{"product_id":"dance-music-a-feminist-account-of-an-ordinary-culture-hardcover","title":"Dance Music: A Feminist Account of an Ordinary Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTami Gadir\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMatt Brennan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSimon Frith\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYet 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDance Music\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTami Gadir \u003c\/b\u003eis Lecturer in Music Industry at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Gadir's research addresses the social and political mechanisms of musical life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47407839051954,"sku":"9781501346415","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/f31b9ece7debe6043ff0ea19ab514eeb.webp?v=1778229954","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/dance-music-a-feminist-account-of-an-ordinary-culture-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}