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Metal on Merseyside

Music Scenes, Community and Locality

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Authors:
  1. Nedim Hassan

    1. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

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  • Explores the metal music scenes in the city of Liverpool and the Merseyside region in the North-West of England
  • Examines rock music scenes that have remained largely invisible within accounts of the area’s recent history, both in popular and academic writing
  • Explicates how people have worked within often challenging circumstances to sustain the production of metal music within a changing city region

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: In the Shadow of Beat City? Metal on Merseyside

    • Nedim Hassan
    Pages 1-22

  3. From Troggs to Headbangers: The Historical Development of Metal on Merseyside

    • Nedim Hassan
    Pages 23-53

  4. Shaken Foundations? Venues and a Changing Live Music Scene

    • Nedim Hassan
    Pages 55-99

  5. “Support your Scene”: Metal Scenes, Solidarity and the Threat of Decline

    • Nedim Hassan
    Pages 101-133

  6. Promoting Metal on Merseyside

    • Nedim Hassan
    Pages 135-163

  7. Mediating Metal on Merseyside

    • Nedim Hassan
    Pages 165-197

  8. Conclusion: Standing in the Shadows of Beat City

    • Nedim Hassan
    Pages 199-202

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 203-206
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About this book

This is the first book to examine the partially hidden history of metal music scenes within the city of Liverpool and the surrounding region of Merseyside in the North-West of England. It reveals that while Liverpool has historically been portrayed as a certain kind of ‘music city,’ metal has been marginalized within its music heritage narratives. This marginality was not inevitable. The book illustrates how it is not merely the product of historical representation but the result of forces of urban change and regional shifts in the economy of live music. Nor is this marginality inconsequential. Drawing on ethnographic research, Nedim Hassan demonstrates that it has influenced how the region’s metal scenes are perceived and how people feel towards them.

Metal on Merseyside reveals how various people involved with such scenes work within often challenging circumstances to sustain the production of metal music and events. It also reveals the tensions that arise as scenemembers’ desires for an ideal metal community collide with forces of change. Metal on Merseyside is, therefore, a fascinating barometer for the contradictions apparent when people engage in creative labour to produce music that they love.

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“Liverpool is a city officially branded as the birthplace of the Beatles and recognised as the ‘World Capital of Pop’ by the Guinness Book of Records. Hassan brings a fresh perspective on the city’s musical life and history by providing the first in-depth investigation into its ‘hidden’ hard rock and metal scene. Drawing on first-hand interviews and observation, the book examines the experiences of the promoters, musicians and fans who identify with the scene, their collaboration on the preparation and promotion of gigs, and the rise and fall of the venues involved. In doing so, it reveals the resilience of a scene that has endured since the late 1960s, and challenges city-branding initiatives based on narrow images of music heritage. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book will appeal not only to students and researchers working across a range of disciplines, but also to a wider readership interested in music, place and cultural heritage.”

– Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool, UK


Authors and Affiliations

  • Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

    Nedim Hassan

About the author

Nedim Hassan is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.​

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Metal on Merseyside

  • Book Subtitle: Music Scenes, Community and Locality

  • Authors: Nedim Hassan

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77681-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77680-0Published: 15 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77683-1Published: 16 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77681-7Published: 14 September 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9517

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9525

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 206

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Cultural History, Music, Ethnography

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