Party lines : dance music and the making of modern Britain
Gillett, Ed2023
Books, Manuscripts
From the illicit reggae blues dances and acid-rock free festivals of the 1970s, through the ecstasy-fuelled Second Summer of Love in 1988, to the increasingly corporate dance music culture of the post-Covid era, 'Party Lines' is a groundbreaking new history of UK dance music, exploring its pivotal role in the social, political, and economic shifts on which modern Britain has been built. Challenging popular narratives about the history of dance music, journalist and film-maker Ed Gillett explores a fifty-year struggle between the desire of young Britons to collectively lose and rediscover themselves on the dancefloor, and the use of ever-expanding government and policing powers to control, monetize, and stifle those radical impulses.
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Author:
Gillett, Ed, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2023.
Collation:
452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529070644 (hbk)
Dewey class:
781.6316480941781.6316781.6480941781.631781.6
LC class:
ML3540.5
Local class:
781.631781.64809
Language:
English
Subject:
Electronic dance music -- Great Britain -- History and criticismPolitics and culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryPolitics and culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st centuryGreat Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryGreat Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st centuryMusic -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryMusic -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st centuryMusicGreat Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryGreat Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st century
BRN:
3472019
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