Music-Genres & Styles-Dance

By the early 2010s the term "electronic dance music" and the initialism "EDM" was being pushed by the U.S. music industry and music press in what was largely an effort to re-brand U.S. rave culture.Author: Vannesa ChappaISBN-10: 1522754229ISBN-13: 9781522754220Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

""Tips To Dancers: Good Manners For Ballroom And Dance Hall"" is a book written by Vivian Persis Dewey in 1918. The book is a guide for dancers on how to behave and conduct themselves in ballroom and dance hall settings. It covers a range...

Originally a royal court dance, baakisimba asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. After the abolition of kingship in 1967, baakisimba dance began to be performed in other contexts, with women sometimes playing the accompanying drums-traditionally a man's role-and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Amidst the growing forums of kinky Jews, orthodox drag queens, and Jewish geisha girls, we find today's sexy Jewess in a host of reflexive plays with sexed-up self-display. A social phantasm with real legs, she moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease, comedy television, ballet movies,...

Mid-town Buppies, big-time mobsters, fabulous dancing queens, and unscrupulous promoters all come together in After Dark, a first-hand account of the birth and growth of the disco movement in the 1970s. Disco music has earned an unflattering reputation for being garish and flashy; however,...

Daft Punk's Discovery is a record that looked into the future and liked what it saw; an album that predicted the electronic music explosion, YouTube and the end of privacy, while dragging soft rock back into vogue. Discovery was not only one of the...

In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. A cohesive album with a...

Death-defying scooter stunts, Ukrainian tanks, sharks, monster trucks... these are just some of the indignities facing Oliver Tree as he is thrown into the meat grinder of the music industry to promote his debut retirement album "Ugly is Beautiful". Denied his chosen herbal medicine...

Mid-town Buppies, big-time mobsters, fabulous dancing queens, and unscrupulous promoters all come together in After Dark, a first-hand account of the birth and growth of the disco movement in the 1970s. Disco music has earned an unflattering reputation for being garish and flashy; however,...

Author: Eve BabitzISBN-10: 1501111450ISBN-13: 9781501111457Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2014Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d

In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made it such hot stuff? In her incisive history, Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling...

Reveals how the culture and repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom permeated and intersected with other areas of musical life.Author: Erica BuurmanISBN-10: 1108495850ISBN-13: 9781108495851Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2021Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Choice 02/01/2023

A celebratory look at how the groundbreaking disco hit changed the world and became "one of the most influential records ever made". (Financial Times)Author: Dave ThompsonISBN-10: 1493049801ISBN-13: 9781493049806Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2021Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.71d

From early accounts of dance customs in medieval Ireland to the present, Brennan offers an authoritative look at the evolution of Irish dance.Author: Helen BrennanISBN-10: 1493066129ISBN-13: 9781493066124Publisher: Lyons PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2022Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Renegade Snares is the definitive book on drum & bass music. Pieced together using original interviews conducted with all the scene's main players, it traces the history of jungle/drum & bass from its early roots in sound system culture and rave music right through...

A pulsating graphic novel on the epic history of electronic music, from the heyday of disco in the 1970s to the rave culture of the 1990s and beyond. With a foreword from house music legends Daft Punk, The Song of the Machine is a...

When Americans mamboed in the kitchen, waltzed in the living room, polkaed in the pavilion, and tangoed at the club; with glorious, full-color record cover art. In midcentury America, eager dancers mamboed in the kitchen, waltzed in the living room, Watusied at the nightclub,...

Learn to Produce Music Like a Pro and Take Your Music To a Whole New LevelDo you love producing music? Do you know what it takes to go from being a bedroom producer to a successful hit maker? If you believe you have what...

How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World foregrounds the importance of embodiment as a means of surviving the disorientation of our twenty-first century world. Linking somatics and politics, author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to gravity as both a...

Joining the ranks of Please Kill Me and Can't Stop Won't Stop comes this definitive chronicle of one of the hottest trends in popular culture--electronic dance music--from the noted authority covering the scene.It is the sound of the millennial generation, the music "defining youth...

Dance along with the pioneers Re-create authentic pioneer dances with your friends or church group using this easy-to-understand book and DVD set Packed with information on performing each step, dressing in historical costumes, and adapting the dances for our day, this is an invaluable...

Everything you want to know about the fabulousness that is Eurovision! The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the world's longest running TV programs, and has become a much loved tradition across the world. From the spandex to the glitter, ABBA to Lordi, and...

Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. Cultural liberation and musical innovation. Pyrotechnics, bottle service, bass drops, and molly. Electronic dance music has been a vital force for more than three decades now, and has undergone transformation upon transformation as it has taken over the world....

