Dance Music - A Feminist Account of an Ordinary Culture

Dance music-for some people, at some times, in some places, perhaps even on some drugs-can be a gateway to utopia. With the help of skilled DJs, dancers can reach euphoric trance states, discard their egos, and feel their gendered and other identities dissolve. In these settings, dance floors are sites of openness, subversion, and even collective acts of political resistance. At its best, dance music offers glimpses of better worlds.But more often than not, dance music is ordinary. shows that such utopian dance floors are the exception, not the rule. Clubbers physically harass other clubbers based on gender and racial prejudices. Booking agents use myths about merit and masculine artistry to justify their under-booking of women, transgender, and nonbinary DJs. And DJ technology corporations contribute to an inequitable labor market by outsourcing their manufacturing to free-trade zones. Grounded in field work and the accounts of dance music participants across the globe, this book argues that dance music-like all culture-is bound up with the realities of everyday life.>

Product details

• Authors: Tami Gadir
• Assisted by: Matt Brennan (Editor), Simon Frith (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781501346408
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-4640-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 224 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Resp; Alternate Takes: Critical Resp; Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Electronic, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, Popular Music, Electronic Music