ABSTRACT
It was as if Britpop held up a mirror to all that was quintessentially British, its musical influences impossible to conceal: the Mod movement (the Who, the Kinks, the Small Faces), 1970s glam (David Bowie, T.Rex, Roxy Music), punk and the New Wave (the Jam, the Buzzcocks, Wire, Madness, Squeeze, Elvis Costello), the Stone Roses, the Smiths, and, of course, the Beatles. At any rate Britpop’s crafty blend of style and coolness harked back to the late 1960s, reconstructing a national style of bonds and boundaries.
