Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain av Jason (Leeds Beckett University UK) Arday

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<P><EM>Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova</EM> attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool Britannia and the discourse which often encases the period by repositioning this phenomenon through an ethnic minority perspective.</P><P>In March 1997, the front page of the magazine <EM>Vanity Fair</EM> announced ¿London Swings! Again!¿ This headline was a direct reference to the swinging London of the 1960s ¿ the English capital which became the era-defining epicentre of the world for its burgeoning rock and pop music scene, with its daring new youth culture, and the boutique fashion houses of Carnaby Street captured most indelibly by the Mods, Rockers, and psychedelic hippies of the time. In the 1990s this renewed interest in the swinging 60s seemed to reinvigorate popular culture, after a global period in the 1980s which would see the collapse of traditional communism and the ending of Cold War, while ushering in the beginnings of a new technolo