Gildart / Catterall Keeping the faith

A history of northern soul
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5097-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s. Using fanzines, diaries, letters, and oral testimony it presents a vivid insight into the scene. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of the connections between class and music in post-war Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gildart, Keith

Catterall, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1 Mods, Motown and ‘rare soul’ in northern England

2 In the days before Wigan

3 The beating heart of soul: Wigan Casino

4 Soul explosion, fragmentation and decline

5 The chosen few: the experience and practice of northern
soul

6 Locating northern soul: place, class and identity

7 Race, gender, sexuality and the politics of northern soul

8 Going back and checking it out: myth, legacy, history and
nostalgia

Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Catterall is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton. He has written widely on British labour, social and cultural history.

Keith Gildart is Professor of Labour and Social History at the University of Wolverhampton and co-founder of the Subcultures Network. He is the author of Images of England through Popular Music: Class, Youth and Rock ‘n’ Roll 1955-1976 and an editor of the Dictionary of Labour Biography.