My Life as a Northern Soul Boy- The Guardian
My Life as a Northern Soul Boy- The Guardian
This article is about someone describing their time involved in the Northern Soul scene.
Quoted from the article:
- "They do not make eye contact with girls. In fact they do not make eye contact with anything nearer than the horizon. They do the splits. They spin around, knocking bottles of Tizer out of the hands of anyone who gets too close. They are dancing to northern soul. By the next week so was I."
- "I would soon team up with a mentor to learn the subculture: how to dance, where to buy the widest trousers, the supremacy of the OKeh record label and the number of durophet capsules you could take without ending up in casualty."
- "I knew what I was part of: subcultural revolt on a scale no other youth scene at the time came close to."
- "Today you would call northern soul an act of curation."
- "When suddenly the band’s trumpet player starts screaming out the top note of a major seventh chord, which never stops. It still has the power, 35 years after I first heard it, to make me want to do a handstand."
- "We were using the black industrial music of the late 1960s to say something about our white industrial lives in the 1970s. And we were using fashion, as the Mods had done before us, to make a statement about what looking good should mean."
- "So if the first line of northern soul’s credo was “we love the music of black America”, the second was “we love the fashions of Milan”. Regretfully, the third was “we love the products of the pharmaceutical industry”."
- "If northern soul makes a comeback with this film it will probably be spectacular and brief."
- "Got fed up with northern soul when it refused to move on."
- "I had no more need to go to a dance club to experience rebellion."
This article talks about the impact that the new Northern Soul film has hopefully made. It describes how this makes people appreciate the era of Northern Soul. It gives information of what the scene consisted of and how it helped people be themselves. It was a rebellion stage for some people but as time went on and it didn't develop further it encouraged people to find a new style of music that allows them to rebel.
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