Young Soul Rebels (eBook)

A Personal History of Northern Soul

Stuart Cosgrove (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
285 Seiten
Polygon (Verlag)
978-0-85790-894-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The Ultimate History of Northern Soul.
Young Soul Rebels is the intimate story of Britain's most fascinating underground music scene – northern soul. Stuart Cosgrove has been a well-known collector on the scene for decades, and here he takes the reader on a rollercoaster journey to the heart of this secret society: the iconic clubs – The Twisted Wheel, The Torch, Wigan Casino and the Blackpool Mecca, the infamous bootleggers, and the DJs and crate-digging collectors who voyaged to America to unearth rare sounds.
The book sweeps across fifty years of social and cultural history, taking in the rise of amphetamine culture, the brutal policing of the youth scene, the north–south divide, the rise of Thatcherism and the miners' strike, and concludes with a picture of northern soul today: as popular now as it was in its 1970s heyday.

Autor

Stuart Cosgrove originally from Perth, was a fanzine writer on the northern soul scene before joining the black music paper Echoes, as a staff writer. He became media editor with the NME and a feature writer for a range of newspapers and magazines. In 2005 he was named Broadcaster of the Year in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards and in 2012 he won numerous awards including a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award for Channel 4's coverage of the London Paralympics 2012. He is the author of Young Soul Rebels (Polygon, 2016).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.5.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: 100 Club • all-nighters • Amphetamine • BAFTA • bootlegging • Clubs • collapse of the industrial north • collector • cult book • Detroit 67 • echoes • flamboyant characters • Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards • Golden Torch • Insider • London Paralympics • Manchester • miners’ strike • murders • music • music biography • Music History • New Technologies • NME • Northern Soul • north–south divide • Off the Ball • police raids • Rare • rare vinyl • secret society • Social History • Soul Music • soul music history • Stafford • Stoke • Stuart Cosgrove • Top of the World • Twisted Wheel • underground music scene • Wigan Casino • Yorkshire Ripper • Young Soul Rebels • Youth Culture
• ISBN-10: 0-85790-894-4 / 0857908944
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85790-894-0 / 9780857908940