Table of Contents

Introduction: Is It Really Grim Up North?: Popular Music in the North of England
Ewa Mazierska

Part 1: Music, Regional Politics and Entrepreneurial Culture
1. Manpool, the Musical: Harmony and Counterpoint on the Lancashire Plain
Richard Witts, Edge Hill University, Lancashire
2. Another Uniquely Mancunian Offering?: Un-Convention and the Intermediation of Music Culture and Place
Paul Long and Jez Collins, both at Birmingham City University
3. `They Say A Town Is Just A Town, Full Stop, But What Do They Know?': Architecture, Urbanism and Pop in Sheffield
Owen Hatherley, Independent scholar

Part 2: Pop-Rock Soundscapes, Scenes and Artists
4. `I Thought I Heard That up North Whistle Blow’: African American Blues Performance in the North of England
Tom Attah, Leeds College of Art
5. The Contrasting Soundscapes of Hull and London in David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Peter Atkinson, University of Central Lancashire
6. Hard Floors, Harsh Sounds and the Northern Anti-Festival: Futurama 1979-1983
Ian Trowell, University of Sheffield (PhD candidate)
7. Scrap Value: Sleaford Mods, Invisible Britain and the Edge of the North
Brian Baker, Lancaster University

Part 3: Hip Hop and Grime
8. Manchester Hip Hop
Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Central Lancashire
9. The Missing Star of MC Tunes
Les Gillon, University of Central Lancashire, and Ewa Mazierska
10. Hashtag 0161: Did Bugzy Malone put Manny on the map?
Kamila Rymajdo, Kingston University (PhD candidate)

About the Author

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include Relocating Popular Music (Palgrave, 2015), edited with Georgina Gregory, From Self- Fulfillment to Survival of the Fittest: Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present (Berghahn, 2015) and Falco and Beyond: Neo Nothing Post of All (Equinox, 2014).