Boys, Bass and Bother

Popular Dance and Identity in UK Drum ’n’ Bass Club Culture

Jo Hall (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

245 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-37510-0 (ISBN)

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This book uses ethnographic research to examine the role of dance in the construction of identity in the distinctly British electronic dance music club culture of drum ’n’ bass. Dancing is revealed as the central way in which drum ’n’ bass clubbers construct and perform their identities, which are informed, although not defined, by the club culture’s histories. The intertextual and intercultural development of drum ’n’ bass musical and clubbing culture is shown to be represented in the dancing body, prompting a challenge to the discourse of cultural appropriation. Popular representations of identities are embodied by drum ’n’ bass clubbers through affective transmission via the popular screen, and in this process are re-valued in their embodiment. Using a socially orientated understanding of intertextuality, the popular dancing body is shown to be heterocorporeal: containing traces of prior meaning and logic yet replete with new meaning and significance.

Joanna Hall has published her research in Bodies of Sound: Studies Across Popular Music and Dance (eds. Dodds & Cook, 2013) and Decentring Dancing Texts: The Challenge of Interpreting Dances (ed. Lansdale, 2008). She has worked within UK higher education since 2004, including her most recent post as Head of Dance at Kingston University, London, UK.

1. Mapping the multifarious.- 2. Complex identities.- 3. Origin Unknown.- 4. Inner City Life.- 5. Original Nuttah.- 6. Super Sharp Shooter.- 7. Heterocorporealities.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2018
Zusatzinfo	5 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 245 p. 5 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
Schlagworte	affective transmission • clubbing culture • Culture • Drum'n'Bass • electronic music • Ethnographic Research • Identity • Performance • Popular dance
ISBN-10	1-137-37510-8 / 1137375108
ISBN-13	978-1-137-37510-0 / 9781137375100
Zustand	Neuware