Dancefloor Driven Literature

Author : Simon A. Morrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501357689
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancefloor-Driven Literature written by Simon A. Morrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost as soon as 'club culture' took hold - during the UK's Second Summer of Love in 1988 - its sociopolitical impact became clear, with journalists, filmmakers and authors all keen to use this cultural context as source material for their texts. This book uses that electronic music subculture as a route into an analysis of these principally literary representations of a music culture: why such secondary artefacts appear and what function they serve. The book conceives of a new literary genre to accommodate these stories born of the dancefloor - 'dancefloor-driven literature'. Using interviews with Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting (1994), alongside other dancefloor-driven authors Nicholas Blincoe and Jeff Noon as case studies, the book analyzes three separate ways writers draw on electronic dance music in their fictions, interrogating that very particular intermedial intersection between the sonic and the linguistic. It explores how such authors write about something so subterranean as the nightclub scene, and analyses what specific literary techniques they deploy to write lucidly and fluidly about the metronomic beat of electronic music and the chemical accelerant that further alters that relationship.

Author : Simon Alexander Morrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501357701
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancefloor-driven Literature written by Simon Alexander Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers club culture via the prism of the fictions written about the subculture - interrogating why, and how, authors write about electronic music as text

Author : Andrew C. Wenaus
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031070291
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jeff Noon's "Vurt" written by Andrew C. Wenaus and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon’s iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993). In this first book-length study of the novel, which includes an extended interview with Noon, Wenaus considers how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization, its constructivist relationship to genre, its violent and oneiric setting of Manchester, its use of the Orphic myth as an archetype for the practice of literary collage and musical remix, and how the structural paradoxes of chaos and fractal geometry inform the novel’s content, form, and theme. Finally, Wenaus makes the case for Vurt’s ongoing relevance in the 21st century, an era increasingly characterized by neuro-totalitarianism, psychopolitics, and digital surveillance. With Vurt, Noon begins his project of rupturing feedback loops of control by breaking narrative habits and embracing the contingent and unpredictable. An inventive, energetic, and heartbreaking novel, Vurt is also an optimistic and heartfelt call for artists to actively create open futures.

Author : Trevor Miller
Publisher : Velocity Press
ISBN 13 : 1913231097
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trip City written by Trevor Miller and published by Velocity Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1989, when Trip City was first released with a soundtrack by A Guy Called Gerald, there had been no other British novel like it. This was the down and dirty side of London nightclubs, dance music and the kind of hallucinogenic drug sub-culture that hadn’t really been explored since Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Maybe this is why Trip City is still known as “the acid house novel” and an underground literary landmark. A nightclub promoter returns to town and is thrown into an insidious world of designer drugs, psychosis and murder. Filled with mind-bending hallucinogenic moments, Trip City by Trevor Miller veers into the realm of Alphaville and neo-noir of the French new wave.

Author : Michael Tullberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615980416
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancefloor Thunderstorm written by Michael Tullberg and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DANCEFLOOR THUNDERSTORM: Land Of The Free, Home Of The Rave is the spectacular visual storytelling of when the rave scene brought electronic music up from obscurity, and changed the way America looked at dance music forever. Written by rave super-insider Michael Tullberg, the book takes the reader back to the halcyon days of the U.S. rave underground in the 1990s, when the seeds of modern-day EDM were sown. Photographing and writing for the major dance music magazines of the day, Tullberg amassed an enormous collection of photos, live reviews, interviews, rave memorabilia and ephemera over the years. It is this collection that forms the basis for this book. DANCEFLOOR THUNDERSTORM takes the reader into the very heart of the rave scene, when these controversial parties hosted the hottest and most cutting-edge dance music in the country. It gives you VIP, backstage and on-stage access with the biggest electronic music talent in the world, including dance music legends like Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, Moby, Fat Boy Slim and more. The first book of its kind in the U.S., DANCEFLOOR THUNDERSTORM pulls back the curtain and captures this cultural explosion as it shot across the country, converting millions into fans of electronic music. A must-have for any fan of music or pop culture, the book is a time warp back to a time of magical nights and miraculous rhythms.

Author : Matthew Collin
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 1782831452
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rave On written by Matthew Collin and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic dance music was once the utopian frontier of pop culture. But three decades after the acid house 'summer of love', it has gone from subculture to the global mainstream. Does it still have the same power to inspire? From the pleasure palaces of Ibiza and Las Vegas to 'new frontiers' like Shanghai and Dubai, raving is now a multi-million-dollar business. But there are still hardcore believers upholding its DIY ethos - the techno idealists of Berlin and Detroit and the queer subcults of New York, the post-apartheid party people of South Africa and the outlaw techno travellers of France. In Rave On, Matthew Collin travels the world to experience these unique scenes first-hand, talk to the key players and hear the story of how dance culture went global - and find out if its maverick spirit can survive its own success.

Author : Dr. Nonyelum Chibuzo Mba
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496989503
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maiden Dance written by Dr. Nonyelum Chibuzo Mba and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Nonyelum Chibuzo Mba is from Nigeria. She is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Abuja, Abuja. She has a PhD in Feminism (Womanism) and Gender Discourse in African Literature in English. Her other qualifications are an MA in English Literature; a BA (Ed) English, NCE; a Diploma in Computer Science (Data Processing), Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism, WASC, and GCE O-Level. In addition to The Maiden Dance, Dr. N. C. Mba is the author of Basic Study in Fiction, Literature of Black Diaspora, A Survey of the Twentieth Century American Literature, and Escapade (a novel). She has published several articles in various journals, contributed to books, and has a number of works in progress, including collections of short stories, poems, and drama. She is a member of several professional and other associations.

Author : Marlene Rigaud Apollon
Publisher : Amer Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 9781561673049
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Want to Dance written by Marlene Rigaud Apollon and published by Amer Literary Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margiad Evans
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780714535937
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country Dance written by Margiad Evans and published by Calder Publications Limited. This book was released on 1932 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin G. Stephenson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533155887
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Stories from the Dance Floor written by Kevin G. Stephenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of true stories, experiences and direct quotes of people from the social dance community from around and outside the United States. Many of the comments came from a dancing social networking group I managed years ago. The contributors have various dance backgrounds such as Swing, Latin Dance, Ballroom and many others. The contributors range from novice to professionals. The stories offer basic insight into how people in relationship should treat one another. Also what we tend to learn about people as we encounter them on the social dance floor. Please note. The opinions expressed are solely of the contributors and not necessarily of the author of this book. Enjoy