The Northern Soul Scene - Sarah Raine
Introduction
The Northern Soul Scene - Sarah Raine
Tim Wall [+]
Birmingham City University
Tim Wall is Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies at Birmingham City University.
Sarah Raine [+]
University College Dublin
Sarah Raine is SFI-IRC Pathway Fellow at University College Dublin. She is Co-Managing Editor of the journal Riffs, Editor of Jazz Research Journal, Book Series Editor of Icons of Pop Music and Music Industry Studies, Equinox Publishing and author of Authenticity and Belonging in the Northern Soul Scene (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Towards Gender Equality in the Music Industry (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and The Northern Soul Scene (Equinox Publishing, 2019).
Nicola Watchman Smith [+]
Teeside University
Dr Nicola Watchman Smith (PhD, PFHEA) is Deputy Director of Student Learning at Teesside University and a cultural sociologist and researcher. She has published widely on northern soul, including chapters in The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology (2009) and Ageing and Youth Cultures: Music, Style and Identity (2012).
Description
The introduction summarises the history of the Northern Soul scene and indicate examples of the blossoming contemporary interest scene’s past and present. It offers critical overview of academic research on the scene, linked to chapters in the books, and explain something of the ways that the scene has been communicated and represented over its forty-year history.