Party Lines
03 August 2023Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A Guardian Guide Cultural Book of the Year 2023
An Irish Times Music Book of the Year 2023
'A deep, engrossing history' The Observer
'A fascinating deep dive' Jeremy Deller
From the illicit reggae blues dances and acid-rock free festivals of the 1970s, through the ecstasy-fuelled Second Summer of Love in 1988, to the increasingly corporate dance music culture of the post-Covid era, Party...
Details
03 August 2023765 minutes
Ed Gillett
9781529070637Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Ed Gillett’s excellent history of UK dance culture, moves beyond the saucer-eyed clichés of the raver’s epiphany and towards a sharper sort of revelation . . . the politics of dancing expertly laid bare.Sunday Times
A fascinating deep dive into dance music's uneasy relationship with the establishment.Jeremy Deller
Engrossing history . . . a wide and deep undertakingBook of the Week, Observer
[A] well-researched, meaty account of dance music in the UK . . . an engrossing piece of modern social history.Books of the Month, Independent
