Party Lines - Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain

<p>A <i>Guardian Guide</i> Cultural Book of the Year 2023<br>An <i>Irish Times</i> Music Book of the Year 2023<br><b>'A deep, engrossing history' <i>The Observer</i><br>'A fascinating deep dive' Jeremy Deller</b><br><br>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, <i>Party Lines </i>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.<br><br>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, <i>Party Lines </i>charts an ongoing conflict, fought