Electronic Dance Music Culture (EDMC)
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Recent papers in Electronic Dance Music Culture (EDMC)
Paper given at the annual meeting of IASPM-USA: BPM: Bodies, Places, Movements.
Hosted by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and held online, May 2021.
Hosted by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and held online, May 2021.
Lunceford, Brett. Review of Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, by S. Alexander Reed. Popular Music and Society, 38, no. 1 (2015): 104-106.
Review of Ivan Fontanari’s 2013 book Os Djs da perifa: música eletrônica, trajetórias e mediações culturais em São Paulo (The Periph DJs: electronic music, trajectories and cultural mediations in São Paulo), written by request from The... more
This chapter analyses VJing as a kind of performance that develops between the fields of art, new media and club cultures. The author sketches a map of the changing relationship between art and VJing throughout three historical phases,... more
O presente texto tem como objetivo fazer uma abordagem teórica inicial sob a perspectiva semiótica sobre o conceito de cultura atrelada à noção de hibridismo, aplicado as festas de música eletrônica, especificamente as raves 3. Para... more
Paper given at the 56th annual conference of the Royal Musical Association.
Hosted by Goldsmiths, University of London and held online, September 2020.
Hosted by Goldsmiths, University of London and held online, September 2020.
Understanding the emergence of contemporary gay identity is impossible without considering the history of parties. A party is an event: a provisional and temporary coming together of diverse elements, people and things. A festive mode of... more
Electronic Dance Music Culture, a contemporary subculture centered on raves, is a global phenomenon that has been attracting the interest of scholars across the globe. Originating from "Acid House" parties in Ibiza and "Techno" dance... more
The neoliberal period has seen myriad new and formerly marginalized cultural forms aspire to the status of art. This cluster explores seven specific newly christened arts -- television, comics, audiobooks, video games, Electronic Dance... more
My analysis of the changed landscape of gay partying in Sydney, "Complex Events" looks at the impact of current policing practices (drug dogs) on the shapes gay partying is taking: its forms, pleasures, risks, contexts and sociomaterial... more
"At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Nor-tec phenomenon emerged from the border city of Tijuana and through the Internet, quickly conquered a global audience. Marketed as a kind of "ethnic" electronic dance music, Nor-tec samples... more
Colt 45 - Underground Post Punk, Tropical Tapes, Lo-Fi Electronics and Other Sounds from Brazil [1983-1993] explores an experimental post-tropicalist sensibility emerged in the early 1980s with the arrival of independent art scenes in key... more
Without a doubt, the question of rave culture’s politics – or lack thereof – has polarized debate concerning the cultural, social and political value of rave culture not only within electronic dance music culture (EDMC) studies, but in... more
Da Cage ai Pink Floyd, da Schaeffer e i suoi eredi ai Soft Machine, da Edgar Varèse a Iannis Xenakis, dai compositori acusmatici ai DJ contemporanei, la ricerca elettroacustica ed elettronica ha vissuto e continua a vivere una felicissima... more
(Individual proposal) The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994 made attending and producing raves illegal in the U.K., which were defined as “gatherings on land in the open air of 100 or more persons at which amplified music is... more
Exploring Psychedelic Trance and Electronic Dance Music in Modern Culture investigates the expansive scope of Electronic Music Dance Culture (EMDC), the rise of Psychedelic Trance culture, and their relationship with new digital... more
Variations on this claim are regularly heard across electronic dance scenes around the world. The explanation, given by veteran and not-so-veteran insiders, is typical: the scene has declined, for the authenticity and quality of parties,... more
Reflexión acerca de la creación musical en las músicas electrónicas de baile, como agencia compartida entre músicos, oyentes, danzantes y tecnologías, entre otros. Observaciones acerca de las técnicas del mix, del sampling y de la... more
Book review of Nick Prior's Popular Music, Digital Technology, and Society (2018).
When reviewing the research of scenes and subcultures it becomes apparent, that economic aspects remain largely unresearched or exploratory (E.G. Hesmondhalgh, 1998; Lange & Bürkner, 2010). So far the economy of those formations has been... more
The musical legacy of J Dilla continues to be felt eight years after his untimely death from lupus at the age of thirty two. During his lifetime Dilla produced dozens of albums for many influential hip hop artists while also producing his... more
In his 2013 song "More Than Aware," Montreal/Toronto-based performer Kanwar Anit Singh--better known by his stage name Sikh Knowledge--asks his listeners: "Do you know what love means to a fag like me?" In the song that follows this... more
This study investigates the correlations between theories of intense emotional experiences and production techniques used in electronic dance music (EDM), commonly known as “build-up” and “drop”, which are designed to create tension and a... more
The events around the Mauerfall provided conditions for encounters between Detroit techno producers and a nascent Berlin scene celebrating a new – short-lived – openness. Cemented in Berlin’s Wende era, techno reached across decades-old... more
Berlin currently counts as the "mecca" for electronic dance music fans, especially genres rooted in Chicago House and Detroit Techno. Many producers and DJs relocate to Berlin;
A comparative journey through the sensory mediation of DJ-led electronic dance music events, arguing for a sonic immersive heterotopia, over hegemonic exploitation of the DJ as visual spectacle.
Stockhausen comments on the work of four sound artists (Aphex Twin, Plastikman, Scanner, Daniel Pemberton) who have claimed to be influenced by him. In turn, three of them offer their responses to his critiques.
Global Tribe explores the visionary arts dance movement of psytrance, which has mushroomed globally since its beginnings in Goa in the 1970s/1980s. Based on extensive international research, as the first detailed work on psychedelic... more
"This lively textual symposium offers a rich harvest of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music... more
This paper traces the history of queer dance genres to the late 1800s and the beginning of sound/visual recordings in the African American community. Written with Christopher Davis as lead author.
Low End Theory probes the much-mythologized field of bass and low-frequency sound. It begins in music but quickly moves far beyond, following vibratory phenomena across time, disciplines and disparate cultural spheres (including... more
זוהי עבודה סמינריונית שנכתבה בשנים 1997-1998 במסגרת לימודי לתואר ראשון בחוג למוזיקולוגיה באונ' תל-אביב מאחר ולפעמים פונים אליי ומבקשים לקרוא את העבודה הזו, שהפכה ברבות השנים לסוג של מסמך תיעוד היסטורי, החלטתי להעלות אותו לכאן, אחרי עריכת... more
Emerging underground electronic dance music (EDM) communities delineate and produce relatively autonomous social worlds with distinct discourses, values and aesthetic sensibilities. Such small-scale socialization is typical of the Czech... more
Nasuprot aktuelnim studijama iz filozofije muzike, prema kojima je elektronska muzika izvršila potpunu reviziju tradicionalnih muzičkih pojmova, među kojima su i pojmovi kompozitora i interpretarora, u ovom radu izložiću tezu prema kojoj... more
CHANNELLING THE ECSTASY OF HILDEGARD VON BINGEN: "O EUCHARI" REMIXED Hildegard's song tell us about electronic music's relationship with music of the past? And, perhaps more controversially, what do such interrelationships reveal about... more
The following report looks into the case study and implementation of production techniques involved in creating Forest psytrance. A subgenre of Psychedelic Trance which in turn evolved from a form of music known as Goa Trance. The Forest... more