Discographies

Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-17033-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

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 why politicians and agencies as diverse as the independent music press and public broadcasting should be so hostile to this cultural phenomenon.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilbert, Jeremy

Pearson, Ewan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Elektronische Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 The tribal rites of Saturday night: Discos and intellectuals 2 Music, meaning and pleasure: From Plato to disco 3 The metaphysics of music 4 Take your partner by the hand: Dance music, gender and sexuality 5 Metal machine musics: Technology, subjectivity and reception 6 No music, no dancing: Capitalist modernity and the legacy of Puritanism 7 The politics of popular culture

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremy Gilbert is currently teaching in the Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London. He is contributor to Living Through Pop and The Moderniser's Dilemma. Ewan Pearson has been a visiting lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of East London. He is now a full-time musician and has recorded for several Uk dance labels including Glasgow's Soma recordings.