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Digging the Seam:Cultural Reflections & the Consequences of the 1984/5 Miners' Strike
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Venue Name: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
City: Leeds
State: North Yorkshire
Number of Attendees: Unknown
Webinar or Virtual Event: No
Keywords: literature, music, dance, theatre, performance, radio, photography , television and cinema
Start Date of Conference:: 03-25-2010
End Date of Conference: 03-27-2010
Description of Conference: March 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of the end of one of the bitterest industrial disputes in living memory, the 1984/5 miners’ strike. The social and political consequences of this dispute, which have resonated for the past quarter century, have been subject to detailed analysis and reflection. The consequences for the arts and popular culture are less clearly mapped. This conference intends to explore the broad cultural legacy of the strike and to focus on two key strands.
The first will examine cultural representations of the strike and broader mining culture through popular forms such as literature, music, dance, theatre, performance, radio, photography , television and cinema. It will examine how popular culture has recorded and represented the strike and its associated cultures in the intervening 25 years as well as its role in the preservation of particular traditions and practices in a new ‘post industrial’ society.
The second will examine the relationship between the strike and cultural production. How did cultural producers in forms such as music, theatre and cinema respond to the strike? Which kinds of producers showed what kinds of solidarities with the miners and how effective were they? How have cultural producers actively constructed meanings of the strike in the intervening years? Arguably, the defeat of the miners hastened the onset of various forms of policy, aimed at regenerating ‘post-industrial’ communities through information and cultural industries. To what extent have there been useful policy interventions, cultural and otherwise, in mining communities?
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