Tami Gadir is Lecturer in Music Industry at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Gadir's research addresses the social and political mechanisms of musical life.

Amidst a recent wave of books on dance music and club culture, Tami Gadir's Dance Music stands out. Gadir celebrates the ways in which dance floors may be spaces of self-realization and community, but goes further than most in capturing the ways such spaces are fraught with risk, anxiety, and the violence of oppression. Commonplace ideas about club culture-like those claiming the 'transcendence' of dance floor experience-are scrutinized with care and a sharp sense of their political stakes. Well-written and impeccably researched, this is an important contribution to an expanding field.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Dance Music Histories 2. Dance Music Studies3. Location, Regulation, and Night-Time Danger 4. Transcendence5. “This One's for the Ladies”: Gender Trouble in Sound and Dance6. “It's Not About Gender”: Merit, Talent, and Other MythsConclusion: Dance Music is OrdinaryAcknowledgementsBibliographyIndex

Tami Gadir is Lecturer in Music Industry at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Gadir's research addresses the social and political mechanisms of musical life.

Amidst a recent wave of books on dance music and club culture, Tami Gadir's Dance Music stands out. Gadir celebrates the ways in which dance floors may be spaces of self-realization and community, but goes further than most in capturing the ways such spaces are fraught with risk, anxiety, and the violence of oppression. Commonplace ideas about club culture-like those claiming the 'transcendence' of dance floor experience-are scrutinized with care and a sharp sense of their political stakes. Well-written and impeccably researched, this is an important contribution to an expanding field.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Dance Music Histories 2. Dance Music Studies3. Location, Regulation, and Night-Time Danger 4. Transcendence5. “This One's for the Ladies”: Gender Trouble in Sound and Dance6. “It's Not About Gender”: Merit, Talent, and Other MythsConclusion: Dance Music is OrdinaryAcknowledgementsBibliographyIndex

Tami Gadir is Lecturer in Music Industry at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Gadir's research addresses the social and political mechanisms of musical life.

Amidst a recent wave of books on dance music and club culture, Tami Gadir's Dance Music stands out. Gadir celebrates the ways in which dance floors may be spaces of self-realization and community, but goes further than most in capturing the ways such spaces are fraught with risk, anxiety, and the violence of oppression. Commonplace ideas about club culture-like those claiming the 'transcendence' of dance floor experience-are scrutinized with care and a sharp sense of their political stakes. Well-written and impeccably researched, this is an important contribution to an expanding field.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Dance Music Histories 2. Dance Music Studies3. Location, Regulation, and Night-Time Danger 4. Transcendence5. “This One's for the Ladies”: Gender Trouble in Sound and Dance6. “It's Not About Gender”: Merit, Talent, and Other MythsConclusion: Dance Music is OrdinaryAcknowledgementsBibliographyIndex