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25 July 2006
Tuesday 25 July 2006 11:30-12:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Jarvis Cocker, one of many notable pop musicians to have experienced an art school training, explores the connections between British art schools and pop.
British art wouldn't have developed the way it did without the lively influence of urban pop subcultures, from teddy boys and rock to punk and rave. And the music would never have been so quirky and individual without artists who decided to try their hand at pop - a process that began with the jazz revivalists of the early 1950s.
