[ANPPOM-Lista] northern soul: 3 documentários

[Carlos Palombini]

*Northern Soul: Keeping The Faith,* The Culture Show, BBC 2, 25 September
2013

"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."

http://youtu.be/JMtaEASd2LI

*Wigan Casino*, documentário de 1977 (Granada, série This England)

http://youtu.be/TbEuq54FcBg

*Northern Soul: Living for the Weekend*, BBC 4 Documentary, 2014

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
http://youtu.be/1P9bNEwbvNU

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carlos palombini
professor de musicologia ufmg
professor colaborador ppgm-unirio
ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini <http://goo.gl/KMV98I>
www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2
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