Young soul rebels
Subtitle: a personal history of Northern soul
By: Stuart Cosgrove
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781846973932
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Youth; Social life and customs; Soul music; Popular music; Wigan Casino; History and criticism; Subculture; History
Description: "'Young Soul Rebels' is the intimate story of Britian'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 the 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."--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes index.

"Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music [Book] Prize 2017"--Page [4] of cover.