The Post-Punk Explosion Part 4: Alt-Dance
Dancing is as old as the human race\u2026not long after we started walking on two legs, we found a groove and have been moving to the music ever since\u2026\n\nFast-forward several million years and we find that wherever there\u2019s music, there\u2019s dancing that goes along with it\u2026okay, maybe they didn\u2019t exactly bust a move to medieval hymns in the gothic cathedrals, but there had to be at least some swaying going on\u2026\n\nWe can\u2019t help but move to the music\u2026.scientists have documented connections between the aural cortex and the movement centres of our brain\u2026the 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\u2026in other words, we seem to be pre-wired to dance\u2026not dancing (or at least moving to music) is unnatural\u2026\n\nThis caused some problems with some rock fans in the 1970s\u2026dancing was seen as uncool, unless you were pogoing or slam-dancing to a punk band\u2026and when disco came along\u2014the most uncool music and scene of all\u2014dancing was almost a crime\u2026what were you, some disco weirdo?...\n\nFortunately, that moratorium on dancing did not last long\u2026the music and music fans needed to evolve to another level\u2026and when that happened, dancing became not just okay but it was cool once again\u2026\n\nThis is a look at how that happened in the years immediately following the punk rock of the 1970s\u2026it\u2019s part four of the post-punk explosion\u2014and it\u2019s all about alt-dance\u2026\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices