Sounds Northern

Popular Music, Culture and Place in England's North ISBN: 9781781795705 (hb) edited by Ewa Mazierska 9781781795712 (pb)

DESCRIPTION: PRICE: The North of England is regarded as a region economically and culturally lagging behind the South $100.00 (hb) of England. However, this situation does not refer to popular music in which the North has had an $29.95 (pb) influence which is comparable to that of London. Many bands and performers coming from the North, including the Beatles, the Animals, Herman's Hermit, the Smiths, the Happy Mondays, the PUBLICATION DATE: Fall, Joy Division, New Order, Pulp and Oasis belong to most popular and influential pop-rock 01 February 2018 (hb) musicians in the world. The North has also been the home to some particular dance scenes 01 February 2018 (pb) including Northern Soul, the 'Madchester' acid house, scenes and hip hop and scenes. BINDING: This collection presents some of the less well known facets of popular music in the North of Hardback & Paperback England, examining how popular music reflected on various aspects of the North, such as its economy and architecture and how it impacted on self- and external perception of the North. It SIZE: assumes that understandings of the English North vary and its geography has more to do with 6 x9 imagined rather than empirical communities. The North can be seen as being defined against an England epitomised by London and as an area reflecting the most salient features of England as a PAGES: whole. Specific chapters discuss topics such as the music scenes in Manchester, Liverpool, Hull and 256 Sheffield, music festivals and careers of some musicians connected with the North such as MC Tunes and Bugzy Malone. Written in a jargon-free language, it should be of interest to everybody ILLUSTRATIONS: interested in music of the North. 20 photos

TABLE OF CONTENTS: PUBLISHER: Introduction Equinox Publishing Is It Really Grim Up North?: Popular Music in the North of England Ewa Mazierska IMPRINT: Equinox Publishing Part 1: Music, Regional Politics and Entrepreneurial Culture 1. Manpool, the Musical: Harmony and Counterpoint on the Lancashire Plain READER INTERESTS: Richard Witts Cultural Studies 2. Another Uniquely Mancunian Offering?: Un-Convention and the Intermediation of Music Culture Music and Place Paul Leslie Long, Jez Collins 3. 'They Say a Town is Just a Town, Full Stop, but What do They Know?': Architecture, Urbanism and Pop in Sheffield Owen Hatherley

Part 2: Pop-Rock Soundscapes, Scenes and Artists 4. 'I Thought I Heard That up North Whistle Blow': African American Blues Performance in the North of England Tom Attah 5. The Contrasting Soundscapes of Hull and London in David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Peter Atkinson 6. Hard Floors, Harsh Sounds and the Northern Anti-Festival: Futurama 1979-1983 Ian Trowell 7. Scrap Value: Mods, Invisible Britain and the Edge of the North Brian Baker

Part 3: Hip Hop and Grime 8. Manchester Hip Hop Adam de Paor-Evans 9. The Missing Star of MC Tunes Les Gillon, Ewa Mazierska 10. Hashtag 0161: Did Bugzy Malone put Manny on the map? Kamila Rymajdo

CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES: Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include Relocating Popular Music (Palgrave, 2015), edited with Georgina Gregory, From Self- Fulfillment to Survival of the Fittest: Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present (Berghahn, 2015) and Falco and Beyond: Neo Nothing Post of All (Equinox, 2014).