<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Northern Soul: Keeping The Faith,</i> The Culture Show, BBC 2, 25 September 2013<br><br>"Há algo estranhamente romântico em jovens negros desconhecidos de
cidades sem esperanças dos Estados Unidos fazerem esses discos que então
se comunicam através do tempo e do espaço com jovens brancos de cidades
igualmente sem esperanças na Grã-Bretanha."<br><br><a href="http://youtu.be/JMtaEASd2LI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/JMtaEASd2LI</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Wigan Casino</i>, documentário de 1977 (Granada, série This England)<br><br><a href="http://youtu.be/TbEuq54FcBg">http://youtu.be/TbEuq54FcBg</a><br><br><i>Northern Soul: Living for the Weekend</i>, BBC 4 Documentary, 2014<br><br><div class="">The northern soul phenomenon was the most exciting
underground British club movement of the 1970s. At its highpoint,
thousands of disenchanted white working class youths across the north of
England danced to<span class=""><span class="">
obscure, mid-60s Motown-inspired sounds until the sun rose. A dynamic
culture of fashions, dance moves, vinyl obsession and much more grew up
around this - all fuelled by the love of rare black American soul music
with an express-train beat. </span></span><p class="">Through
vivid first-hand accounts and rare archive footage, this film charts
northern soul's dramatic rise, fall and re-birth. It reveals the scene's
roots in the mod culture of the 1960s and how key clubs like
Manchester's Twisted Wheel and Sheffield's Mojo helped create the
prototype that would blossom in the next decade. </p><p class="">By
the early 1970s a new generation of youngsters in the north were
transforming the old ballrooms and dancehalls of their parents'
generation into citadels of the northern soul experience, creating a
genuine alternative to mainstream British pop culture. This was decades
before the internet, when people had to travel great distances to enjoy
the music they felt so passionate about. </p><p class="">Set
against a rich cultural and social backdrop, the film shows how the
euphoria and release that northern soul gave these clubbers provided an
escape from the bleak reality of their daily lives during the turbulent
1970s. After thriving in almost total isolation from the rest of the UK,
northern soul was commercialized and broke nationwide in the second
half of the 70s. But just as this happened, the once-healthy rivalry
between the clubs in the north fell apart amidst bitter in-fighting over
the direction the scene should go. </p><p class="">Today,
northern soul is more popular than ever, but it was back in the 1970s
that one of the most fascinating and unique British club cultures rose
to glory. Contributors include key northern soul DJs like Richard
Searling, Ian Levine, Colin Curtis, Kev Roberts, alongside Lisa
Stansfield, Norman Jay, Pete Waterman, Marc Almond, Peter Stringfellow
and others.</p>
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