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Dancefloor-driven literature : the rave scene in fiction / Simon A. Morrison.
Van Pelt Library PR888.M87 M67 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morrison, Simon, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music in literature.
- Electronic dance music in literature.
- Rave culture in literature.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Considers club culture via the prism of the fictions written about the subculture - interrogating why, and how, authors write about electronic music as text"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Writing the beat
- 2. Sub-versus supraterranean cultures
- 3. Revealing the scene: The global roots of subterranean club cultures
- 4. Re/presentations of EDMC in popular culture media
- 5. Defining Dancefloor-Driven Literature
- 6. Case study one: The figurative use of music in the work of Irvine Welsh
- 7. Case study two: Musical mechanics in the fiction of Jeff Noon
- 8. Case study three: Literary diegesis in the writing of Nicholas Blincoe
- 9. Conclusion: Towards subterranean systems theory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781501357671
- 1501357670
- OCLC:
- 1124969884
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