"Not Necessarily 'English Music':
Britain's Second Golden Age"

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After the first installment of Cool Britannia beguiled the 1960s with its peculiar conflation of Pop, Art, Fashion and Politics, musical experimentation flourished in the U.K. Styles of improvisation, minimalism, electronic music, performance art, political music and "amateur" music grew out of British art schools, universities and urban villages; styles neither as self-important as those of Europe nor as blithely technocratic as those of North America -- a peculiarly "English Music" (and Scottish and Welsh). Some practitioners became well known and influential artists outside of the U.K. (Cornelius Cardew, Michael Nyman, Derek Bailey), while others have remained far too unrecognized abroad (Christopher Hobbs, Ivor Cutler, Ranulph Glanville).

This volume of Leonardo Music Journal highlights observers and participants who have contributed their accounts of this latest "Golden Age" of British Music.

LMJ11 Table of Contents

Introduction to LMJ11 by Nicolas Collins

Compact Disc Table of Contents

Introduction to LMJ11 CD by David Toop

LMJ11 CD Contributor Notes

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