Keith Gildart explores how popular music influenced social identities and working-class cultures in England. Focusing on genres like rock 'n' roll, rhythm & blues, punk, mod subculture, and glam rock, he highlights its role in reflecting and shaping societal crises.
This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s. Using fanzines, diaries, letters, and oral testimony it presents a vivid insight into the scene. -- .