Scene
Written by Holly Dicker, a new book titled Dance or Die: A History of Hardcore, a critical and expansive study of hardcore as a music genre, a subculture, and an enduring “phuture” rave movement, is coming out via Velocity Press on June 6.
Otherwise, the author Holly Dicker covers the hardcore scene for Mixmag magazine, featuring interviews with artists and hardcore fanatics to explore more than three decades of the musical and cultural movement. He is a journalist, writer, and broadcaster who, in this book, collected portraits and accounts of longtime scene figures, artists, and fans from its 30-plus-year history.
According to Mixmag, Michaelangelo Matos, author of The Underground is Massive, says: “Holly Dicker’s definitive chronicle charts the amazing, ridiculous rise of the most outrageous club music in history with a journalist’s eye and a raver’s mania.”
In addition to this book, Dicker produced the film Rotterdam Rave Culture, a documentary which first screened earlier this year.
You can preorder the book here.
