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Dance-Punk

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Dance-Punk delves into the complex and elusive genre that emerges from the late 1970s, blending disco, punk, and related styles like post-punk and new wave. It examines the socio-cultural background of the movement during its original surge and revival in the early 2000s, focusing on influential bands such as Gang of Four, ESG, and LCD Soundsystem. Through this exploration, the book highlights the dynamic tensions between the emotional energy of dance music and the intellectual, often ironic tone of post-punk.
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This book is suited for readers interested in music history, cultural studies, and the evolution of alternative music genres. It appeals particularly to those who appreciate in-depth analyses of niche musical movements and their broader cultural implications.

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"Guides readers through dance-punk, a sub-genre of post-punk, drawing from the historical and cultural conditions surrounding the genre in the 1970s and early 1980s, and then again in the early 2000s"--

Guides readers through dance-punk, a sub-genre of post-punk, drawing from the historical and cultural conditions surrounding the genre in the 1970s and early 1980s, and then again in the early 2000s.

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Beginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define. Also sometimes referred to as disco-punk and funk-punk, it skirts, overlaps, and blurs into other genres including post-punk, post-disco, new wave, mutant disco, and synthpop.

Dance-Punk explores the historical and cultural conditions of the genre as it appeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s and then again in the early 2000s. It illuminates what is at stake in delineating dance-punk as a genre. Looking at bands such as Gang of Four, ESG, Public Image Ltd., LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, and Le Tigre, this book examines the tensions between and blurring of the rhetoric and emotion in dance music and the cynical and ironic intellectualizing associated with post-punk.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501381867

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 April 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 237g

Pages: 216

About the Author

Larissa Wodtke works in the Office of Research and Innovation at The University of Winnipeg, Canada, where she is also a member of the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies. She has published research on popular music, memory, irony, temporality, labour, neoliberalism, and digital texts, including co-authoring the book Triptych: Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible (2017).

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