Dance Music: A Feminist Account of an Ordinary Culture

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Dr Tami Gadir (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) Matt Brennan (University of Glasgow UK)

Dance Music

A Feminist Account of an Ordinary Culture

Dr Tami Gadir (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia), Matt Brennan (University of Glasgow UK), Simon Frith

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
02 November 2023

Electronic music; Social & cultural history; Gender studies, gender groups

Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music

For some people, at some times, in some places, on some drugs, dance music can be a gateway to transformative, even transcendent experiences. With the help of skilled DJs, dancers can reach euphoric states, discard their egos, and feel social barriers dissolve. Dance floors can be sites of openness, subversion, and even small-scale acts of political resistance. At a minimum, dance music lightens the burdens of contemporary life. At its best, dance music offers glimpses of better worlds.

Yet even where dance music communities are built on principles of resistance and liberation, they nevertheless share the grittier realities of the rest of the world.

Dance Music makes the case that dance music is ordinary and that something exceeding the social and spatiotemporal bounds of the dance floor is required for the transformative promise of dance music to be realized.

By: Dr Tami Gadir (RMIT University Melbourne Australia)
Edited by: Matt Brennan (University of Glasgow UK), Simon Frith
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501346408
ISBN 10: 1501346407
Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 02 November 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Introduction 1. Dance Music Histories 2. Dance Music Studies 3. Location, Regulation, and Night-Time Danger 4. Transcendence 5. “This One’s for the Ladies”: Gender Trouble in Sound and Dance 6. “It’s Not About Gender”: Merit, Talent, and Other Myths Conclusion: Dance Music is Ordinary Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

Tami Gadir is Lecturer in Music Industry at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Gadir’s research addresses the social and political mechanisms of musical life.

Reviews for Dance Music: A Feminist Account of an Ordinary Culture

Amidst a recent wave of books on dance music and club culture, Tami Gadir’s Dance Music stands out. Gadir celebrates the ways in which dance floors may be spaces of self-realization and community, but goes further than most in capturing the ways such spaces are fraught with risk, anxiety, and the violence of oppression. Commonplace ideas about club culture—like those claiming the ‘transcendence’ of dance floor experience—are scrutinized with care and a sharp sense of their political stakes. Well-written and impeccably researched, this is an important contribution to an expanding field. * Will Straw, Professor of Urban Media Studies, McGill University, Canada *