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Mancunians: Where Do We Start, Where Do I Begin? (Paperback)
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Mancunians: Where Do We Start, Where Do I Begin? (Paperback)

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Published: 02/07/2024
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In the late 1990s, Manchester was a city in upheaval. The devastation of the IRA bomb and the closure of the notorious Haçienda nightclub were seismic events that rocked the city’s confidence at a time when identikit bands were flooding its clubs and bars, fuelled on anthemic guitar rock and swagger. Stereotypes were everywhere, while the spirit of Manchester was silently suffocating.

Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? is the story of those who didn’t fit the typecast: the musicians of colour, the football fans alienated by rampant commercialism, frustrated public figures, optimistic developers and ambitious artists.

Through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known Mancunians such as Guy Garvey, Tunde Babalola, Sylvia Tella, Badly Drawn Boy and Stan Chow, David Scott portrays the city at the turn of the century in a way never seen before.

Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9781526161512
Number of pages: 264
Weight: 265 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm


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One of I Love MCR's 'Manchester books you need to read before you die'‘Witty and wise... Mancunians is everything a book about Mancunians should be.’Daniel Harris, The Guardian‘Here is someone who is fiercely "Mancunian", with an understanding of the city’s recent past, but not bogged down by the baggage and beholden to it... Highly recommended.'Iain Key, Louder Than War'A panoramic view of Manchester’s changing sociological and cultural skyline.'Desmond Bullen, Northern Soul‘A great read from one of Manchester’s finest wordsmiths.’Clint Boon‘An honest love letter to the city.’Christine Bottomley‘A touching and brilliant balance of the personal and the popular, from a time when there was so much change in the city.’Mr Scruff - .

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“A city and its people...”

I enjoyed this memoir/cultural history of Manchester. Its all post the 96 IRA bomb, so not as focussed on Factory/Hacienda/'Madchester' as similar works often are.
Intelligent and inspiring, just like the city

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