Discographies: Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound
In this fascinating study of dance music's formal, aesthetic and political properties, Jeremy Gilbert and Ewan Pearson team up to provide an authentic account of dance music. This is essential reading for anyone who considers dance music their lifestyle of choice.–URB MagazineGilbert and Pearson provide a fascinating, complex, and well-written analysis...the chapters on gender and sexuality and on technology are superb...it is sophisticated and important.  Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.–Choice, April 2000This is a lucid, informative, engagingly written and stimulating work.  It admirably covers a variety of different theoretical issues and takes off from dance to raise all sorts of questions about the treatment of music in cultural studies.–Simon Frith, University of Stirling...contemporary, committed and compelling.–Will Straw, McGill University