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Emma Warren: Dance Your Way Home

Emma Warren: Dance Your Way Home

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Why do we dance together? What does dancing tell us about
ourselves, individually and collectively? And what can it do for
us? Whether it be at home, ’80s club nights, Irish dance halls 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. Recorded live at Green Man's
Talking Shop, Emma Warren chats to Richard King about her new book
Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through The Dancefloor. At the
intersection of memoir and social and cultural history, the book 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. Emma Warren has been documenting grassroots music
culture for decades. She is the author of Make Some Space: Tuning
Into Total Refreshment Centre (2019), which was a MOJO book of the
year and was re-released by Chicago record label International
Anthem; her pamphlet Steam Down: Or How Things Begin (2019), which
was published by Rough Trade Books was named an Irish Times read of
the year; and she published Document Your Culture: A Manual (2020).
Warren was a founding contributor to Jockey Slut magazine, worked
on staff at The Face and worked as the editorial mentor at
youth-run Brixton publication Live Magazine. Her monthly radio show
on Worldwide FM ran for six years. Dance Your Way Home is Emma’s
most recent book, published to wide critical-acclaim by Faber in
2023.