Dance Music: A Feminist Account of an Ordinary Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501346408)

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.

Author: Tami Gadir
ISBN-10: 1501346407
ISBN-13: 9781501346408
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2023
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

About the Author
Tami Gadir is a researcher in musicology at the University of Oslo, Norway. Gadir works across the areas of popular music and music and gender, with a current specialization in the sounds and cultures of contemporary, electronically-produced dance music.