Overview

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.

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Author:   Victoria Allen
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.546kg
ISBN:  

9781526174260

ISBN 10:   152617426
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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 Index -- .

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Victoria C. Allen is a lecturer in English, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Kiel.

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