This is Our House: House Music, Cultural Spaces and Technologies (Routledge Revivals)

Originally Published In 1998. House Music Has Had A Considerable Influence In Shaping The Sound Of Pop Music From The Late 1980s Onwards. From Underground Dance Events To The Pop Charts, Traces Of This Aesthetic Can Be Found In Many Guises. This Book Traces A Genealogy Of House And Maps Some Of The Power Structures That Are At Play In Its Production And Consumptoin. Places Like Chicago, New York, London, Manchester, Amsterdam And Rotterdam Have Been Visited, Providing The Material To Discuss Such Subjects As Contemporary Dance Culture, Djs And The Roles Of Musical Technologies. The Author, Hillegonda Rietveld, Was Already Steeped In Dance Club Culture Before She Decided To Write This Loving Piece Of Academic Prose About House. Taking Critical Culture Studies As Its Aesthetic Fuel, She Ram-raids Boundaries Of Academic Disciplines, Fusing Ideas Like A Meticulous Djing Curator. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Part I: Introduction 12 1. House is a feeling 14 Part II: A definition of love 24 2. The house that Jack built 26 3. Rave on 50 4. Cyber clogs 80 Part III: Jack into electromagic 108 5. Disco's revenge 110 6. Digital desire 132 7. Spectacular disappearance 174 Part IV: Epilogue 218 8. This is our house 220 Part V: Sources 226 Printed material 228 Audio material 253 Audio-visual material 257 Lyrics 257 Discography 257 Part VI: Appendices 270 A: Hillegonda re-enters the studio 272 B: Dance music compilations 276 C: Specialist press 280 D: Disco DJs 284 E: La Gonda 286