The Culture of Capital

Nicky Allt

The Culture of Capital
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Nicky Allt

Distributed for Liverpool University Press

173 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2008
Paper $25.00 ISBN: 9781846311277 Published June 2008 For sale in North America only
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.
Contents

Acknowledgements

 

Sintroduction      Nicky Allt

Wintroduction      Nicky Allt

The Un-English Disease      Nicky Allt

Liverpool DNA      Nicky Allt

Artist’s view… Art in a City      Anthony Brown

Liverpool life… Outsourced Liverpool      Steve Higginson

Liverpool life… Liverpool Lou      Suzanne Collins

Bluecoat view… Cultural Cakes and Crevices      Rachael Eades

London view… Drinking it in      Tony Teasdale

Liverpool life… When it all comes down      Mickey, written by Nicky Allt

Political life… The Regeneration Professionals      Peter Furmedge

Athens life… Family Matters      Karen Gill

Halewood life… The Sound of the Suburbs      John Garner

Cultural life… Cock-ups and Pasta Sauces      Neville Skelly

Love life… Sweet, Sweet Emerald-eyed Punk      J.M., written by Nicky Allt

Cultural life… Bureaucracy vs. Creativity      Peter Hooton

Cultural life… Capital of (Popular) Culture      Dave Kirby

Writer’s life… The Capital of Kidneys      Sarah Deane

Taffy Scouse      John Jones

Paddy-Wack (Irish Scouse)      Paul O’Callaghan

Scottish Scouse      Andrew McGregor

English Scouse      Nicky Allt

October 2007… A Day in the Life      Nicky Allt

Selected Liverpool music to walk the city

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