Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor
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This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It’s more than a social history: it’s a set of interconnected histories of the overlooked places where dancing happens . . .
Why do we dance together? What does dancing tells us about ourselves, individually and collectively? And what can it do for us? Whether it be at home, ’80s club nights, Irish dancehalls or reggae dances, jungle raves or volunteer-run spaces and youth centres, Emma Warren has sought the answers to these questions her entire life.
Dancing doesn’t just refract the music and culture within which it evolves; it also generates new music and culture. When we speak only of the music, we lose part of the story – the part that finds us dancing as children on the toes of adults; the half that triggers communication across borders and languages; the part that finds us worried that we’ll never be able to dance again, and the part that finds us wondering why we were ever nervous in the first place.
At the intersection of memoir, social and cultural history, Dance Your Way Home is an intimate foray onto the dancefloor – wherever and whenever it may be – that speaks to the heart of what it is that makes us move.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Faber & Faber, Main edition (16 Mar. 2023) |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 416 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0571366031 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0571366033 |
| Dimensions | 13.5 x 2.9 x 21.6 cm |
by Kevin Braddock
What a wonderful book. Here the author centres the dancer (and after all, we all dancers…) and the act of dancing and what it means in this book which journeys through a whole range of dancefloors, scenes, music genres and social situations, reminding us of the power of dancing together and the way it can tell us so much about ourselves and the world around us. It literally makes you wanna get up and dance, or go out and find a dancefloor. As a narrative it’s brilliantly told and strikes a great balance between research, memoir and a point of view on the value of dancing. I learned a lot reading this and really felt something special about it. I don’t dance enough, and after reading this book, I decided to dance more. Thanks for writing it Emma, look forward to the next one