This collection examines Blackpool, Britain’s first and largest working-class seaside resort as a location for the production and consumption of British film and popular music, and the meaning of ‘Blackpool’ in films and songs.

Chapter One:  Introduction.  Ewa Mazierska,  University of Central Lancashire.- Chapter Two:  Behind the Façade: the liminal, margins, and the social shifts of cultural production in Blackpool grime. Dr. Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Central Lancashire.- Chapter Three:  Blackpool grime and Brexit – how Little T became the North’s biggest pop star.  Dr. Kamila Rymajdo, freelance journalist and cultural commentator.- Chapter Four:  Punk in Blackpool. Philip Smith, Record Collector and Universal Records correspondent.- Chapter Five:  Blackpool ‘Rock’ 1967-c.1975 (working title).  Dr. Pete Atkinson, University of Central Lancashire.- Chapter Six:  Blackpool music venues 1960s to the present day.  Colin Appleby, music promoter.- Chapter Seven:  Travelling to and through Blackpool: Female Subjectivity and Social Realism in Hindle Wakes (1927), A Taste of Honey (1961), andBhaji on the Beach (1993).  Dr. Cecilia Mello, University of Sao Paolo.- Chapter Eight:  A Long Weekend In Purgatory: Blackpool in Away and Bob’s Weekend.  Chad Bentley, University of Sheffield.- Chapter Nine:  Blackpool Fantasy Film and the Contemporary Dilemmas for Blackpool.  Professor Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire.

“Blackpool in Film and Popular Music is not only a book about a much maligned and misunderstood town, it is about how popular culture reflects, enriches, and produces a sense of place for individuals, communities, regions and nations. Its scope is both highly specific and wide ranging, underling the importance of countering the generalisations that all too often define characterisations of Northern places, while producing arguments which are applicable to other spaces in England. In privileging a rich range of scholarly perspectives and diverse explorations of Blackpool, Mazierska models the kind of interdisciplinary approach that is essential if we are to better understand the complex processes of place making that are at play in what is increasingly an economically, culturally and politically divided country.” (David Forrest, The University of Sheffield)

Presents Blackpool’s unique place in British culture through examining films and songs about Blackpool and artists connected with this city Focuses on the most recent developments of Blackpool’s popular culture Based largely on primary sources collected by authors with a longstanding interest in Blackpool

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