Compost city
underground music, collapsoscapes and urban regeneration
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v4i2.145Keywords:
alternative music, punk, urban design, urban regenerationAbstract
This paper looks at the recent history of Hulme, Manchester, which during the 1980s was home to many of the most successful bands of the post-punk era. This flourishing of underground music was not planned, however. It emerged through a complex network of urban forces, some physical, some social. The paper develops the concept of the ‘compost city’, a laissez-faire approach to the management of urban culture which is oppositional to the current vogue for more hands-on cultural industries management.
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Gaskell, M. 2006 [1848]. Mary Barton. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Giradet, H. 2006. Creating Sustainable Cities. London: Green Books.
Hayes, C., ed. 1993. Our Blitz: Red Skies over Manchester. Bolton: Aurora.
HMSO. 1995. Manchester: 50 Years of Change. London: HMSO.
Kay, J. P. 1832. The Moral and Physical Conditions of the Working Classes Employed in Cotton Manufacture in Manchester. Manchester.
Keeffe, G. P. 2008. Means Means Means: Adventures in the Technoscape. Manchester: MSA Press.
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Manchester City Council and Hulme Regeneration Limited. 1994. Rebuilding the City: A Guide to Development in Hulme. Manchester.
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Morrissey, S. 1985. ‘Never Turn your Back on Mother Earth’. Blitz 31 (May): 9–12.
Nicholas, R. 1945. The City of Manchester Plan. Manchester: Jarrold and Son.
Robb, J. 2008. The North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City 1976–1996. London: Aurum Press.
—2009. Death to Trad Rock. London: Cherry Red Books.
Rogers, R., and A. Power. 2000. Cities for a Small Country. London: Faber and Faber.
Published
2010-11-16
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Articles
How to Cite
Keeffe, G. (2010). Compost city: underground music, collapsoscapes and urban regeneration. Popular Music History, 4(2), 145-159. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v4i2.145
