Duration:
30 minutes
Northern
Soul marked the birth of late-night dance culture in Britain. Paul Mason,
economics journalist and once a regular at the famous 'all-nighters' at Wigan
Casino, discovers the origin of this underground music scene and why it
continues to inspire such devotion.
Many of
the songs that eventually became Northern Soul classics were once rejected or
unreleased. Recorded in the 1960s by African-American artists attempting to
replicate the successful Motown sound, these discarded tracks would later be rediscovered
and revered by white working-class dancers and music fans in the north of
England.
Paul
Mason tells the extraordinary story of Northern Soul and the dance culture that
sprang up around it, influencing musicians, choreographers and filmmakers and
growing into a global phenomenon.
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