Music, Beer and Performativity in New Local Leisure Spaces: Case Study of a Yorkshire Dales Market Town

Robinson, David; Spracklen, Karl

doi:10.1007/s41978-018-00029-5

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“…Rather than repeat an elegiac narrative of the decline of the traditional pub (Everitt and Bowler 1996), it is important to locate these findings against a wider context which has seen pubs diversify and expand their remit. While the position of the English pub as a 'cultural icon' is endearing and enduring (Markham 2013), and there is evidence in a resurgence of interest in the 'back to basics' offering of micropubs (Hubbard 2019;Robinson and Spracklen 2019), here we have seen many interviewees speak of pubs as places for coffee, lunches, leisure activities, fitness classes and social events. Further still, while the 'criticality of pubs for sustaining rural life and wellbeing in the area in terms of community cohesion' is well noted by studies such as Cabras and Lau (2019: 260), the findings indicate that pubs are playing an important yet changing role in suburbs and some urban areas too.…”

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“…For example, real ale drinkers may ascribe to a more traditional form of pub based drinking with a focus on quality local beer and a rejection of contemporary forms of alcohol fuelled hedonism typical of the Night Time Economy (Spracklen et al 2013;Thurnell-Read 2017). Similarly, the new trend for 'micropubs', small venues often occupying former retail units and offering a narrow range of higher quality local beers, limited food offerings and prioritizing conversation and traditional entertainment such as games and live music (Hubbard 2019;Robinson and Spracklen 2019) indicate a renewed interest in a 'back to basics' pub experience (Hubbard 2017).…”

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‘If they weren’t in the Pub, they Probably wouldn’t Even Know each Other’: Alcohol, Sociability and Pub Based Leisure

Thurnell‐Read

2020

Int J Sociol Leis

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While the form and function of pubs is diverse and has changed over time, there remains an at least notional consensus that the pub plays an important social function by providing a place for people to come together in pleasurable and meaningful social interaction. Drawing on qualitative research involving focus groups with pub goers and interviews with pub staff, this paper examines the forms of sociability that take place in UK pubs. Pubs are shown to be sites for varied social interactions which differ in form, intensity and meaning. This includes regular pub going rooted in customer routines but also occasional pub going linked to a wider range of events and associated leisure activities. A common theme across these forms of pub sociability is the value placed on feelings of social connections provided by different forms of social interaction and sociability which are facilitated by the hospitable atmospheres many pubs offer. Pubs are therefore cast as important sites through which various forms of sociability are enacted and enabled. The article contributes to ongoing debates about the social role of alcohol based leisure practises but also stresses the decentring of intoxication apparent in many of these accounts and, further, indicates an increasing diversification of pub based leisure.

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‘If they weren’t in the Pub, they Probably wouldn’t Even Know each Other’: Alcohol, Sociability and Pub Based Leisure

Thurnell‐Read

2020

Int J Sociol Leis

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“…Whilst there are no studies that have specifically focused on alcohol use in leisure scenes in Botswana, some international research has suggested that alcohol use is an important part of leisure (Cheng et al, 2019 ; Hryhorczuk et al, 2019 ; Palmer et al, 2020 ; Robinson & Spracklen, 2019 ). Gusfield ( 1996 ) has long made us aware of the connection between alcohol and leisure in the United States.…”

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“Alcohol is life, it’s part of us”: Examining the Everyday Experiences of Alcohol Use in Botswana

Sebeelo

2021

Int J Sociol Leis

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Efforts to control and regulate alcohol has recently gained steam in Botswana. Inspired by a public health perspective, the government of Botswana has recently increased the alcohol tax levy, reduced the hours of operation for bars and increased penalties for alcohol-related offences to control alcohol-related harm. While these reforms have been central to policymaking, and caused some controversy, not much is known about the everyday experiences of alcohol consumers in Botswana. Drawing from semi-structured interviews (n = 40) collected amongst drinkers over a five-year period, this paper examines the everyday use of alcohol in Botswana. The analysis demonstrates that alcohol use constitutes an important part of leisure and night-time economy (NTE) activities in Botswana. It is a functional social activity that is used by people to take time away from the routines and pressures of daily life. More importantly, it is pleasurable to people, enhances sociability, and partaken as a form of transaction between men and women in bars. There is need for policy makers to consider the embodied experiences of alcohol use when designing alcohol interventions in Botswana.

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“…Skoll and Kostanje (2014) explored tensions over authenticity in the gentrification of Riverwest (USA) and El Abasto (Argentina). This contestation of tourism and leisure spaces is mapped out by our previous study of Skipton's Canal Quarter (Robinson & Spracklen, 2019). The application of critical theory to tourism studies is still considerably niche.…”

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“…We focus on the leisure spaces that have opened there as attempts to construct alternative, authentic experiences around the consumption of real ale, the performance of live music, and the curation of second-hand vinyl records. We have previously explored how these might be shown to be a space for Habermasian communicative rationality (Robinson & Spracklen, 2019). That is, we used Habermas (1984Habermas ( , 1987 as a lens to make sense of the meaning and purpose of leisure, and how different Habermasian rationalities existed in the live music and real ale venues of Canal Quarter.…”

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Putting Faith in Vinyl, Real Ale, and Live Music: a Case Study Of the Limits of Tourism Policy and a Critical Analysis Of New Leisure Spaces in a Northern English Town

Spracklen¹,

Robinson²

2020

Tourism Culture & Communication

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Skipton, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, is an old mill town that has seen tourists flocking to it since the arrival of the railway in the 19th century. Like many other old mill towns in northern England, Skipton has lost those mills-as-factories and the workers in them—and has struggled to retain a sustainable local economy. At the same time, Skipton has become increasingly gentrified, and has become a focus for day visitors and tourists attracted by the beautiful countryside seen when Le Tour de France came through Yorkshire in 2014. In this article, we explore the area of Skipton, dubbed the Canal Quarter. We focus on the leisure spaces that have opened there as attempts to construct alternative, authentic experiences around the consumption of real ale, the performance of live music, and the curation of second-hand vinyl records. We have previously explored how these might be shown to be a space for Habermasian rationality. In this sequel, we use critical theory to show how the alternative, authentic space of vinyl, real ale, and live music has already been compromised by two conflicting hegemonic powers: the cooption of leisure into the economics of tourism and tourism policy, and the meaninglessness of cool capitalism and Bauman's consumer society.

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Music, Beer and Performativity in New Local Leisure Spaces: Case Study of a Yorkshire Dales Market Town

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

‘If they weren’t in the Pub, they Probably wouldn’t Even Know each Other’: Alcohol, Sociability and Pub Based Leisure

‘If they weren’t in the Pub, they Probably wouldn’t Even Know each Other’: Alcohol, Sociability and Pub Based Leisure

“Alcohol is life, it’s part of us”: Examining the Everyday Experiences of Alcohol Use in Botswana

Putting Faith in Vinyl, Real Ale, and Live Music: a Case Study Of the Limits of Tourism Policy and a Critical Analysis Of New Leisure Spaces in a Northern English Town

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