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Welcome to our latest author Q&A, where we chat to the writers behind new and upcoming 33 1/3 books! Today C.C. McKee talks to us about Aqua’s rapid rise to fame and why she chose to write about these Danish Eurodance icons for her 33 1/3 book. How would you describe your book in one […]
33 1/3 Author Q&A: A Closer Look at Aqua’s Aquarium Read More »
Upon its release in 1997, Aqua’s Aquarium became an instant classic for many queer music-lovers. In today’s blog post, C.C. McKee explores ‘Aqua’s camp approach to dance music’. It was this exploration that led McKee to create Aqualaxy, a “creative archive” of covers by contemporary queer and trans* electronic musicians. Keep reading to find out more.
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In Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of the One, the music ethnologist Rickey Vincent (1996) decries Eurodisco productions for a lack of a cohesive musical song dramaturgy. They were, he says, “producer-made tunes” generally lacking in a sense of sequence, i.e. beginning, build-up, catharsis, release. They relied instead on being simple and catchy enough “to bring rhythmless suburbanites and other neophytes flocking to plush dance clubs at strip malls from coast to coast”. By song dramaturgy, what he is actually talking about, rather than story told through lyrics, is a kind of narrative structure that might be found purely in the music instead.
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