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    Out of Space How UK Cities Shaped Rave Culture

    Out of Space plots a course through the different UK towns and cities club culture has found a home. From Glasgow to Margate via Manchester, Sheffield and unlikely dance music meccas such as Coalville and Todmorden, this book maps where electronic music has thrived, and where it might be headed next…

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      Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology
      In Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit, Judith K. Brodsky makes a ground-breaking intellectual leap by connecting feminist art theory with the rise...
        Look & See: Collected Ephemera and Printed Material
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            When I Dare to Be Powerful
            Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female...
              Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
              Mary Seacole left her native Jamaica to travel through the Caribbean, The Bahamas, Central America and to England. Keen to offer her services to English...
                William S. BurroughsJunky
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                                Subcontinental SynthesisElectronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969-1972
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