Search results
Britpop was a mid-1990s British-based music culture movement that emphasised Britishness. Musically, Britpop produced bright, catchy alternative rock, in reaction to the darker lyrical themes and soundscapes of the US-led grunge music and the UK's own shoegaze music scene.
Jul 20, 2023 · Mike Smith was the leading Britpop music publisher at MCA and EMI Music Publishing – signing the likes of Blur, Elastica, The Verve and Supergrass – and went on to senior roles at the likes of Columbia Records, Virgin EMI, Warner Chappell and Downtown.
People also ask
What is Britpop music?
What does a Britpop writer do?
When did Britpop start?
Why is Britpop called 'Britpop'?
Jul 15, 2023 · 15 July 2023. By Mark Savage,BBC Music Correspondent. Getty Images. Blur's "Life" trilogy - Modern Life Is Rubbish, Parklife and The Great Escape - were some of the defining albums of...
May 7, 2022 · Britpop: Decades. Paperback – May 7, 2022. Britpop Decades covers the ten-years that witnessed the birth, boom and bust of Britpop – a period in which home-grown indie guitar music from across the UK went mainstream, pop stars were cut from the most unlikely of cloth, and British culture made its voice heard with some incredibly bombastic ...
- (10)
- Paperback
- Peter Adams, Matt Pooler
Jan 28, 2013 · Britpop and the English Music Tradition. Professor Andy Bennett, Professor Jon Stratton. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Jan 28, 2013 - Music - 242 pages. Britpop and the English Music...
Britpop, movement of British rock bands in the 1990s that drew consciously on the tradition of melodic, guitar-based British pop music established by the Beatles. Like nearly all musical youth trends, Britpop was about songs, guitars, jackets, and attitudes—though not necessarily in that order.
Britpop and the English Music Tradition is the first study devoted exclusively to the Britpop phenomenon and its contexts. The genre of Britpop, with its assertion of Englishness, evolved at the same time that devolution was striking deep into the hegemonic claims of English culture to represent Britain.
