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List of Illustrations | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introductions | |
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Discovering the Underground: Entry to the Field | |
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The Objective of Investigation: Underground Dance Music | |
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Why study Underground Dance Music? The role of New York City | |
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Music and Marginality | |
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The Purpose of a Study of Underground Dance Music | |
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A Definition of Underground | |
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A Definition of Dance Music | |
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The Relationship of underground Dance Music to New York City | |
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Meditated music and musical immediacy | |
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The music-dance relationship in social dance | |
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Research phases | |
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Ethnography and ethno history: A brief detour | |
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Disco: The Premise for Underground Dance Music | |
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Literature on disco and dance music | |
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Social dance in America: The African American continuum | |
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Social dancing in New York: The Gay Factor | |
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The Cult And Culture of The DJ | |
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Vinyl records as meditated music | |
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The disco concept: Meditated music and musical immediacy | |
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The art of spinning: The DJ as musician | |
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DJ technology 8 DJ repertoire: Programming versus mixing | |
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Peaking the floor | |
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Beyond mixing: The DJ as cultural hero | |
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The rise of the club DJ: Remix and production work | |
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Conclusion: Why 12-inch vinyl is critical | |
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The Dancers: Working (It) Out | |
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Dancing: Interactive versus collective performance | |
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The body as musical instrument | |
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A definition of dance | |
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The body as social instrument | |
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The body as social instrument: Dance, identity, marginality | |
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Clubbing in the field: Underground dance venues in New York City | |
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Interactive performance: The musical process and cultural context of underground dance music | |
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Conclusion: Keep on dancing | |
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Underground Dancing: Autonomy And Interdependence in Music and Dance | |
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Interactive performance: Synchronicity beyond simultaneity | |
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Vibe: the booth-floor interaction | |
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Rhythm as primary link between sound and motion | |
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Changing modes of dance music production | |
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A comparison of for 12-inch dance singles | |
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Conclusion: Feel the vibe | |
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The Underground As Cultural Context: The Marginality of Ethnic and Sexual Minorities | |
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Gay culture and black culture | |
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Double marginality, social affinity | |
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Historical links between African-American and gay culture | |
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The discotheque and gay liberation | |
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The African American imprint: The discotheque as church | |
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Conclusion: Underground dance music as a celebration of marginality | |
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Outlook: Underground Dance Music Beyond The 1990's | |
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Appendix: A Selection of 100 UDM Records | |
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Notes | |
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Glossary | |
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Text and Image | |
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Second Recordings | |
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Index | |