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Dreams Machines: Electronic Music, From Dr Who to Acid House
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Matthew Collin
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Dreams Machines: Electronic Music, From Dr Who to Acid House
Label
Omnibus Press
Release Date
April 12, 2024

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    9781913172558

    • 234 x 156mm
    • 416pp
    • 2x8pp colour photo sections

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Finally, the whole story of the rise of electronic music as a cultural movement from the 1940s to the 1980s. The first extensive social history of electronic music, looking at how the music evolved and mutated against the backdrop of social and political changes in society - from the beginning of the 1960s, amid the optimism for the ‘space age’ and a new technologically-enhanced prosperity, through the struggles for social justice of the late 1960s and 1970s to the era of entrepreneurialism and the end of the post-war social consensus in the 1980s. The book explores how life as it was experienced by young people in those years affected the sounds that they made, how electronic music provided an outlet for progressive thinkers to express non-mainstream ideas about gender roles and sexuality, and how it continued to inspire subcultures that also nurtured black and gay musicians over these decades.

Matthew Collin has been writing about electronic dance music culture for over three decades. His critically-acclaimed books include Altered State and Rave On. He has written for many newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Observer, The Wire, Mojo and Mixmag.

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