A blistering, brilliant and utterly original explanation of the Englishness of English pop culture in the twentieth century. An ambitious mould-breaking book on Englishness which abandons the false distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture in favour of a borderless world where pop music and sculpture, literature and film, TV and painting are all accorded the same respect, and are part of the same vision. Here is the triumphant vindication of the alienated suburban dandy. A cast of thousands, ...
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A blistering, brilliant and utterly original explanation of the Englishness of English pop culture in the twentieth century. An ambitious mould-breaking book on Englishness which abandons the false distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture in favour of a borderless world where pop music and sculpture, literature and film, TV and painting are all accorded the same respect, and are part of the same vision. Here is the triumphant vindication of the alienated suburban dandy. A cast of thousands, a gallery of Britain's finest and lariest, including: the Pet Shop Boys, Evelyn Waugh, the Fall, T-Rex, Larkin, EM Forster, Powell & Pressburger, Pink Floyd, Dexy's, 2-Tone, the Jam, Virginia Woolf, The Carry On Films, The Slits, Bowie, Kate Bush, Fun Boy Three, Wyndham Lewis, The Human League, Rachel Whiteread, Buzzcocks, Graham Greene, Alan Bennett, Sillitoe, X-Ray Spex, Mark Almond, etc, etc.
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Add this copy of England is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to to cart. $24.99, very good condition, Sold by The Book Collection rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tel Aviv, ISRAEL, published 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. 246 p. Audience: General/trade. Hardback 246 pages, ex-library book with rubber-stamp marks, very good condition, tight binding, clean pages.
Add this copy of England is Mine: Pop Life in Albion From Wilde to to cart. $35.81, very good condition, Sold by Reuseabook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester, GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Flamingo.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
Add this copy of England is Mine: Pop Life in Albion From Wilde to to cart. $70.15, very good condition, Sold by Alpha 2 Omega Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southampton, HANTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1997 by HarperCollins.
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Very good in Very good jacket. VGC plus. HarperCollins, 1997. First UK edition-first printing(9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nicks on the edges of the cover and spine) with Dj(small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC plus. Nice and clean pages with small pencil marks impressions on the edges of the half-title page and back endpaper, previous owner's name written on the edges of the front endpaper.247pp including index. Price un-clipped. A collectable first edition.
Add this copy of England is Mine Pop Life in Albion From to cart. $87.89, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Harpercollins Uk.
Add this copy of England is Mine: Pop Life in Albion From Wilde to to cart. $90.56, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Flamingo.
