On Brandon Hill: Popular Culture in Bristol since World War Two
By Nick Gilbert
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The first ever comprehensive history of post-war Bristolian culture, On Brandon Hill spans the years 1945 to 2020 and covers all the major art forms for which the West Country city is famous – music, TV, animation, street art – as well as its less celebrated contributions to film, theatre, literature, fine art etc. The major players - Aardman, Banksy, Massive Attack, the Arnolfini, Adge Cutler, Angela Carter, Cary Grant, Peter Nichols, Richard Long, The Young Ones, Little Britain – are all present and correct. At the same time, On Brandon Hill shows how “ordinary” Bristolians have not only enjoyed but actively contributed to the local arts scene over a period of seven and a half decades. Weaving family history, personal memory and a gurt big dollop of West Country humour into a gigantic cultural tapestry, the book creates what Ben Slater, editor of 90s Bristol arts magazine Entropy, describes as “a great rush of stories-within-stories, the non-fiction One Hundred Years of Solitude of the Bristol literary, filmic and musical under/overgrounds....”
Nick Gilbert
I was born in Bristol in 1964. I have been, at various times, a film student (Polytechnic of Central London, Bristol University and National Film School) actor, DJ, journalist, book reviewer, assistant editor on countless documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 and, since the turn of the millennium, a lecturer and teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages in London (Morley College and Westminster University).
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