Dance Music Spaces

Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo

doi:10.5771/9781793607553

Summary

Dance Music Spaces examines the production of physical and digital spaces in dance music, and how the players—clubs, clubbers, and DJs—use authenticity, branding, and commercialism to navigate them. An in-depth study into three women DJs—The Blessed Madonna, Honey Dijon, and Peggy Gou—reveals a new concept, “authenticity maneuvering.” In it Danielle Hidalgo exposes how the strategic use of a rave ethos both bolsters acceptance in dance music spaces and hides often problematic commercial practices. This timely, thoughtful, and deeply personal book presents a compelling analysis of the complicated interplay between dancing bodies, digital practices, and spatial offerings in contemporary dance music.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-0754-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-0755-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 184
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. List of Figures No access
4. List of Figures No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. The Literature and Methods Used: “I Just Believe House Is the Mother of Them All” No access
  2. The Data Collection No access
2. Chapter Summaries No access
3. Notes No access
1. PLUR and Contemporary Dance Music No access
2. 1. Rethinking Our Temporal Dimensions: “Leaving time behind for a little while” No access
  2. Slipping into Another Space, Even Momentarily No access
  3. Crossing Boundaries: “Where You’re Absolutely Free” No access
  4. Leaving Better than We Came: Timelessness as Necessary No access
3. Where the Dance Music Industry Fails No access
4. The “Bro” Side of Dance Music v. Its DIY History and House Music No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. The Blessed Madonna: A Different Kind of DJ No access
2. Honey Dijon: #honeyfuckingdijon Takes on Dance Music No access
3. Peggy Gou: The Age of Gou-Mania No access
4. Conclusions No access
5. Notes No access
1. NYE 2017/2018 No access
2. NYE 2018/2019 No access
3. A Postrave Era: Making Sense of Today’s Dance Music Spaces No access
4. PLUR and the Dance Floor: Then and Now No access
5. Connecting on the Dance Floor: “God isn’t silent. God is loud” No access
6. Warm, Loving Interactions with Strangers No access
7. 1. 1. How Alcohol and Harassment Operates No access
    2. Dancing into Timelessness No access
8. 1. New Technologies: Smartphones On and Off the Dance Floor No access
  2. Celebrity DJs and the Dance Floor No access
9. Conclusions No access
10. Notes No access
1. 1. How Social Media Transformed Club Culture No access
  2. DJs’ Branding: Making Money on Fame No access
2. 1. 1. DJs Using Their Platform for Activism, Personal Empowerment, and Love: “Making the World that I Am Advocating For” No access
    2. Love Yourself and Each Other No access
    3. “Music, For Me, Is Like Love” No access
    4. Taking Breaks and Paying Attention to Mental Health No access
3. Conclusions No access
4. Notes No access
1. 1. Steve Aoki’s Cake-ing No access
  2. 1. The Spectacle and Peggy Gou’s Superstardom No access
2. 1. Making Sense of Dance Music Today No access
  2. 1. A Model for Creating a “Positive Environment” No access
  3. 1. Selling Out in Riyadh and Elsewhere: “Taste” as an Explanation for Choosing Money Over Love No access
3. 1. Another Way: 59 Rue de Rivoli No access
  2. “We Still Believe” This Must be the Place No access
4. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 163 - 174
Index No access Pages 175 - 182
About the Author No access Pages 183 - 184