{"product_id":"dance-or-die-a-history-of-hardcore-9781913231859","title":"Dance or Die: A History of Hardcore","description":"What is hardcore? It means many things to many people, and they're all correct. It's best described as a feeling, an attitude, and a way of life. Hardcore is niche, schismatic, and a global phenomenon that refuses to die. Because hardcore will never die. Its symbols have been tattooed onto millions of bodies and its relics passed down through the generations, as its sounds resound worldwide. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDance or Die\u003c\/i\u003e is the first critical and expansive study of hardcore as a music, a subculture and an enduring \"phuture\" rave movement, full of colourful anecdotes and first person accounts from artists, fans and the core of hardcore. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis diehard anthology tracks the outsiders and outcasts who banded together to party, in protest, over more than 30 years of obnoxious rebellion, in ecstasy and escape, as a nighttime community more family than family, who need this hard, loud, fast\/slow, aggressive, noisy, occasionally silly, kick drum or breakbeat-driven dance music, to connect with people, to survive the world, and to get through the week. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardcore: Either you're in, or you're out. And if you're in, you're in all the way, diehard and dancing to the death. Dance or Die!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Holly Dicker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Velocity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.14h x 7.79w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913231859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDicker, Holly:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHolly Dicker\u003c\/b\u003e is a club culture journalist, independent radio broadcaster and author of Dance or Die: A History of Hardcore, the first critical and expansive study of hardcore as a music, subculture and way of life. Holly has bylines in The Wire, The Guardian, Mixmag, Electronic Beats, DJ Mag and Resident Advisor, where she was a former staff writer. She has written long form pieces on historic techno and rave institutions such as Tresor and Thunderdome and is an authority on Dutch gabber subculture as curator of the multimedia exhibition A Brief History of Gabber for Google Arts \u0026amp; Culture.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Holly Dicker \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47493633933469,"sku":"9781913231859","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_8e622aef-de4d-4732-8679-963b02d2e4ff.jpg?v=1766121633","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/dance-or-die-a-history-of-hardcore-9781913231859","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}