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The University of East London present:
Critical Beats: Electronic Dance Music, Club Culture & the East London Connection

The series will take the form of six talks and panel discussions involving some of the most active musicians, producers, critics and writers on the scene. Each event will be themed to explore a particular aspect of dance music and club culture as it manifests in East London and beyond.

 

#4: Dancing, Sound Systems and Party Environments
Thursday 14 June 2012
Tickets

Circus 2 at Stratford Circus, 7:30pm - 9:30pm, £3/£1

Why do different scenes generates different forms of dancing? How do differently configured sound systems create different party environments? Does the quality of sound matter anymore? Do we need DJs and party scenes now we've got the internet? Is London party culture suffering a death by property price inflation?

Panelists: Snowboy, Jeremy Gilbert, Julian Henriques, Colleen Murphy
Moderator: Tim Lawrence

Snowboy (a.k.a. Mark Cotgrove ) is the author of From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz: The History of the UK Jazz Dance Scene as well as a percussionist, DJ, music promoter and bandleader of Snowboy and the Latin Section.

Julian Henriques is the author of Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing.

Colleen Murphy (also known as DJ Cosmo) is a founding member of Lucky Cloud Sound System and the organiser of Classic Album Sundays. She has DJed at the Loft and Deep Space in New York.

Jeremy Gilbert is the co-author of Discographies: Dance Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound. He is a founding member of Lucky Cloud Sound System and DJs at Beauty and the Beat.