northern soul

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of northern soul.
   alt-of, uncountable
2. A music and dance movement of northern England in the late 1960s, mainly based around black American soul music.
   uncountable

Examples

“The overwhelmingly young population involved in northern soul needed to find⟳ a way out of the depression slowly taking over the UK in the seventies. Speed⟳ gave them the edge they needed to rise⟳ above all the pain and frustration of a country losing its way.”

“Meanwhile more people were either leaving behind the Northern Soul scene and enjoying the jazz-funk scene, or combining the two.”

“For many young people throughout Britain in the 1970s, Northern Soul became a truly alternative lifestyle with the rites and values of the scene replacing many of the traditional strictures of society.”

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