History is made at night

"Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimp...

US pop artist Robert Rauschenberg died yesterday aged 82. He was apparently raised as a Christian fundamentalist, but gave up his plans to ...

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...

Hella Good by No Doubt (2001) is one of the many songs which command the listener to dance. In fact the oft-repeated chorus simply affirms ...

England: Norfolk rave shut down ( Norwich Evening News , 14 April 2008) 'Three people were arrested when an illegal rave was shut down ...

Norwegian Black Metal really isn’t my thing, but luckily there are others out there surveying its murky waters. Valter at Documents has wri...

I wasn't sure about going to see Grant Gee and Jon Savage's new Joy Division documentary so soon after weeping my way through Contr...

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

Is there ever a time when it's not OK to dance? Of course there have always been priests telling people not to dance on sabbaths, but wh...

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...

Expect to read a lot this year about the 20 th anniversary of acid house in the UK. There’s a new Danny Rampling '20 years of house...

I have recently been re-reading some essays written in the 1980s by Marxist/Feminist cultural critic Judith Williamson , collected together ...

'A Tibetan singer well known as a feminist activist has been taken by Chinese authorities and her family has received no word of her fat...

In Night haunts: a journey through the London Night (Verso, 2007), Sukhdev Sandhu asks ‘Whatever happened to the London night?’, arguing th...

'Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly i...

In Susan Seidelman's 1985 film, bored housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) swaps lives with bohemian rock chick/gangster's moll Susa...

Last week in Lancashire a 15 -year-old was convicted to 'stamping to death a young woman in a park because she was dressed as a Goth ...