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DANCE OR DIE: A HISTORY OF HARDCORE by Holly Dicker

DANCE OR DIE: A HISTORY OF HARDCORE by Holly Dicker

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129 x 198mm, 282 pages, Black white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025 What is hardcore? It means many things to many people, and they’re all correct. It’s best described as a feeling, an attitude, a way of life. Dance or Die is the first critical study of city-based hard dance communities spanning three decades of musical reinvention mapped to sweeping gentrification, political intervention and seismic societal change. From its 1990 Frankfurt techno genesis, hardcore has shattered into a myriad subgenres and discrete club tribes, but the core of hardcore has always stood for marginalise

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