If you want a great review of modern class indicators from England, I recommend 'Watching the English', by Kate Fox http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watching-English-Hidden-Rules-Behaviour/dp/0340818867
It's a really fair review of modern British behaviour, written by an English woman, that is easy to read and funny for both English and 'expat' readers alike. I think you'd really like it, because what you study is culture, through music.
Its observations might have saved one of my jobs here, where I completely misread my manager and eventually left in great frustration.
The English moan about how 'there's no native culture anymore' but this lady demonstrates that there is a very strong shared culture, it's just not the one they think of when they think of 'culture'.
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Date: 2013-05-10 01:58 pm (UTC)http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watching-English-Hidden-Rules-Behaviour/dp/0340818867
It's a really fair review of modern British behaviour, written by an English woman, that is easy to read and funny for both English and 'expat' readers alike. I think you'd really like it, because what you study is culture, through music.
Its observations might have saved one of my jobs here, where I completely misread my manager and eventually left in great frustration.
The English moan about how 'there's no native culture anymore' but this lady demonstrates that there is a very strong shared culture, it's just not the one they think of when they think of 'culture'.