Publisher's Synopsis
This traces the history of the alternative press in the Manchester region from 1967 to the present, from the early Underground papers such as 'Grass Eye' and 'Mole Express', through the emergence of listings periodicals such as 'New Manchester Review' and 'City Life', to the punk fanzines of the late 70s, and the wide variety of titles and formats which have been published independently since the 1980s. - - Robert Dickinson relates the history of these publications in Manchester to the movements and migrations of the personnel who worked on them, from magazine to magazine, and from the 'alternative' world to the mainstream, in an attempt to map the possible emergence of 'cultural intermediaries', contributing towards a 'new cultural infrastructure'. A fascinating Family Tree shows how the alternative press and its printing outlets formed and integrated, inter-related and networked. - - Most histories of the British alternative press have focused on the late 1960s and early 1970s only, and have concentrated on the national titles published in London. This book aims to redress the balance, using interviews with people who worked on the publications, and referring to contemporary cultural criticism.
