'Northernness', gender and Manchester's creative industries
In: Journal for cultural research, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 45-59
ISSN: 1740-1666
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In: Journal for cultural research, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 45-59
ISSN: 1740-1666
In: Urban studies, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 488-490
ISSN: 1360-063X
In: Sociology compass, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 1165-1178
ISSN: 1751-9020
AbstractThis article uses Manchester (England) as a case study to examine some relationships between the city and the popular culture that emerges from, or seeks to represent, this city. We focus on post‐war popular culture that has been widely disseminated such as film, television and popular music. The article considers whether these examples of popular culture reflect wider urban, social and cultural change and discuss what impact this popular culture has had on changing the landscape and fortunes of the city. In particular, we discuss the case study of Manchester's popular culture in terms of ideas about place‐based identities and social class. We consider popular culture in terms of de‐industrialising Manchester through to regenerated Manchester. The paper concludes by discussing the possibility that the city centre of Manchester has become gentrified and considers the impact that this is having on popular culture.
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 1000-1001
ISSN: 1468-2427
In: Sociological research online, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 116-129
ISSN: 1360-7804
This paper explores the experiences of women in small cultural businesses and is based upon interviews with women working in a range of contexts in Manchester's popular music sector. The research seeks to promote wider consideration of women's roles in cultural production and consumption. We argue that it is necessary that experiences of production and consumption be understood as inter-related processes. Each part of this process is imbued with particular gender characteristics that can serve to reinforce existing patterns and hierarchies. We explore the ways in which female leisure and consumption patterns have been marginalised and how this in turn shapes cultural production. This process influences career choices but it is also reinforced through the integration of consumption into the cultural workplace. Practices often associated with the sector, such as the blurring of work and leisure and 'networking', appear to be understood and operated in significantly different ways by women. As cultural industries such as popular music are predicated upon the colonisation of urban space we explore the use of the city and the particular character of Manchester's music scene. We conclude that, despite the existence of highly contingent and individualised identities, significant gender power relations remain evident. These are particularly clear in discussion of the performative and sexualised aspects of the job.
In: Labour history review, Band 86, Heft 2, S. 271-292
ISSN: 1745-8188