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 Lines is a groundbreaking new history of UK dance music, exploring its pivotal role in the social, political and economic shifts on which modern Britain has been built.
Taking in the Victorian moralism of the Thatcher years, the far-reaching restrictions of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994, and the resurgence of illegal raves during the Covid-19 pandemic, Party Lines charts an ongoing conflict, fought in basement clubs, abandoned warehouses and sunlit fields, between the revolutionary potential of communal sound and the reactionary impulses of the British establishment. Brought to life with stunning clarity and depth, this is social and cultural history at its most immersive, vital and shocking.
Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music by Paul Bradshaw Hardback
£30 GBP
Clubbed: a visual history of UK club culture
£46 GBP
Strange Things Are Happening by Richard Norris
£25 GBP
Let the Music Play: How R&B Fell in Love with 80s Synths by Steven Vass
£13 GBP
Welcome to the club: The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ by DJ Paulette
£18 GBP
[SIGNED EDITION] Welcome to the club: The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ by DJ Paulette
£23 GBP
NORMSKI: Man with the Golden Shutter
£45 GBP
Late Night Tales presents After Dark: Vespertine - by Bill Brewster
£25 GBP
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
£14 GBP
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
£12 GBP
Ibiza '89 by Dave Swindells
£37 GBP
Yo! The Early Days of Hip Hop 1982-84: Photography by Sophie Bramly
£32 GBP
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes
£19 GBP
[Vinyl Only] Running Back Mastermix: Wild Pitch Club by Ata & nd_baumecker (Part 1 & 2)
£27 GBP
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton
£29 GBP
Back To Mine: Good Times T-Shirt
£21 GBP
Back To Mine - Tycho –
2xLP 180gsm Heavyweight Vinyl
Various Artists
£22 GBP
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