{"product_id":"dance-your-way-home-a-journey-through-the-dancefloor-9780571366033","title":"Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis 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 . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDancing 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the intersection of memoir, social and cultural history, \u003ci\u003eDance Your Way Home \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Warren\u003c\/b\u003e has been documenting grassroots music culture for decades. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMake Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), which was a \u003ci\u003eMOJO\u003c\/i\u003e book of the year and was re-released by Chicago record label International Anthem; her pamphlet \u003ci\u003eSteam Down: Or How Things Begin\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), which was published by Rough Trade Books and was named an Irish Times read of the year; and \u003ci\u003eDocument Your Culture: A Manual\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWarren was a founding contributor to \u003ci\u003eJockey Slut\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, worked on staff at \u003ci\u003eThe Face\u003c\/i\u003e and worked as the editorial mentor at youth-run Brixton publication \u003ci\u003eLive Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. Her monthly radio show on Worldwide FM ran for six years.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50651844149522,"sku":"9780571366033","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0efa9fc9-7057-4e37-9a16-3189e515fd1c.jpg?v=1733310800","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dance-your-way-home-a-journey-through-the-dancefloor-9780571366033","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}