Young Soul Rebels A Personal History of Northern Soul

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781846973932
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Imprint: Polygon
Pub date:
DEWEY: 781.64409427
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: vii, 312
Weight: 300g
Height: 129mm
Width: 196mm
Spine width: 24mm