The Culture of Capital

by Allt, Nicky

• ISBN13: 9781846311277
• ISBN10: 1846311276
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-16
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

"The Culture of Capital" brings together a fascinating new collection of short stories from acclaimed author and playwright Nicky Allt about what it means to live in his home city of Liverpool. Covering late-twentieth-century terrain as diverse as a night spent watching The Clash perform at Liverpool's legendary Eric's club to the bleak tale of an unemployed builder intimidated by a local drug baron, Allt's writing submerses the reader in the great Liverpudlian themes of music, sport, humor, and exceptionalism. Using the city's status as the European Capital of Culture in 2008 as a prism through which we might understand contemporary Liverpool, this sometimes poignant, sometimes acerbic, but always compelling collection will be required reading for anyone interested in the culture and creativity of this memorable city.

Author Biography

Nicky Allt is the author of Here We Go Gathering Cups in May and The Boys from The Mersey.

Table of Contents

Sintroduction	p. 1
Wintroduction	p. 9
The Un-English Disease	p. 13
Liverpool DNA	p. 43
Artist's view ... Art in a City	p. 49
Liverpool life ... Outsourced Liverpool	p. 51
Liverpool life ... Liverpool Lou	p. 57
Bluecoat view ... Cultural Cakes and Crevices	p. 59
London view ... When it all comes down	p. 65
Political life ... The Regeneration Professionals	p. 82
Athens life ... Family Matters	p. 98
Halewood life ... The Sound of the Suburbs	p. 102
Cultural life ... Cock-ups and Pasta Sauces	p. 105
Love life ... Sweet, Sweet Emerald-eyed Punk	p. 108
Cultural life ... Bureaucracy vs. Creativity	p. 128
Cultural life ... Capital of (Popular) Culture	p. 130
Writer's life ... The Capital of Kidneys	p. 132
Taffy Scouse	p. 143
Paddy-Wack (Irish Scouse)	p. 145
Scottish Scouse	p. 147
English Scouse	p. 149
October 2007 ... A Day in the Life	p. 153
Selected Liverpool music to walk the city	p. 172
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