Deindustrialisation and Popular Music: Punk and ‘Post-Punk’ in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere (Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions)

The book is a comparative study of popular music cultures in 1980s Torino, Tampere, Manchester and Düsseldorf and their relation to the industrial city as imaginary, as heritage and as everyday reality. Popular music genres, such as hardcore punk, house, industrial, post-punk and heavy metal, share a common origin in 1980s decaying industrial cities. All these genres have been canonized and understood as "scores" for grey, gloomy, decaying urban industrial environments or for their evocation, but is there an organic relationship between de-industrialization and this kind of music production? Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Introduction: Metal on Metal 10 1 The Industrial City 28 2 A Genealogy of ‘Industrial City Music’ 52 3 Manchester 76 4 Düsseldorf 98 5 Torino 120 6 Tampere 146 7 Industrial Heritages 170 8 From Vanishing Mediator to Cultural Catalyst: Music, Space, and Place 186 Conclusion 198 References 206 Index 218 About the Author 222 "The book offers a new and unique point of view on industrial cities and their popular music cultures based on interdisciplinary research and methods"-- Provided by publisher