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Northern Soul Lecture

Northern soul

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in the Northern England in the late 1960’s from the British mod scene, based in a particular style of black American soul music. Especially from the mid 1960’s, with a heavy beat and fast tempo.

Soul music is typically upbeat style that was particularly popular in parts of northern England during 1960’s to 1970’s.

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·      Farah

·      What did a mod look like?

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Mod is a subculture that began in London in 1958 and spread throughout Great Britain and elsewhere, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries and continues today on a smaller scale. The original mod scene is associated with amphetamine-fueled all-night dancing at clubs.

Rockers generally favoured 1950’s rock and roll, mostly by artists like Elvis Presely, Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent. Mods listened to 1960’s ska music, soul and R&B, as well as British bands such as The Who, The Yardbirds and The Kinks.

Founded in ‘87

Skin heads against racial prejudice are anti-racist skinheads who oppose no fascists and other political racists, particularly if those racists identify themselves as skinheads.

80’s causal/terrace look

The police were still looking for the Dr Martens type skinhead look, casual movement changed all this allowing the firms to slip off the radar.

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·      Gloria Jones

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The human league is an English, synth pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977, same year Soft Cell formed but in Leeds. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to virgin records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album Dare 1981.