Popular Music in Leeds

Brett Lashua teaches sociology of media and education at University College London (UCL). He has worked with schools, community centres, musicians and arts organizations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom to address questions of youth inequalities, racialized borderlands and urban place-making.Karl Spracklen is a professor of sociology of leisure and culture in Leeds School of Sciences at Leeds Beckett University. His research ranges across leisure studies, popular music studies and metal music studies, though with a sociological lens. He is currently the editor-in-chief and the founder of International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, published by Springer. Spracklen was also the co-founder and first editor of its journal Metal Music Studies, published by Intellect.Kitty Ross is Curator of Leeds History and Social History, Leeds Museums and Galleries. exhibitions. She hasbeen involved in two major museum redevelopment projects, that of Abbey House Museum (1998–2001) and Leeds City Museum (which reopened in 2008). Beyond the museum, Kitty has been a member of the Sheffield Bach Society since 1992 and is currently their treasurer.Paul Thompson is a professional recording engineer, educator and Reader in popular music at Leeds Beckett University. He is the author of Creativity in the Recording Studio: Alternative Takes (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) and co-author of Paul McCartney and His Creative Practice: The Beatles and Beyond (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) with Professor Phillip McIntyre.

• List of Figures ixAcknowledgements xiForeword xiiiJez WillisIntroducing Leeds 1Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, Kitty Ross and Paul Thompson PART 1. PLACES OF LEEDS’ POPULAR MUSIC 131. Dance and Drink the Fenton: Fighting for Territory in Leeds’ Culture Wars 15Rio Goldhammer2. When Mr Fox Met Kit Calvert, the Maker of Wensleydale Cheese: Constructing Yorkshireness in the Sixties Leeds Folk Scene 31Karl Spracklen3. Park Life: When Roundhay Went Pop 43Peter Mills4. ‘Everything Is Brilliant in Leeds’: Venues in the Leeds Indie Scene 1992–2012 57Dan Lomax5. Noise, Power Electronics and the No-Audience Underground: Place, Performance and Discourse in Leeds’ Experimental Music Scene 70Theo Gowans, Phil Legard and Dave Procter PART 2. PEOPLE: LEEDS’ MUSICAL COMMUNITIES AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES 856. La-Di-Dah: Some Thoughts on Jake Thackray and British Popular Culture 87Stephen Wagg7. Home Is Where the Music Is: Migrants and Belonging in Leeds 102Jonathan Long8. A Tale of Two Artists: Thinking Intersectionally About Women and Music in Leeds 117Beccy Watson9. Leeds Punk through a Feminist Lens 130Mallory McGovern10. Americana and Leeds: Narrating the American South with Northern Grit 144Dave Robinson PART 3. HISTORIES OF POPULAR MUSIC IN LEEDS 15911. Leeds City Varieties in the 1950s and 1960s: Decline, Nudity and Nostalgia in the British Variety Industry 161Dave Russell12. The Evolution of DIY Venues as Dancing Spaces in Leeds from the 1940s to 2020s 176Stuart Moss13. Music of the Leeds West Indian Carnival 191Danny Friar14. Jazz in Leeds, 1940s–50s 205Michael Meadowcroft PART 4. POPULAR MUSIC HERITAGE, LEGACIES AND FUTURES 21515. Sounds of Our City Exhibition: Music and Materiality in Leeds’ Abbey House Museum 217Kitty Ross and Paul Thompson16. Where You’re From and Where They’re At: Connecting Voices, Generations and Place to Create a Leeds Hip Hop Archive 235Sarah Little and Alex Stevenson17. A Splendid Time is Guaranteed for All: A Psychogeography of Leeds’ Popular Music Heritage 250Brett Lashua and Paul Thompson18. Music: Leeds – Supporting a Regionalized Music Sector and Scene 264Paul Thompson and Sam Nicholls Conclusion: Putting Popular Music in Leeds ‘On the Map’ 279Brett Lashua, Paul Thompson, Kitty Ross and Karl SpracklenNotes on Contributors 287Index 299