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Over the kitchen table: British storytelling as working-class art, belonging and resistance
- Source: Journal of Class & Culture, Volume 3, Issue 2, Oct 2024, p. 111 - 119
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- 19 Apr 2024
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Abstract
This article introduces a contemporary art and storytelling project that took place in January 2024 in Bestwood Village, an ex-coal community, showing a televised play filmed in the village (1963) written by Dennis Potter, Stand Up, Nigel Barton, about the son of a coal miner gaining a place at Oxford University during this period of social change. The project and the article show that the art of working-class storytelling is both political and personal, and despite the lack of working-class voices in the arts, in the culture industries and in academia, small storytelling events such as this one play an important part in strengthening working-class communities.
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