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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
