came across this interesting article yesterday after googling "twisted wheel" in order to figure out what 3underscore was talking about on another thread that i had initially started to promote my own private agenda
however, i think this might well be of interest to entire dissensus community, which is the question of 60s mod culture through northern soul through madchester and the commercial hegemony of 90s club culture
here's the article
and here's some questions
(1) were punk and post-punk nearly so significant as northern soul in preparing the ground for uk house and rave?
(2) did the u.s. have anything like a mod-into-northern soul tradition? and if not, does this lack explain the failure of white america to create revolutionary dance music? ------- i.e., white america had a folk/rockers divide, not a rockers/mods divide (and though nyc, chicago, sf had mixed party scenes from the 70s forward, these seem not to have had anything like the profile of northern soul in the north of england) (although jazz was, i believe, a mixed scene going back to 20s -- so am i perhaps overstating the segregation of the american music experience?)
(3) is there anything comparable to northern soul today in england?
(4) or did the commercial hegemony of "clubbing" in the 90s kill the mod tradition, such that we can now say that it lasted from 1960 to 2000?
however, i think this might well be of interest to entire dissensus community, which is the question of 60s mod culture through northern soul through madchester and the commercial hegemony of 90s club culture
here's the article
and here's some questions
(1) were punk and post-punk nearly so significant as northern soul in preparing the ground for uk house and rave?
(2) did the u.s. have anything like a mod-into-northern soul tradition? and if not, does this lack explain the failure of white america to create revolutionary dance music? ------- i.e., white america had a folk/rockers divide, not a rockers/mods divide (and though nyc, chicago, sf had mixed party scenes from the 70s forward, these seem not to have had anything like the profile of northern soul in the north of england) (although jazz was, i believe, a mixed scene going back to 20s -- so am i perhaps overstating the segregation of the american music experience?)
(3) is there anything comparable to northern soul today in england?
(4) or did the commercial hegemony of "clubbing" in the 90s kill the mod tradition, such that we can now say that it lasted from 1960 to 2000?
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