History is made at night

In his essay on the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ), Hakim Bey considers 'TAZ as festival', the party as liberated space and time: ...

"House rent parties were a facet of Harlem life even before the Depression. An outgrowth of parlor socials and church suppers held to r...

Last month saw the death of Mick Mulligan , the English jazz trumpeter described in the 1950s Melody Maker as the King of the Ravers - and t...

Naturally the hype about Nu Rave is bound to give us older ravers cause for wonder. Simon Reynolds , reflecting on The Klaxons , notes the a...

Rituals and other social occasions are defined by different mixtures of particular musics, intoxicants and behaviours. For Burns Night (25 ...

"Hammersmith Palais - the legendary London music venue immortalised in song by The Clash - is to be demolished. The decision to close t...

" The Copacabana, the famed New York nightclub that entertained the smart set with a young Frank Sinatra in the '40s and was the ...

Account One, Manchester Indymedia : "Last night (21st Jan 2007 ) about two thousand party goers were attacked by police whilst attempti...

"Pleasure creates life. We do not want forced, guilt-ridden pleasures anymore. We want no more pleasures severed from total sexuality, ...

I have amended the tagline of this site from 'the politics of dancing' to 'the politics of dancing and musicking'. On this s...

Pinal County prohibition on outdoor dancing is as ridiculous as it is out of date Pinal County must be sponsoring its own rendition of the 1...

From yesterday's London Paper : Clubbers at a London venue where Pulp filmed their Common People video (pictured) have launched a campai...

Midnight No Light No Time No Work Midnight Secret Surprize Power Midnight Quote: Midnight Notes Photo : Singapore December 2006 by Abrilon

"In 1757 the following Bill, presented by Sir John Fielding, was passed by Parliament: 'Any house, room, garden or other place whic...

Metropolis in Motion is fighting to legalize dancing in New York City by repealing its arcane cabaret laws. They say: 'Ever since NYC M...

Some memories of early London ‘sound system culture’ in Notting Hill, late 1950s and early 1960s, a period punctuated by the 1958 riots as b...

Under the headline “An extraordinary ball — men dressed as women,” the cutting [from a local East End newspaper of 1879] tells of a dance he...

‘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...

'Dancing, particularly upon Sundays, had been the rage among young people before the war, but after the Occupa­tion was banned both by V...

1. Bristol area, 1611 'The village of Rangeworthy, a few miles north of Bristol, was a detached part of the large parish of Thornbury… I...