Simon A. Morrison is Programme Leader for Music Journalism at the University of Chester, UK. He is author of the book Discombobulated (2010) and has reported on the music scene everywhere from Beijing to Brazil; Moscow to Marrakech. He edited Ministry of Sound’s Ibiza magazine and has also produced and presented TV and radio. A screenplay he penned, based on a story he wrote for The Guardian, is about to be produced by the BBC, for broadcast in 2019.
[An] excellent book ... A particular strength of this book is Morrison’s ability to dance between literary theory, thick description, journalistic interviews and unabashed connoisseurship with elegance and ease. ... Highly recommended. * Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture * Simon A. Morrison appears from his discombobulating adventures to take the reader on a unique tour of the rave scene through a study of dance-driven literature. Following on from Sarah Champion’s edited collections of rave inspired short stories and Steve Redhead’s introduction to 'repetitive beat generation' authors, he shows how fiction conveys the subjective experiences of electronic dance music culture through a range of approaches that can be beneficial to the further development of subcultural studies. * Hillegonda C Rietveld, Professor of Sonic Culture, School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University, UK * Morrison analyses hallucinatory stories of the 1990s dance floor, documenting the emergence of a new literary genre. He shows how the intermediation of music and language created an experimental form of writing with the DJ as modern minstrel and the author as subcultural mischief-maker. A witty, fascinating, immersive study. * Lucy O'Brien, Senior Lecturer, London College of Music, University of West London, UK, and author of She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music (2012) *