Energy Flash by Simon Reynolds
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There's one called 'Discographies: Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound' by Ewan Pearson (who's also a great electronic producer).
Can't remember that much about it cos I read it at uni when I was doing a cultural studies degree but I did enjoy it. Might be too theoretical for some though. I'm too young to have been any part of the rave scene but for those who were there it must be weird reading about their life as theories of cultural practice!
This is what Amazon say about the book:
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. Tracing the history of ideas about music and dance in Western culture and the ways in which dance music is produced and received, the authors assess the importance and relevance of dance culture in the 1990s and beyond. Discographies considers the formal, aesthetic and political characteristics of dance music. 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 why politicians and agencies as diverse as the independent music press and public broadcasting should be so hostile to this cultural phenomenon.
Can't remember that much about it cos I read it at uni when I was doing a cultural studies degree but I did enjoy it. Might be too theoretical for some though. I'm too young to have been any part of the rave scene but for those who were there it must be weird reading about their life as theories of cultural practice!
This is what Amazon say about the book:
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. Tracing the history of ideas about music and dance in Western culture and the ways in which dance music is produced and received, the authors assess the importance and relevance of dance culture in the 1990s and beyond. Discographies considers the formal, aesthetic and political characteristics of dance music. 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 why politicians and agencies as diverse as the independent music press and public broadcasting should be so hostile to this cultural phenomenon.
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