Authenticity and Belonging in the Northern Soul Scene

The Role of History and Identity in a Multigenerational Music Culture

By:

Sarah Raine

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music

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This book, which builds on a three-year immersive ethnographic study, argues that what scene participants do and say within the northern soul scene constitutes a claim to belong. For younger members, making claims to belong is problematic in a scene where dominant notions of authenticity held by insiders are rooted in a particular past: the places, people, events, and soundscapes of particular venues during the 1970s. In order to engage with this past, young men and women participate in a range of discursive practices. This book argues that these practices, and the ways they intersect and deviate from dominant notions of authenticity, represent shared and individual negotiations of the 'true soulie'. In doing so, it reveals the rich experiences of the younger generation of this multigenerational music scene, and the ways they establish a claim to belong to a scene first formed before they were born.

Author Biography:

Sarah Raine is a researcher at Edinburgh Napier, UK. She is also the co-Managing Editor for Riffs, a Book Series Editor for Equinox Publishing (Music Industry Studies and Icons of Pop Music) and the Review Editor for Popular Music History.

Release date Australia

June 30th, 2021

Author

Sarah Raine

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2020

Illustrations

2 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 207 p. 2 illus.

Pages

207

Series

Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music

ISBN-13

9783030413668

Product ID

35122421

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