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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Jeremy, 1971-

Gilbert Pearson Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Pearson, Ewan, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance music--20th century--History and criticism.

Dance music.

Dance music--Social aspects.

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Dance music, culture, and the politics of sound

Place of Publication:

Taylor and Francis 2002

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 origins in the history of opposition to music as a source of sensory pleasure.Discussing such issues as technology, club space. drugs, the musical body, gender, sexuality and pleasure, Discographies explores the ecstatic experiences at the heart of contemporary dance culture. It suggests wh

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 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 machine musics: Technology, subjectivity and reception; No music, no dancing: Capitalist modernity and the legacy of Puritanism; The politics of popular culture; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-69891-7

0-203-26926-8

1-280-33380-4

1-134-69892-5

0-203-01206-2

9780203012062

OCLC:

179161683