Can you feel it? DJs and House Music culture in the UK
1992; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0261143000005031
ISSN1474-0095
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
ResumoI spent the summer of 1990 studying the work of disk jockeys involved in the ‘House’ club scene in London, Manchester and Belfast. What I was initially intrigued by was how a popular music genre could develop such a following, indeed, some notoriety, without the traditional trappings of ‘rock 'n' roll’ (‘star performers’, ‘groups’), and without a manifest ideological stance adopted in relation to mainstream lifestyles. I came to conclude that a shift of meanings had occurred in the activity of mass dancing to records during the late 1980s, a shift which has created a new and central role for disk jockeys.
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