History is made at night

'Drag is about many things . It is about clothes and sex. It subverts the dress codes that tell us what men and women should look li...

India 'The Delhi Police on Monday busted a gang of snake smugglers and recovered four cobras and about half-a-litre of venom after a ...

Kind of fascinated by the politics of the prom, that seasonal culture war on the dancefloor . We don't have anything quite like it in B...

'Nine men dressed in women's clothing were arrested on New Year's Eve in the discotheque of a Manama, Bahrain, hotel and charged...

'Danger in Familiarities' - the American Social Hygiene Association advises on 'The Correct Dancing Position' from 1922: ...

Simon Reynolds kicked off a week of posts about The Sweet with the provocative question 'was there in fact a better British hard rock ...

Anita Berber (1899-1928) was a dancer in pre-Nazi Germany, famous/notorious for a life of bisexuality, drugs and semi-naked performance. Wit...

Some interesting reflections on tight trousers, masculinity and sexuality cropping up. The always excellent Pop Feminist has the remarkable...

In Defence of Disco by Richard Dyer was first published in the magazine Gay Left, Issue 8, in 1979. It has been republished in academic cont...

Carrying on the discussion about gender and dance music , here's an extract from 'Women and the Early British Rave Scene' by Mar...

Great post on house music and masculinity from a Jamaican in New York perspective at fem.men.ist (and interesting comments from a similar p...

The French novelist Sidonie -Gabrielle Colette (1873 -1954), known as Colette, lived life to the full in Fin de Siecle Paris, a period des...

Funny Marina Hyde article in The Guardian today about islamists and pop music. In Schmoozing with Terrorists, published this week, journali...

The Waltz was the focus of outrage as the dance spread from Austria and Germany to France and England in the late 18th and early 19th centur...

‘Some claim this dance received its name from a devil in woman's shape who appeared in Seville in the twelfth century, and who labeled i...