This course examines how knowledge about rave and raving has been and is historically produced. Through engagement with musical recordings, visual sources, and literature on historical dancefloors, this course offers a selection of approaches to dance music history, with a focus on the early-rave era of the late-1980s and early-1990s in the United Kingdom. It engages with myth-making in dance music history and aims to equip students with the critical tools necessary to engage with historical depictions of musical practice and their implications in the present. In particular, this course interrogates the relationship between dance, race, gender, sexuality, altered states and politics. Methodologically, students will be challenged to think about how we can archive the sound and movement of the dancefloor and translate it into writing and other forms of intellectual production.
- Kursverantwortliche/r: Harry Edwards