Name: Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain
Brand: Ed Gillett

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Catalogue number

9781529070644

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Format Books GB

Hardback

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Signed book plates by Ed Gillett

Limited edition

Release date

2023-08-03

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Supplier GB

Macmillan

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Hardback | Signed Copy

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Artist

Ed Gillett

Genre GB

Music

Label GB

Picador

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From the illicit reggae blues dances and acid-rock free festivals of the 1970s, through the ecstasy-fuelled Second Summer of Love in 1988, to the increasingly corporate dance music culture of the post-Covid era,&nbsp;Party Lines&nbsp;is a groundbreaking new history of UK dance music, exploring its pivotal role in the social, political and economic shifts on which modern Britain has been built.Taking in the Victorian moralism of the Thatcher years, the far-reaching restrictions of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994, and the resurgence of illegal raves during the Covid-19 pandemic,&nbsp;Party Lines&nbsp;charts an ongoing conflict, fought in basement clubs, abandoned warehouses and sunlit fields, between the revolutionary potential of communal sound and the reactionary impulses of the British establishment.Brought to life with stunning clarity and depth, this is social and cultural history at its most immersive, vital and shocking.

Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain

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