sadmanbarty
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a pan-cultural patchwork guide to the british revival
A rough outline as I understand it:
70's crystallisation of Britishness in the popular imagination
he'll post youtube clips of old sitcoms. maybe films. maybe songs. he'll extrapolate and detail what archetypal britishness is. wicker man
nu-britian
he'll document how this was shaken in the 80's and 90's. union busting. south wales valleys. sade. electro soul. blair's social liberalism and internationalism. jungle. garage.
90's latent british revivalism
maastricht
midsummer murders
00's
rise of ukip
british comedy
2010's
mrs browns boys
migrant crisis
brexit
a pan-cultural patchwork guide to the british revival
A rough outline as I understand it:
70's crystallisation of Britishness in the popular imagination
he'll post youtube clips of old sitcoms. maybe films. maybe songs. he'll extrapolate and detail what archetypal britishness is. wicker man
nu-britian
he'll document how this was shaken in the 80's and 90's. union busting. south wales valleys. sade. electro soul. blair's social liberalism and internationalism. jungle. garage.
90's latent british revivalism
The pre-Britpop context is interesting. Late-92 to late-93 was the key period (which also coincides with the darkcore era in the alternative Dissensus canon): there was the Morrisey Finsbury Park incident in August 92 and the BNP council by-election victory in the Isle of Dogs in September 1993 which sparked an Anti-Nazi League revival. This all culminated in a big anti-racism concert in Brockwell Park in May 1994.
This is the same time that Blur were creating their British Image. The best contemporary review of Modern Life is Rubbish was in Lime Lizard and it was an extended essay, basically, on this phenomenon, which opened with the very serious and outraged and anxious question of Blur: “Why ‘Britishness’? Why now?” This was never properly answered, no one even really engaged with it, until suddenly Parklife was the greatest British album since the Beatles or the Jam depending on your perspective, and then it was too late to go back to it.
Everything happened so fast in those days, one thing reacting to the previous thing, that it’s difficult to go back and unpick what happened between then and Parklife but some significant (and negative) shift occurred and British culture ended.
Unless you were listening to jungle.
maastricht
midsummer murders
00's
rise of ukip
british comedy
2010's
mrs browns boys
migrant crisis
brexit
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