Mad Dogs and Englishness

Lee Brooks, Mark Donnelly and Richard Mills work in the School of Arts and Humanities at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK. They have extensive experience of teaching courses on popular music cultures. They have also published on subjects such as Sixties Britain, The Beatles and Morrissey.

• Foreword Rupa Huq (Kingston University, UK)AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Englishness, whose Englishness? Lee Brooks and Mark Donnelly (St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK)Part One: English Heritage1. ‘Rosy, Won’t You Please Come Home’: Family, Home, and Cultural Identity in the Music of Ray Davies and the Kinks. Carey Fleiner (University of Winchester, UK)2. ‘Rule Britannia is out of bounds’: David Bowie and English Heritage.David Bowie Is … (2013) The Next Day (2013) and Blackstar (2016) Richard Mills (St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK)3. Mod Cons: Back to the Future with The Jam (1977-79) Ben Winsworth (University of Orleans, France)4. PJ Harvey and Remembering England Abigail Gardner (University of Gloucestershire, UK)Part Two: Spaces of Identity5. An adventure in English Space and Time: Sound as Experience in Doctor Who (An Unearthly Child) Dene October (University of Arts, London, UK)6. Productive boredom and unproductive labour: Cabaret Voltaire in the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire Jon Hackett (St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK)7. Flag of Convenience? The Union Jack as a contested symbol of Englishness in popular music or a convenient marketing device? Johnny Hopkins (Brighton Institute of Modern Music, UK)Part Three: Performing Discrepancy8. The Poison in the Human Machine Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris)9. ‘Brand New You’re Retro’: Tricky as Engpop Dissident Christian Lloyd and Shara Rambarran (Brighton Institute of Modern Music, UK)10. The (un)masked bard: Burial’s denied profile and the memory of English underground music Gabriele Marino (University of Turin, Italy)11. Albion Voice: The Englishness of Bishi Simon Keegan-Phipps and Trish Winter (University of Sheffield, UK and University of Sunderland, UK)Index

With Brexit looming, and ongoing questions of ‘Britishness’ and ‘Englishness’ in relation to borders, immigration, migrant workers and national independence within the United Kingdom being asked, this book couldn’t be more timely.