History is made at night

'Monica Sjöö: The time is NOW and it is overdue!'  at the Beaconsfield Gallery, London SE11 brings together a large collection of pa...

I've long been interested in dreams and visions of flight and space, something I experimented with a bit during the fantastic voyage of ...

The Guardian reported earlier this month (10 October): 'Iran's revolutionary guards have announced the arrest of "a network ...

No sooner has a dance craze exploded over the internet than it seems to emerge as a global protest meme. Protestors have been doing it Gan...

Robert Beckford's 'Jesus Dub: theology, music and social change' (London: Routledge, 2006) offers a 'dialogue between the cu...

For those who never stop complaining that there isn't enough dub in dubstep comes news that Tectonic Recordings are releasing a whole a...

My recent hypothesis that the vuvuzela is becoming the protest instrument of choice for the emerging movement against austerity has received...

The day before the national celebration of the storming of the Bastille in pursuit of liberty, the French government today passed a law bann...

Lahore Journal: Mystical Form of Islam Suits Sufis in Pakistan (New York Times, 25 February 2010) 'Thousands of Muslim worshipers paid t...

This sublime image has turned up on a number of blogs including Royal Quiet Deluxe and Lucky Charm (I was alerted to it by Drumz of the S...

The existence of gods, goddesses, spirits and saints of music and dance in religions and mythologies across the world is testament to the fu...

Interesting article by Robert Fisk in the Independent at the weekend (5 Dec 09) on Islamism and music: 'But music and Islam have a dodgy...

From the Observer, 6 December 2009 , by Martin Chulov: Baghdad's night life falls foul of religious right - Iraqi prime minister Nouri a...

In England the 17th century saw frequent conflict between church authorities and people who wished to dance or otherwise enjoy themselves on...

Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances is a new blog looking at music/culture/politics through the unusual lens of a South London based vo...

'Teenager Tyler Frost has been suspended from his US Baptist school for breaking strict 'no dancing' rules by attending his girl...

'Lahore is a city that has to fight for its cultural survival. The growing influence of the Taliban, although hundreds of kilometres to ...

'A rising musical star was allegedly shot dead by her own brothers in the conservative city of Peshawar in Pakistan last week after she ...

I enjoyed Jim Shaw's The Whole: a study in Oist Movement exhibition at the Simon Lee gallery in London. The underlying premise of the ...

The revolt of the Xhosa against the British colonial forces in early 19th century South Africa was marked by dancing. Like the Native Americ...