Boys, Bass & Bother | Jo Hall

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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 inter textual 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 effective transmission via the popular screen, and in this process are re-valued in their embodiment. Using a socially orientated understanding, the popular dancing body is shown to be hetero-corporeal: containing traces of prior meaning and logic yet replete with new meaning and significance. 

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