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Author_Guy Mankowski
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English identity
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Product details
- ISBN 9781789040289
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Albion's Secret History compiles snapshots of English pop culture’s rebels and outsiders, from Evelyn Waugh to PJ Harvey via The Long Blondes and The Libertines. By focusing on cultural figures who served to define England, Guy Mankowski looks at those who have really shaped Albion’s secret history, not just its oft-quoted official cultural history. He departs from the narrative that dutifully follows the Beatles, The Sex Pistols and Oasis, and, by instead penetrating the surface of England’s pop history (including the venues it was shaped in), throws new light on ideas of Englishness. As well as music, Mankowski draws from art, film, architecture and politics, showing the moments at which artists like Tricky and Goldfrapp altered our sense of a sometimes green but sometimes unpleasant land. 'The most illuminating odyssey through lost, hidden or forgotten English pop culture since Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine.' Rhian E. Jones, author of Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender
Guy Mankowski is the author of the novels The Intimates, Letters from Yelena, How I Left The National Grid and An Honest Deceit. He holds a PhD from Northumbria University and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Lincoln University. Guy was a singer in the signed band Alba Nova. Albion's Secret History is his first non-fiction work about England's pop culture. He lives in Lincoln, UK.
