Sorry, I can't help but say hello and comment, as English/a BSP fan/Whovian since forever/interested by folklore.
I like the idea of saying: here we are. We're British. This is our culture. Come see; come add to it. Trying to have an identity that isn't polluted and perverted by bigots. And isn't afraid to be malleable. BSP say it well in Waving Flags.
There is an indie record label, Ghost Box, that draw on folklore, old weird fiction, and '70s tv for inspiration, though their music is folktronica (ish). They portray this slightly time-warped England, what might be called "nostalgia for the future". It's appealing aesthetically, I'm just not sure if it's a dig or some retro-romantic yearning. I'm wary of looking backwards overmuch. And more wary of cultural isolationism.
*constant mental self-checking*
Yes. Well said.
I wonder why (at least as a sub-culture, if not as a fictional genre) steampunk seems much bigger in the States than in Britain?
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I like the idea of saying: here we are. We're British. This is our culture. Come see; come add to it. Trying to have an identity that isn't polluted and perverted by bigots. And isn't afraid to be malleable. BSP say it well in Waving Flags.
There is an indie record label, Ghost Box, that draw on folklore, old weird fiction, and '70s tv for inspiration, though their music is folktronica (ish). They portray this slightly time-warped England, what might be called "nostalgia for the future". It's appealing aesthetically, I'm just not sure if it's a dig or some retro-romantic yearning. I'm wary of looking backwards overmuch. And more wary of cultural isolationism.
*constant mental self-checking*
Yes. Well said.
I wonder why (at least as a sub-culture, if not as a fictional genre) steampunk seems much bigger in the States than in Britain?
- Ash