The Post-Punk Explosion Part 4: Alt-Dance

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Dancing is as old as the human race…not long after we started walking on two legs, we found a groove and have been moving to the music ever since… Fast-forward several million years and we find that wherever there’s music, there’s dancing that goes along with it…okay, maybe they didn’t exactly bust a move to medieval hymns in the gothic cathedrals, but there had to be at least some swaying going on… We can’t help but move to the music….scientists have documented connections between the aural cortex and the movement centres of our brain…the millisecond we hear music, the motor cortex lights up, indicating a relationship between music, emotion, and the need to move in time with the music…in other words, we seem to be pre-wired to dance…not dancing (or at least moving to music) is unnatural… This caused some problems with some rock fans in the 1970s…dancing was seen as uncool, unless you were pogoing or slam-dancing to a punk band…and when disco came along—the most uncool music and scene of all—dancing was almost a crime…what were you, some disco weirdo?... Fortunately, that moratorium on dancing did not last long…the music and music fans needed to evolve to another level…and when that happened, dancing became not just okay but it was cool once again… This is a look at how that happened in the years immediately following the punk rock of the 1970s…it’s part four of the post-punk explosion—and it’s all about alt-dance… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing
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0:09.3	One thing before we start the show.
0:11.2	I want to let you know about a special interview you'll hear at the end of this episode.
0:15.6	It's with a host of a brand-new podcast called ArtCatex, the Architects of Art.
0:23.1	The cool thing is this show is hosted by Director X and Tash Critchlow, two of the biggest music video directors on the planet. These guys are
0:28.7	responsible for game-changing videos from artists like Drake and Coldplay and Kendrick Lamar and so many
0:33.6	more. Hope you enjoyed the discussion. I sure did. That's coming up at the end of this episode.
0:38.6	All right, let's get on with things. Dancing is as old as the human race. Not long after we started
0:44.7	walking on two legs, we found a groove and have been moving to the music ever since.
0:50.2	Fast forward several million years, and we find that wherever there's music, there's dancing
0:55.2	that goes along with it.
0:57.0	Okay, so maybe they didn't exactly bust a move to medieval hymns and Gothic cathedrals, but
1:01.7	there at least had to be some swaying going on.
1:05.1	We can't help but move to music.
1:08.5	Scientists have documented connections between the oral cortex and the movement centers
1:12.5	of our brain.
1:13.9	The millisecond we hear music, the motor cortex lights up, indicating a relationship between
1:19.3	music, emotion, and the need to move in time with the music.
1:23.3	In other words, we seem to be pre-wired to dance.
1:27.3	Not dancing, or at least moving to music in some way, is unnatural.
1:32.7	This caused some problems with some rock fans in the 1970s.
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