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TEN CITIES
Edited with text by Johannes Hossfeld, Joyce Nyairo, Florian Sievers. Text by Rui Miguel Abreu, Vitor Belanciano, Tony Benjamin, Danilo Capasso, Vincenzo Cavallo, Iain Chambers, Kateryna Dysa, Maha ElNabawi, Michelle Henning, Rehan Hyder, Rangoato Hlasane, Ângela Mingas, Ali Abdel Mohsen, et al.. Spector Books, I00210217, 2021. 8 x 11 in., 560 pages. Paperback. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
A nocturnal journey through local histories of clubbing in Nairobi, Cairo, Kyiv, Johannesburg, Berlin, Naples, Luanda, Lagos, Bristol, Lisbon, 1960–Present
The image of the DJ dragging his record case through international “non-places” and deejaying in clubs around the globe is a contemporary cliché. But these club scenes have rich, geographically differentiated local histories and cultures. This book expands the focus beyond the North Atlantic clubbing axis of Detroit–Chicago–Manchester–Berlin.
It looks at ten club capitals in Africa and Europe, reporting on different scenes in Bristol, Johannesburg, Cairo, Kyiv, Lagos, Lisbon, Launda, Nairobi and Naples. The local music stories, the scenes, the subcultures and their global networks are reconstructed in 21 essays and photo sequences.
The tale they tell is one of clubs as laboratories of otherness, in which people can experiment with new ways of being and assert their claim to the city. Ten Cities is a nocturnal, sound-driven journey through ten social and urban stories from 1960 through to the present. 9783944669793 Inventory Number: I00210217
