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    Cool Britannia refers to the contemporary culture of the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s associated with Tony Blair's New Labour government. The term was coined in the late 1990s after Newsweek described London as the "coolest capital city" but had originally been used as a song title in 1967. It referred to the fashionable London music scene of the 1990s including bands like Blur and Oasis but lost popularity by 1998 as many grew tired of the phrase. Similar terms for Welsh and Scottish culture like "Cool Cymru" and "Cool Caledonia" were also coined but never gained widespread use.

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    Cool Britannia refers to the contemporary culture of the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s associated with Tony Blair's New Labour government. The term was coined in the late 1990s after Newsweek described London as the "coolest capital city" but had originally been used as a song title in 1967. It referred to the fashionable London music scene of the 1990s including bands like Blur and Oasis but lost popularity by 1998 as many grew tired of the phrase. Similar terms for Welsh and Scottish culture like "Cool Cymru" and "Cool Caledonia" were also coined but never gained widespread use.

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    Cool Britannia refers to the contemporary culture of the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s associated with Tony Blair's New Labour government. The term was coined in the late 1990s after Newsweek described London as the "coolest capital city" but had originally been used as a song title in 1967. It referred to the fashionable London music scene of the 1990s including bands like Blur and Oasis but lost popularity by 1998 as many grew tired of the phrase. Similar terms for Welsh and Scottish culture like "Cool Cymru" and "Cool Caledonia" were also coined but never gained widespread use.

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    PRUEBAS ACCESO UNIVERSIDAD + 25

    Cool Britannia

    Cool Britannia is a term used in some media to describe the contemporary culture
    of the United Kingdom, coined in the mid-1990s and closely associated with the
    "New Labour" government of Tony Blair. It is a pun on the title of the patriotic
    song "Rule Britannia".

    The phrase "Cool Britannia" was first used in 1967 as a song title by the Bonzo
    Dog Doo Dah Band, but there is no connection between that usage and the modern
    coining of the term. This seems to have arisen from the description of London in
    Newsweek in late 1996 as "coolest capital city on the planet." The phrase was
    coined shortly after and widely used in the media and in advertising. The election
    of Blair's government in 1997 on a platform of modernisation and with Blair as a
    relatively young Prime Minister gave the idea fresh currency. (There is a strong
    parallel between this and the catch-phrase "Swinging London" during the early
    years of Harold Wilson's Labour government.)

    To the extent that it had any real meaning, "Cool Britannia" referred to the brief
    fashionable London scene, 1990s bands such as Blur, Oasis, and later The Spice
    Girls, fashion designers and magazines. By 1998 The Economist was commenting
    that "many people are already sick of the phrase," and by 2000 it was being used
    mainly in a mocking or ironic way.

    Similar terms for Wales and Scotland, "Cool Cymru" and "Cool Caledonia"
    respectively, were coined but had next to no currency whatsoever and to this day
    most people have never heard of them.

    "Cool Britannia" was also a registered trade mark for one of Ben & Jerry's ice-
    creams (vanilla with strawberries and chocolate-covered shortbread), designed
    for the British market.

    Questions
    1. What does “Cool Britannia” describe?
    2. When was the Term invented?
    3. Did the term first appear in a song?
    4. Which magazine have this term arisen recently?
    5. What did they want to show with this Term?
    6. When did it start to refer to London bands?
    7. Did people like this sentence?
    8. Which were the similar Terms in Wales and Scotland?
    9. What do English people also call with these words?
    10. Had you ever listened to this term before?

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