Popular Music in Leeds

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This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in Leeds - developed from the work of interdisciplinary scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition “Sounds of Our City” and built upon contemporary research. Leeds has rich musical histories and heritage, a long tradition of vibrant music venues, nightclubs, dance halls, pubs and other sites of musical entertainment.



The city has spawned crooners, folk singers, punks, post- punks, Goths, DJs, popstars, rappers and indie rockers, yet – with a few exceptions - Leeds has not been studied for its scenes in ways that other UK cities have. In ways that the chapters explore, Leeds’ popular music exemplifies and informs understandings of broader cultural and urban changes – both in Britain and across wider global contexts – of the social and historical significance of music as mass media; music and migration; music, racialisation and social equity; industrial decline, de-industrialisation, neoliberalism and the rise of the 24-hour city. Charting moments of stark musical politicisation and de-politicisation, while concomitantly tracing arguments about “heritagising” popular music within discussions about music’s “place” in museums and in the urban economy, this book contributes to debates about why music matters, has mattered, and continues to matter in Leeds, and beyond.

 

List of Figures ix

Acknowledgements xi

Foreword xiii

Jez Willis

Introducing Leeds 1

Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, Kitty Ross and Paul Thompson

 

PART 1. PLACES OF LEEDS’ POPULAR MUSIC 13

1. Dance and Drink the Fenton: Fighting for Territory in Leeds’ Culture Wars 15

Rio Goldhammer

2. When Mr Fox Met Kit Calvert, the Maker of Wensleydale Cheese: Constructing Yorkshireness in the Sixties Leeds Folk Scene 31

Karl Spracklen

3. Park Life: When Roundhay Went Pop 43

Peter Mills

4. ‘Everything Is Brilliant in Leeds’: Venues in the Leeds Indie Scene 1992–2012 57

Dan Lomax

5. Noise, Power Electronics and the No-Audience Underground: Place, Performance and Discourse in Leeds’ Experimental Music Scene 70

Theo Gowans, Phil Legard and Dave Procter

 

PART 2. PEOPLE: LEEDS’ MUSICAL COMMUNITIES AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES 85

6. La-Di-Dah: Some Thoughts on Jake Thackray and British Popular Culture 87

Stephen Wagg

7. Home Is Where the Music Is: Migrants and Belonging in Leeds 102

Jonathan Long

8. A Tale of Two Artists: Thinking Intersectionally About Women and Music in Leeds 117

Beccy Watson

9. Leeds Punk through a Feminist Lens 130

Mallory McGovern

10. Americana and Leeds: Narrating the American South with Northern Grit 144

Dave Robinson

 

PART 3. HISTORIES OF POPULAR MUSIC IN LEEDS 159

11. Leeds City Varieties in the 1950s and 1960s: Decline, Nudity and Nostalgia in the British Variety Industry 161

Dave Russell

12. The Evolution of DIY Venues as Dancing Spaces in Leeds from the 1940s to 2020s 176

Stuart Moss

13. Music of the Leeds West Indian Carnival 191

Danny Friar

14. Jazz in Leeds, 1940s–50s 205

Michael Meadowcroft

 

PART 4. POPULAR MUSIC HERITAGE, LEGACIES AND FUTURES 215

15. Sounds of Our City Exhibition: Music and Materiality in Leeds’ Abbey House Museum 217

Kitty Ross and Paul Thompson

16. Where You’re From and Where They’re At: Connecting Voices, Generations and Place to Create a Leeds Hip Hop Archive 235

Sarah Little and Alex Stevenson

17. A Splendid Time is Guaranteed for All: A Psychogeography of Leeds’ Popular Music Heritage 250

Brett Lashua and Paul Thompson

18. Music: Leeds – Supporting a Regionalized Music Sector and Scene 264

Paul Thompson and Sam Nicholls

 

Conclusion: Putting Popular Music in Leeds ‘On the Map’ 279

Brett Lashua, Paul Thompson, Kitty Ross and Karl Spracklen

Notes on Contributors 287

Index 299

Sujets

• Human Geography
• 20th Century
• Essays
• HISTORY
• MUSIC
• Popular music
• Sociology
• Multiple signal classification
• Index of urban studies articles
• History of classical music traditions
• Great Britain
• Cultural Studies
• Leeds
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 13 octobre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781789388077
• Langue: English

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