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This course aims to examine how knowledge about dancefloors and sound systems has been historically produced. Through engagement with recordings and literature on historical dancefloors this course offers a selection of approaches to dance music history with initial case studies ranging from disco outside the US and sound system culture, before addressing most extensively the formation of rave in the late-1980s and early-1990s. It engages with myth-making in dance music history and hopes to equip students with the critical tools necessary to engage with historical depictions of musical practice and their implications in the present. In particular, it will interrogate the relationship between dance, gender, altered states and utopia, in order to ask whether the dancefloor produces an alternative politics of its own, and what the limits of utopian politics built around the dancefloor are? Methodologically, it asks how we can translate sound and movement into writing and other forms of intellectual production, and is it even desirable to do so? |
| Literatur |
- Brar, Dhanveer Singh. 2022. Teklife/Ghettoville/Eski: the sonic ecologies of Black
music in the early twenty-first century. London: Goldsmiths Press.
- Brown, DeForrest. 2023. Assembling a black counter culture. New York: Primary Information.
- Buckland, Fiona. 2002. Impossible dance: club culture and queer world-making.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
- Clark, Peder. 2023. "Claire and Jose Get Off Their Cake: Ecstasy, Raving and Women’s Pleasure in 1990s Britain." Cultural and Social History 20 (1): 117-132.
- Collin, Matthew. 2009. Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid
House. 2nd. Ed. London: Serpent's Tail.
- Collin, Matthew. 2018 Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music. London: Serpent's Tail.
- Davidson, Joe PI. 2023. "Repeating beats: The return of rave, memories of joy and nostalgia between the afterglow and the hangover". Memory Studies 16 (2): 421- 434.
- Gadir, Tami. 2023. Dance Music: A Feminist Account of an Ordinary Culture.
London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- García-Mispireta, Luis Manuel. 2023. Together, somehow: music, affect, and intimacy on the dancefloor. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Gillett, Ed. 2023. Party Lines: Dance Music and the Creation of Modern Britain.
London Picador.
- Henriques, Julian. 2011. Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing. New York: Continuum.
- James, Malcolm. 2020. Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime Youtube Music Videos. The Study of Sound. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Pini, Maria. 2001. Club cultures and female subjectivity: the move from home to
house. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
- Pitrolo, Flora; Zubak, Marko ed. 2022. Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s Disco Heterotopias. (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
- Wark, McKenzie. 2023. Raving. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Warren, Emma. 2023. Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor. London: Faber & Faber.
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