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This site is all about music, music that we love and hate as long as it stirs some emotion it is worth listening to and talking about.
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Area of Study 3 - Britpop and it's Influences I was asked to do a series of four half hour radio programmes on the subject of "Britpop and it's Influences" which were broadcast on OSCAR Radio during the Autumn of 2007 and the Spring of 2008. They are available here for download at approximately 14MB per episode.
Britpop - Part 1 Britpop - Part 2
Britpop - Part 3 Britpop - Part 4 A PowerPoint presentation on the Britpop topic can be downloaded here: Britpop - PowerPoint and a document suggesting tracks and a key to the photos can be downloaded here: Britpop PowerPoint - Tracks & Photos Alternatively the slides can be downloaded as single photos below:
To accompany the slides there is a set of student notes (Word) that can be downloaded here: Britpop Student Notes Or as a Pdf file here: Britpop Student Notes PDF Books, Free Resources, CDs and DVDs Books The best books on the subject of Britpop are "The Last Party (Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock)" and "Britpop!: Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock" both by John Harris. Buyer BEWARE as they are identical in every way except for the title, cover and publisher!
An excellent "warts and all" insight into the whole Britpop / Cool Britannia genre. They are very readable and informative books, and although they do not contain any conventional musical analysis, they give a real idea as to how the genre came to be. Appendix 3 has an excellent guide to the influences of the Britpop bands and a "where are they now" section, that highlights just how fragile the whole thing was! CDs They are many hundreds of CDs available from the Britpop era. The titles that best demonstrate the genre and its influences are below, click on the CD covers to be taken to the Amazon.co.uk pages:
DVDs Likewise there are many DVDs available that are intended for fans, but there are some useful bits and pieces. In particular the Live Forever! DVD, which was a television documentary, contains some interesting interviews with the major players of the Britpop bands (contains strong language). Much of the DVD material is available through sites like You Tube (see below).
Internet The internet really comes into its own with Britpop. Here are some selected highlights, although a search through You Tube will throw up hours of material.
Noel Gallagher of Oasis talks about songwriting Blur's video for their single "Country Life" directed by the artist Damien Hirst
Pulp's greatest hit "Common People"
The Britpop Story - Part 1 presented by John Harris The Britpop Story - Part 2 presented by John Harris
The Britpop Story - Part 3 presented by John Harris The Britpop Story - Part 4 presented by John Harris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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