Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives

ISBN-13: 9781138501980 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 108 str.

Gabby Riches; Karl Spracklen; Spencer Swain

Opis

The book aims to re-theorise ‘the North’ and Northern culture and to highlight the ways in which constructions of Northernness and Northern culture are constituted alongside other identities. It was first published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

Spis treści

Introduction: Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives  Part I: Theorising Northernness  1. Theorising northernness and northern culture: the north of England, northern Englishness, and sympathetic magic  2. ‘Singing acts’ from the deep North: critical perspectives on northern exotics, contemporary ethnic music and language preservation in Sámi communities  Part II: Researching Northernness  3. Everyday leisure and Northernness in Mass Observation’s Worktown 1937–1939  4. ‘Northernness’, gender and Manchester’s creative industries  5. Speaking for herself: Andrea Dunbar and Bradford on film  6. Feeling Northern: ‘heroic women’ in Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley (BBC One, 2014—)  7. Strangers of the north: South Asians, cricket and the culture of ‘Yorkshireness’

O autorze

Gabby Riches is an independent scholar based in Canada. She completed a Ph.D. on gender in the extreme metal scenes in Leeds, UK. Karl Spracklen is a Professor of Music, Leisure and Culture at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His Ph.D. researched rugby league and northernness in England. Spencer Swain is a Lecturer at York St. Johns University, UK. His Ph.D. focused on the leisure lives of young British-Somali men in Sheffield, UK.