Spinoza Manchester unspun

How a city got high on music
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6846-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city, from council leader Sir Richard Leese to Sir Alex Ferguson and Tony Wilson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spinoza, Andy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikerbiographien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: how a city got high on music page
Place names: a stranger’s guide
1 The city calls
2 A meeting in Moon Grove
3 Dirty old town
4 All the news not fit to print
5 A fiend dropping in
6 Left turn, U-turn
7 Village people and rock-star developers
8 Haçienda hitman
9 Cash E-conomy
10 Simply regeneration
11 Planet Hulme, city conversations
12 Suited, booted and branded
13 Manc mafia on the Med
14 PR potholes on the road to hell
15 Football, fashion and food
16 University challenge
17 The Haçienda must be built
18 The merchandising of memory
19 Pop and politics, Wilson and Burnham
20 Devolution and dissent
21 Who wants to live in a city without culture?
22 ‘Intention: To restore a sense of place’
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andy Spinozamoved to Manchester from London at eighteen and never looked back. An early member of the Haçienda, he reported on the city’s music scene for the NME and The Face. He founded alternative magazine City Life in 1983 and spent ten years as a gossip columnist for the Manchester Evening News. As boss of his own PR company, he promoted the dynamic post-industrial Manchester throughout the 2000s and 2010s. Married with three grown-up children, Andy lives in Stockport with his wife, Lynne.