ABSTRACT
The suggestion that British pop sensibility is essentially suburban is hardly new. I have previously traced the suburban thread that runs through England’s musical Bohemia from jazz to blues to rock, while Jon Savage has explored the suburban secrets of punk and Sarah Thornton described the suburban routes of rave. In England suburbanism is, it seems, equally implicated in folk revival and indie ideology, and what is the Last Night of the Proms if not a celebration of a suburban night out? 1
