Prep

• Meaghan Garvey, ‘From Teklife to the Next Life’, Pitchfork Review 6 (Spring 2015)
• Glasspiegel, Willis. 2014. ‘Footwork: 10 Essential Tracks’. An introduction to the long-running Chicago footwork movement—which is marked by hyperspeed dancing and equally frenetic beats—along with a playlist of tracks by innovators including DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, Traxman, and RP Boo.

Asynchronous Work

1. TBA

For Next Time

• Calvert, John. 2014. ‘“We are in the club, dancing, with no intention to stop”: The Secret World Of Japanese Footwork’. Noisey, 14 October. keywords: cultural appropriation;
• Video: ‘Sherelle | LDN: Bass & Percs Special’ (7 February 2019). This crackling Boiler Room DJ set made this young London DJ into an international hotcake. There’s much to remark upon here, including the miscegenation of various Afrodiasporic sample-based musical genres (footwork and UK jungle, primarily); the curious cross-cultural dissemination of footwork, a sound that’s not even well known domestically outside of Chicago; and the increasing significance of identity politics on the international club scene.