Table of Contents

Introduction: Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives Part I: Theorising Northernness 1. Theorising northernness and northern culture: the north of England, northern Englishness, and sympathetic magic 2. ‘Singing acts’ from the deep North: critical perspectives on northern exotics, contemporary ethnic music and language preservation in Sámi communities Part II: Researching Northernness 3. Everyday leisure and Northernness in Mass Observation’s Worktown 1937–1939 4. ‘Northernness’, gender and Manchester’s creative industries 5. Speaking for herself: Andrea Dunbar and Bradford on film 6. Feeling Northern: ‘heroic women’ in Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley (BBC One, 2014—) 7. Strangers of the north: South Asians, cricket and the culture of ‘Yorkshireness’

About the Author

Gabby Riches is an independent scholar based in Canada. She completed a Ph.D. on gender in the extreme metal scenes in Leeds, UK.

Karl Spracklen is a Professor of Music, Leisure and Culture at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His Ph.D. researched rugby league and northernness in England.

Spencer Swain is a Lecturer at York St. Johns University, UK. His Ph.D. focused on the leisure lives of young British-Somali men in Sheffield, UK.