If you want to know how it feels to be the DJ, to share the music you love with other people, to receive the adulation of packed dancefloors night after night, this book will show you exactly what to do to get there. Whether...

In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. These distinctive folk dances,...

Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danz first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in nineteenth-century Cuba. By the early twentieth-century, it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean basin. A...

Astor Piazzolla was a musical genius, a man who used the national dance of Argentina as raw material for a whole new musical genre. In Le Grand Tango, Mar? Susana Azzi and Simon Collier vividly capture the life of this extraordinary musician--a visionary who...

Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture -- principally music and dance -- is used to construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth subculture. This community finds its home on Dubsmash, a social media app...

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also the Bard's contemporaries (e.g., dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most refined Renaissance dance aficionados), the originality of this volume...

Legendary drum & bass magazine Knowledge returns for a one-off special book to celebrate their 25th anniversary. It's been ten years since the last issue and five years since they called it a day and over the years people have clamoured for it's return...

Dancer-choreographer-directors Fred Astaire, George Balanchine and Gene Kelly and their colleagues helped to develop a distinctively modern American film-dance style and recurring dance genres for the songs and stories of the American musical. Freely crossing stylistic and class boundaries, their dances were rooted in...

Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc., rocked dance floors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. In Legions of Boom noted music and...

THE WORLD OF DJS AND THE TURNTABLE CULTUREAuthor: Todd SouvignierISBN-10: 0634058339ISBN-13: 9780634058332Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 333Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 8.78h x 6.00w x 0.84d

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 37 hits from the EDM genre are featured in this collection for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: 2U (David Guetta feat. Justin Bieber) * Closer (The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey) * Cold Water (Major Lazer) * Don't Let Me Down (The Chainsmokers feat....

If you have ever dreamed of being a DJ with people dancing to your music and all whilst having the time of your life then this book will show you how.From the bedroom to the hottest clubs, events and mainstage festivals.Whether you're a seasoned...

Winner, Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2010The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During...

Few narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by former Black Panther activist Nile Rodgers and down-home family man Bernard Edwards, are one...

Practice some colorfully meditative self-care with Susan Boyle Beautiful Adult Coloring Book. Color away the stress and start enjoying life at its fullest.Author: Cheryl BlakeISBN-10: 864205381XISBN-13: 9798642053812Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2020Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11d

An illustrated A-to-Z, celebrating the unparalleled artistic impact of the cultural icon Grace Jones. Singer, songwriter, supermodel, record producer, actress, and iconoclast, Grace Jones is truly one of a kind, equal parts intriguing, intimidating, and indefatigable. From her early days as a model working...

Since the dawn of the 1990s, British dance music has been in thrall to the seductive power of weighty sub-bass. It is a key ingredient in a string of British-pioneered genres, including hardcore, jungle, drum & bass, dubstep, UK garage and grime. In Join...

After part 1, world renowned dance music producer Maarten Vorwerk is back with 104 new tips and tricks. Completing a full 5 years of weekly tips. He shines his light on every aspect of the music industry but mostly focuses on practical mixing and...

As UK government legislation, standardised music and bad drugs forced the euphoria of the rave into the darkness, a new underground movement emerged - jungle/drum & bass. It was the true sound of the beating heart of 1990s UK. A melting pot of Britain's...

The acclaimed and wildly outlandish inside account of England's most notorious music club, The Hacienda, from Peter Hook, the New York Times bestselling author of Unknown Pleasures and co-founder of Joy Division and New Order--a story of music, gangsters, drugs, and violence, available for...

(DJ Instruction). From old-school vinyl records to today's all-digital music platforms, the modern DJ has a huge variety of choices and information to navigate. Look no further than this unique book and video reference guide by seasoned pro DJ Hapa, who provides a wealth...

Madchester may have been born at the Ha輅enda in the summer of 1988, but the city had been in creative ferment for almost a decade prior to the rise of acid house. The end-of-the-century party is the definitive account of a generational shift in...

Kentuckians have been wearing out shoe leather at informal jamborees since the state was settled over two hundred years ago. Tadpole's Dew Drop Inn played host to some fifteen hundred musical shindigs in its time as a mecca of Marshall County music. A Rosine...

Swedish-born traditional dancer and researcher Mats Melin has worked and performed extensively in the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, in their schools and communities promoting Scottish traditional dance. He has also taught and performed in Sweden, Canada, USA, Russia and New Zealand....

In the 1980s, the city of Chicago gave birth to the world's most popular music genre today known as House Music. For many who are familiar with electronic music and rave culture, House is a name synonymous with deep passion. In 1977, it became...

This book draws attention to the reception of Oskar Kolberg's folklorist's work outside of Poland. It also presents the work of other scholars active in Eastern Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day and reflects on how Kolberg's work is being continued...