Northern Soul is a dance-centric scene that emerged in Britain in the 1960s. It focuses on music made primarily by Black Americans, such as Chuck Jackson, Sidney Barnes, Barbara Lynn, Bobby Hutton ...

"Northern Soul is inherently up-tempo, Black American music that never really made it in America," says Lewis Henderson, one-half of the Deptford Northern Soul Club in the U.K.

(The filmmakers actually ran a dance-school program with some 500 eventual enrollees in order to have extras accurately ape the distinctive shuffle-footed, stiff-torsoed Northern Soul dance style ...

Emerald City Soul Club—the northern soul dance party that happens monthly at Lo-Fi—will mark 10 years of making sophisticates shake their asses to rare 45s cut during the '60s and early '70s ...

A love affair between mostly white British working-class kids and the fast-paced dance music of urban black America, the northern soul scene acquired its name because it was a regional subculture ...

It was absolutely amazing," says Searling. Wigan Casino held its first Northern Soul all-nighter on 23 September 1973, originally starting at 02:00 before moving to a midnight opening.

Fifteen years before the first East London warehouse party, young Brits congregated in dancehalls and partied all night to rare American R&B music.