Dance Your Way Home by Emma Warren (Signed copies!)

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Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor by Emma Warren

Signed by Emma Warren

Published: 4 April, 2024

Paperback: 416 pages

Faber & Faber

The books that you will occasionally find for sale here are - if not directly related to the label or our artists - either titles that we really rate or happen to be on subjects that are of interest to us personally and therefore, we assume, could well appeal to you to.

Take this one for example, Emma Warren’s ‘Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor’. Emma is a fantastic writer and historian who often writes the bios for Heavenly artists. Her previously published pamphlets documented the community and creative spirits of specific venues and the people who made them matter. ‘Dance Your Way Home' opens up those stories to cover the broader picture across multiple generations.

A landmark social history of the dancefloor that gets to the heart of what it is that makes us move.

This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It’s more than a social history: it’s a set of interconnected histories of the overlooked places where dancing happens . . .

Why do we dance together? What does dancing tells us about ourselves, individually and collectively? And what can it do for us? Whether it be at home, ’80s club nights, Irish dancehalls or reggae dances, jungle raves or volunteer-run spaces and youth centres, Emma Warren has sought the answers to these questions her entire life.

Dancing doesn’t just refract the music and culture within which it evolves; it also generates new music and culture. When we speak only of the music, we lose part of the story – the part that finds us dancing as children on the toes of adults; the half that triggers communication across borders and languages; the part that finds us worried that we’ll never be able to dance again, and the part that finds us wondering why we were ever nervous in the first place.

At the intersection of memoir, social and cultural history, Dance Your Way Home is an intimate foray onto the dancefloor – wherever and whenever it may be – that speaks to the heart of what it is that makes us move.

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Emma Warren is an experienced speaker, author, and broadcaster working across genres. Her work includes fanzines, specialist music stations, mainstream press and radio, and branded content. In 2019 she published Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre on her own Sweet Machine Publishing imprint and as an audiobook. In addition to working for six years on youth-run Live Magazine in south London, she also published Steam Down: How Things Begin on Rough Trade Books. Until it’s recent closure Emma had an essential monthly radio show on Worldwide FM