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England is Mine: Pop Life in Albion

England is Mine: Pop Life in Albion

Pop Life in Albion

by Michael Bracewell
Paperback
Age range: + years old Publication Date: 16/04/2009

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An electrifying, trenchant meditation on Englands pop sensibility, England Is Mine shows the novelist and critic Michael Bracewell on blistering form as he hops from Oscar Wilde to Paul Weller, Goldie to Graham Greene, in a dizzyingly erudite cultural history.

Bracewells eye is unswervingly democratic, as, for example, W. H. Auden (grandfather of the robot dandys) is to be found sitting next to David Bowie (a sort of Mod from Mars). He is also intensely funny: who was it that [covered] the territory of Angela Carters Company of Wolves in the guise of a pre-Raphaelite raised on Jackie? Kate Bush, of course.

Through impassioned argument and an insight both hilarious and surgical (note Oasiss veneration of the Beatles as an example of Englands nostalgia for Englishness as a kind of heritage pop) England Is Mine offers a genuinely unique and, more importantly, cogent take on Englands pop history.
ISBN:
9780571251186
9780571251186
Category:
Popular culture
Age range:
+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-04-2009
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
252
Dimensions (mm):
126x198x18mm
Weight:
0.27kg
Michael Bracewell

Michael Bracewell is the author of six novels and two works of non-fiction, including the much acclaimed England Is Mine. His writing has appeared in The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Fashion Writing and The Faber Book of Pop, and he has written catalogue texts for many contemporary artists, including Richard Wentworth, Jim Lambie and Gilbert & George. He was the co-curator of 'The Secret Public: The Last Days of The British Underground, 1977-1988', at Kunstverein Munchen in 2006, and was a Turner Prize judge in 2007.

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