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Boys, Bass and Bother

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

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Jo Hall

    1. Independent Scholar, West Horsley, United Kingdom

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  • Explores dancing as a mode of identity performance in the British drum 'n' bass club culture

  • Shows that the dancing body blends prior meaning with new significance

  • Challenges the various labels and distinctions attached to certain types of dance music

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Mapping the Multifarious

    • Jo Hall
    Pages 1-29

  3. Complex Identities

    • Jo Hall
    Pages 31-69

  4. Origin Unknown

    • Jo Hall
    Pages 71-109

  5. Inner City Life

    • Jo Hall
    Pages 111-137

  6. Original Nuttah

    • Jo Hall
    Pages 139-171

  7. Super Sharp Shooter

    • Jo Hall
    Pages 173-202

  8. Heterocorporealities

    • Jo Hall
    Pages 203-219

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 221-245
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About this book

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. 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Independent Scholar, West Horsley, United Kingdom

    Jo Hall

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About the author

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.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Boys, Bass and Bother

  • Book Subtitle: Popular Dance and Identity in UK Drum ’n’ Bass Club Culture

  • Authors: Jo Hall

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-37511-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-37510-0Published: 20 March 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37511-7Published: 10 March 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 245

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Dance

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