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Item Metadata only A. J. Cook, D. H. Lawrence, and Revolutionary England: Discourses and Performances of Region and Nation in 1926(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Featherstone, S.Focusing on the coincidence of journeys to the East Midlands made by D. H. Lawrence and the Secretary of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, Arthur Cook, the chapter explores the ways in which the two men represented issues of national identity and struggle in the aftermath of the General Strike of May 1926. It examines Cook's oratory and engagement with the profound regionalism of his union along with Lawrence's fictional and non-fictional reflections upon his final visit to his native region in a reconsideration of what both men represented as a revolutionary moment.Item Metadata only Colonial Poetry of the First World War(Cambridge University Press, 2013) Featherstone, S.Item Metadata only The Egyptian hall and the platform of transatlantic exchange: Charles Browne, P. T. Barnum and Albert Smith(2002-03-01) Featherstone, S.Item Metadata only The English Folk Voice: Singing and Cultural Identity in the English Folk Revival, 1955-65(Ashgate, 2013) Featherstone, S.The chapter examines the meanings of the distinctive singing style associated with the post-Second World War English folk revival. It argues that this 'folk voice' represents a performative response to the cultural challenges presented by the Edwardian folk revival, a new emphasis on cultural authenticity and the influence of imported recordings of American traditional music.Item Metadata only Englishness: Twentieth-Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity(Edinburgh University Press, 2009) Featherstone, S.The book examines the conflicts, dilemmas and contradictions that marked Englishness as the nation changed from an imperial power to a postcolonial state. The chapters deal with such topics as travel writing, popular song, music hall and variety theatres, dances, elocution lessons, cricket and football, and national festivals, as well as with literature and film.Item Metadata only The Epitome of National Life: Metropolitan Music Hall and Variety Theatre, 1913-1919(Palgrave, 2015) Featherstone, S.Challenging the enduring reputation of the metropolitan music hall as a site of jingoistic patriotism during the First World War, this chapter explores its theatre as the product of an unprecedented negotiation between a mature mass entertainment industry and the economic and political demands of total war. It focuses on three London halls - the Coliseum, the Oxford and the Empire. Their varied responses to such factors as government intervention, changing audiences and the competition of cinema, it suggests, traces both a resilient adaptation to new circumstances and the ultimate transformation of the music hall from an innovative cultural industry to a repository of national tradition.Item Metadata only Late Cuts: C. L. R. James, Cricket and Postcolonial England(2011-03) Featherstone, S.Focusing upon C. L. R. James's final cricket writings of the 1980s, the essay explores their place in his idiosyncratic Marxist cultural politics and argues that they address the question of the means by which a radical postcolonial Englishness might be made and expressed through sport.Item Metadata only The Mill girl and the cheeky chappie: British popular comedy and mass culture in the 1930s(2003-08-01) Featherstone, S.Item Metadata only Postcolonial Cultures(Edinburgh University Press, 2005) Featherstone, S.The book explores current topics in the field of postcolonial studies such as nationhood, hybridity and identity, globalism and localism, diasporas and the politics of gender and cultural diversity through a range of case studies drawn from music, literature, film and oral cultures, as well as issues of tourism, land and representations of the body. Its geographical range includes Britain, India the English-speaking Caribbean, Ireland, South Africa and Australasia.Item Metadata only Postcolonialism and Popular Cultures(Oxford University Press, 2013) Featherstone, S.Noting the general neglect of popular cultures in contemporary postcolonial studies, the chapter uses case studies drawn from Kenyan athletics in the 1950s and Jamaican music of the 1970s and 1990s to explore the complex political engagements of colonial and postcolonial body cultures and oral performances. It argues that the cultures embodied by the runners Lazaro Chepkwony and Nyandika Maiyoro and by the musicians Bob Marley and Buju Banton show the capacity of such performances to generate theory as well as to be objects of theorizing and illustrate the cross-disciplinary dialogues necessary to postcolonialism both as a field of academic study and of popular experience.Item Metadata only Spiritualism as Popular Performance in the 1930s: The Dark Theatre of Helen Duncan(2011-05) Featherstone, S.The essay examines the strange, illicit performances of the medium Helen Duncan as a way of re-assessing British popular theatre of the 1930s and 1940s. By providing intimate, emotionally-fulfilling theatre for her audiences, it argues that Duncan continued established popular performative practices whilst at the same time posing radical questions about the limits and meanings of the representation of class and the female body.Item Metadata only Sport and the performative body in the early work of C.L.R. James(2015-04) Featherstone, S.The essay examines four major texts that are associated with C.L.R. James’s residence in Nelson, Lancashire, during 1932–1933 – Minty Alley (1936), The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932), ‘The Greatest of All Bowlers: An Impressionist Sketch of S.F. Barnes’ (1932) and Cricket and I (1933), written with Learie Constantine. Arguing that they form a distinctive group rather than a preparatory phase of James’s writing, it focuses upon the dialogic relationship between their various genres and upon their shared concern with the colonised and performative body. Minty Alley, completed before James’s emigration, establishes his interest in the inscription of colonial legacies that delimit the possibilities of indigenous Trinidadian social and economic development, a predicament that informs the explicitly political analysis of the island’s governance in Captain Cipriani. The two later ‘Nelson’ texts chart James’s use of Lancashire League cricket to develop parallel analyses of Caribbean and English class and racial categorisation and their resultant social exclusions. Using James’s portrayal of Sydney Barnes to explore the structures of professional cricket and traditions of English sports journalism, the essay suggests that the distinctive body culture of the League allowed James to establish an anti-colonial politics rooted in both Caribbean and English popular performance cultures.Item Metadata only Tramping: The Cult of the Vagabond in Early Twentieth-Century England(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) Featherstone, S.The figure of the tramp as a socially unconstrained aesthete occupied a distinctive position in the English cultural imagination of the early twentieth century. The writing of Edward Thomas and W. H. Davies and the painting of Paul Nash, as well as sub-genres of popular literature and journalism such as the rural travelogue, all contributed to the idealisation of the lone male wanderer in leisurely motion through the pre-First World War English landscapes. The figure even gave its name to a literary journal of the period, The Tramp (1910-11). Tracing some of those wanderings, the essay examines representations of tramping in the period, exploring its links to contemporary developments of national and regional representation through pastoral idioms. It also suggests the ways in which this characteristic performance of Edwardian and Georgian otium provides a vehicle for the expression of more contested national-cultural experience, heralding the more overtly political genres of social vagrancy made familiar by George Orwell and others in the 1930s.Item Metadata only Vestal Flirtations: The Performance of the Feminine in Late-Nineteenth-Century British Music Hall(2005) Featherstone, S.The essay explores the role of women performers in late nineteenth-century music hall by developing a theory of performative flirtation. It argues that the gendered dynamics of serio-comic modes such as those performed by Vesta Victoria and Marie Lloyd and of the male impersonations of Vesta Tilley provide materials to combat the routines of gender representation current in the 'legitimate' theatres of the period.Item Metadata only Women's Poetry of the First and Second World Wars(Oxford University Press, 2007) Featherstone, S.The chapter explores the ways in which the verse of Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy and E. J. Scovell challenge canonic expectations of the content of war poetry and of the political role of the war poet.