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Discographies: Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound



This book is about the transatlantic dance scene of the last twenty-five years and how it has affected various forms of writing, academic and cultural. It also discusses the bodily nature of musical experience and how it has been limited by contemporary dance culture. more details
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  • Discusses the bodily nature of musical experience and how it has been limited by contemporary dance culture


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Author Jeremy Gilbert,Ewan Pearson
ISBN 9780415170321
Publisher Routledge
Manufacturer Routledge
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This book is about the transatlantic dance scene of the last twenty-five years and how it has affected various forms of writing, academic and cultural. It also discusses the bodily nature of musical experience and how it has been limited by contemporary dance culture.

Experiencing Disco, Hip Hop, House, Techno, Drum 'n Bass and Garage, Discographies takes a revealing look at the transatlantic dance scene of the 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. The book considers both the problems posed by contemporary dance culture for various forms of writing, academic and cultural, and their origins in the long history of opposition to music as a source of sensory pleasure. The authors offer a framework for understanding the bodily nature of musical experience using a range of theorists including Derrida, Irigaray and Judith Butler, and consider the limits placed on contemporary dance culture as exemplary of the modern regulation of social space. 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 are so hostile to this cultural phenomenon. Discographies breaks new ground in considering important cultural phenomena not only in terms of a politics of identity, but a politics of experience.
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