woolf, The Carry On Films, The Slits, Bowie, Kate Bush, Fun Boy Three, Wyndham Lewis, The Human League, Rachel Whiteread, Buzzcocks, Graham Greene, Alan Bennett, Sillitoe, X-Ray Spex, Mark Almond, etc, etc.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Bracewell's book is a brilliant account of the idiosyncracies of English pop culture. He charts the ambivalent aristo-observation of Auden and Foster to the Manchester melodrama of Morrissey. As a Pevsner of pop he dissects the effects of the suburbs on The Cure and urban planning on Birmingham's Dexy's. After the jingoism of Britpop this is a lucid and compelling account of British popular culture.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
By a country mile, the best book on the British pop scene. Only George Melly's Revolt into Style is fit to touch its shirt tails. Despite the title, Bracewell's trip barely escapes the 1970s and 80s: from Roxy Music to the Specials, somehow the Beatles and the Stones get lost -- older brother music for the Mojo generation -- so everything is just that little bit more parochial than it should be, but then his claims for the British specifity of his subject are beautifully achieved. A book that makes you fall in love again with the music you've lived with all your life. Lovely.
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