History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Tina Modotti

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Tina Modotti (1896-1942) is best known as photographer, but her's was one of those lives that joined the dots between different radica...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

More Silent Raves

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Earlier this month, police staged an operation to prevent a silent rave at Glasgow's central station . Elsewhere people did manage to pu...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Miners Strike: (2) Kent; (3) Dick Gaughan

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Following my earlier post about the 25th anniversary of the Miners Strike , here's some recollections of being a strike supporter in Ken...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Sapeurs of Bakongo

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Interesting review by Dylan Jones of Gentlemen Of Bakongo, Daniele Tamagni's book chronicling "a journey with the Sapeurs of the B...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Flash Mob Simulacrum Continued

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Following the analysis here of the recent T-Mobile pseudo-flash mob , I notice that Stewart Home was actually inadvertently present at Liver...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Moving Gallery - The Mysterium

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Moving Gallery - The Mysterium was an event held at Trinity College of Music in Greenwich last month (19th February) as part of In the Momen...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Miners Strike (1): Here We Go

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As many people have mentioned over the last couple of weeks, it is 25 years since the start of the last great Miners Strike in Britain. On 5...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Dancing and Xhosa Resistance

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The revolt of the Xhosa against the British colonial forces in early 19th century South Africa was marked by dancing. Like the Native Americ...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Musical Psych Ops in Kent

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Poor Joe Strummer must be turning in his grave at the latest abuse of his music: 'A report into the policing of last year's Climate ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Artists and Borders

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A campaign has been launched against the impact of the government's latest tightening of immigration controls on arts and music. Accordi...

Dancing Questionnaire (14): Paul from Twickenham

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1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing? My mum used to have a Felicity Kendall exercise tape, which she would have in a little...
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Monday, March 09, 2009

Anti-music Islamists Destroy Shrine

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William Dalrymple on the destruction of a Sufi shrine in Pakistan ( full article in yesterday's Observer ): 'Rahman Baba, "the ...
Saturday, March 07, 2009

Agit Disco

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Agit Disco is an archive project dedicated to political music, initiated by Stefan Szczelkun . The format is a series of CD length selecti...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Less than Zero

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Less than Zero (1985) by Brett Easton Ellis is, as everybody knows, a study in nihilism set among the young, bored and wealthy in 1980s Los...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Handsworth Songs

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Tate Britain in London is currently showing films by the Black Audio Film Collective , including the excellent Handsworth Songs (1986). Th...
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Sunday, March 01, 2009

Dancing Furries

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Crossing the Thames on the Millennium Bridge yesterday I came across a group of furries. Apparently there’s a whole international scene of ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Dancing Questionnaires (13): Tom from Cardiff

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Tom from Vamos a Bailar: Salsa in Cardiff and Around steps up: 1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing? Dancing to a rhythm’n’...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Dancing Questionnaires (12): Abbey from Boston

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The latest dancing questionnaire has been completed by Abbey who lives in the Boston, MA area. Her summer camp dancing adventures reminded m...
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Clubbed to Death

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I've posted this before at my south east London blog, Transpontine , but am reposting here as a follow up to the earlier Club UK post o...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Nigerian Islamists ban Dancing on Screen

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Islamic authorities in Kano State (northern Nigeria) have been enforcing a ban on showing 'singing and dancing on screen' claiming i...
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