Venue Stories - Narratives, Memories, and Histories from Britain’s Independent Music Spaces - Fraser Mann

Venue Stories - Narratives, Memories, and Histories from Britain’s Independent Music Spaces - Fraser Mann

Introduction

Venue Stories - Narratives, Memories, and Histories from Britain’s Independent Music Spaces - Fraser Mann

Fraser Mann [+-]
York St. John University
Fraser Mann is Senior Lecturer in Literature at York St. John University. He is a specialist in American writing with particular interests in conflict, testimony, and trauma. He has published research on a range of literary figures such as Ernest Hemingway, James Jones and Norman Mailer. He also works on music writing in the form of creative non-fiction and recently co-edited the Bloomsbury edited collection Music, Memory and Memoir. His creative writing can be found on the Twistin’ My Memory, Man blogspace. His teaching interests include American Studies, autobiography and twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing.
Robert Edgar [+-]
York St. John University
Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities at York St John University, UK. He has published Screenwriting (Bloomsbury, 2009), Directing Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2009), The Language of Film (Bloomsbury, 2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (Routledge, 2013), The Arena Concert (Bloomsbury, 2015), Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2019), Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition (2023). He is co-editing the Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (2023) and Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2024).
Helen Pleasance [+-]
York St. John University
Helen Pleasance is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. She has written on the Moors murders, the spectral form of memoir and music memoirs. She is currently working on a hybrid family memoir about the women in her family and needlework.

Description

Venue Stories is an anthology of creative non-fiction that remembers, celebrates and reinvigorates our complex and plural relationship with small and independent music spaces. Written by musicians, promoters, fans and academics who have a shared passion for small music venues and musical cultures in all their splendid variety, this anthology features memoir, essays, life writing, historiography and autoethnography. Each chapter is united by a focus on the personal, the sensory and half-remembered. These are stories that cross disciplinary lines and blur distinctions between creativity, reportage and critical analysis. Venue Stories pays a visit to the toilet venues, back rooms and ad-hoc club nights that make up so much of our musical landscape. It spends time in small and local venues and asks what they mean in personal and cultural terms. Writers visit celebrated spots, long forgotten spaces and emergent venues. Whatever the lineage, they are independent, original and wonderfully weird. The stories are memories of seismic gigs and life-altering raves. They are mosaic remembrances and recollections; funny, heart-breaking, rage induced and sometimes a combination of all of these things. This is a collection of stories by and for fans, band members, merch sellers, pint pullers, journalists with a freebie, roadies with a backache and sound techs with an earache.

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Mann, Fraser; Edgar, Robert; Pleasance, Helen. Introduction. Venue Stories - Narratives, Memories, and Histories from Britain’s Independent Music Spaces. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 1-22 Sep 2023. ISBN 9781800503731. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=42683. Date accessed: 11 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.42683. Sep 2023

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