Discographies [electronic resource] : dance music, culture, and the politics of sound / Jeremy Gilbert and Ewan Pearson.

Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems posed by contemporary dance culture of both academic and cultural study and finds these ori...

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Main Author: Gilbert, Jeremy, 1971-
Other Authors: Pearson, Ewan, 1972-
Other title:Dance music, culture, and the politics of sound
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • The tribal rites of Saturday night : discos and intellectuals
  • Music, meaning and pleasure : from Plato to disco
  • The metaphysics of music
  • Take your partner by the hand : dance music, gender and sexuality
  • Metal machines : technology, subjectivity and reception
  • No music, no dancing : capitalist modernity and the legacy of Puritanism
  • The politics of popular culture.