Full Description
Industrial memory in North-East England examines how the region's industrial myth and memory have been articulated in the renegotiation of northernness. The book offers a critical contextualisation of the concept of northernness and the English North, and introduces the concept of the PopCultural Portfolio, a mixed-methods approach to conjunctural analysis in cultural and memory studies.
The book provides six richly illustrated case studies to demonstrate the practical application of cultural studies' expansive and inclusive understanding of texts, bringing together materials from North East football, folk, indie and exhibition culture to establish how the North East's industrial past continues to be remembered and functionalised as industrial memory. In turn, the conjunctural analysis demonstrates how industrial memory is articulated and mythologised as north(east)erness in contemporary popular culture.
Contents
Introduction: a squiy inta this bewk
1 PopCultural portfolio: a cultural studies methodology
2 Hit the North: delineating the English north and north(-east)ernness
I Ha'way the lads: football culture in the North East
3 First half: industrial memory in football club paraphernalia
4 Second half: mythologising industrial memory in Sunderland 'til I Die
II Sounds of the past in the present: music-making memory in the North East
5 A-side: remembering shipbuilding in North East folk music
6 B-side: recollection in post-industrial indie-pop
III Exhibiting the North East: future visions built on industrial memory
7 Exhibit I: Great Exhibition of the North
8 Exhibit II: Mackems as makers
Coda: industrial memory in England's North East as negotiating northernness
Bibliography
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