Folk Opposition

By Alex Niven

For David Cameron and 'Big Society' Tories, folk culture means organic food, nu-folk pop music, and pastoral myths of Englishness. Meanwhile, postmodern liberal culture teaches us that talking about a singular 'folk' is reductive at best, neo-fascist at worst. But what is being held in check by this consensus against the possibility of a unified, oppositional, populist identity taking root in modern Britain? Folk Opposition explores a renewed contemporary divide between rulers and ruled, between a powerful elite and a disempowered populace. Using a series of examples, from folk music to football supporters' trusts, from Raoul Moat to Ridley Scott, it argues that anti-establishment populism remains a powerful force in British culture, asserting that the left must recapture this cultural territory from the far right and begin to rebuild democratic representation from the bottom up.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780990324
• ISBN13: 9781780990323
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Zero Books
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.3"