brit pop and grime
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Writing up the case study of BritPop for Media and Collective Identity
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““One is Anglo-centric, frequently conservative, backward looking, and increasingly located in a frozen and largely stereotyped idea of the national culture. The other is ex-centric, open ended, and multi-ethnic. The first is based on a homogenous ‘unity’ in which history, tradition, and individual biographies and roles, including ethnic and sexual ones, are fundamentally fixed and embalmed in the national epic, in the mere fact of being ‘British’. The other perspective suggests an overlapping network of histories and traditions, a heterogeneous complexity in which positions and identities, including that of the national, cannot be taken for granted are not interminably fixed but are in flux.” Iain Chambers
frequently conservative, backward looking,
fixed and embalmed in the national epic
homogenous ‘unity’ in which ... roles, including ethnic and sexual ones, are fundamentally fixed
largely stereotyped idea of the national culture
Anglo-centric
Zuberi has spoken of Britpop as being a ‘patrotic/ xenophobic reaction multicultural Britain’.
Bennett who has reflected how Britpop was a ‘traditionalist view of British cultural identity’
Retisamer’s work on Britpop has effectively concluded that at the time,British guitar pop simply ‘equalled white masculinity’.
Cloonan has questioned the use of ‘Brit’ as in fact that all of the bands that were included under the term were ‘quintessentially English’.
Britpop ‘excluded an extraordinary range of people, sounds and experiences’ Gilbert & Ewan Pearson
Britpop symbolic of a ‘flag waving’ periodBennett, 1997
Britpop symbolic of a ‘flag waving’ periodBennett, 1997
Britpop ‘excluded an extraordinary range of people, sounds and experiences’ Gilbert & Ewan Pearson
Cloonan has questioned the use of ‘Brit’ as in fact that all of the bands that were included under the term were ‘quintessentially English’.
Retisamer’s work on Britpop has effectively concluded that at the time,British guitar pop simply ‘equalled white masculinity’.
Bennett who has reflected how Britpop was a ‘traditionalist view of British cultural identity’
Zuberi has spoken of Britpop as being a ‘patrotic/ xenophobic reaction multicultural Britain’.
Anglo-centric
largely stereotyped idea of the national culture
homogenous ‘unity’ in which ... roles, including ethnic and sexual ones, are fundamentally fixed
fixed and embalmed in the national epic
frequently conservative, backward looking,
According to Chambers, there are two conflicting representations of Britishness, the first…
BritPop was a musical movement of the 1990s, the main artists were...
I believe that the representation of nation offered by BritPop was...
Explain/Analyse/Argue 20 Marks
Examples 20 Marks
Terminology 10 Marks
Bands Lyrics
Music videos
Interviews
Hegemony Pluralism
Low High
Interrogate Chambers quotation
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ILT - Complete a case study applying Chambers to Grime
http://stanfordfas.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/white_sfas2011.pdf