dancecult: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called dancecult.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Dance; Culture; Sound; Book; Scene; Club; Techno; Time; People; Dancecult; Edm; Rave; Work; Chapter; Space; Experience; Festival; Djs; Bass; London; John; Film; Berlin; Party; Performance; Use; Hip; Artists; Dub; York; Event; Photo; Editor; Night; Technology; Genre; Coding; Body; Nightlife; Recording; Album; Youth; Man; Lawrence; Pop; Hardcore; Ecstasy; Dancehall; Psyculture; Ibiza; Drugs; Balli; Sonic; Christian

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• Introduction to Women and Electronic Dance Music Culture by Farrugia, Rebekah; Olszanowski, Magdalena (2017) - Despite government institutions’ official efforts to ensure equal male and female representation as prescribed by “The Gender Equality Act”, women DJs continue to be underrepresented at high profile EDMC events in Norway. Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), tobias c. van Veen (Université de Montréal, CA), Michael Veal (Yale University, US), Botond Vitos (University of Fribourg, CH) Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: culture; dance; dance music; dancecult; djs; edmc; female; gender; issue; music; music culture; olszanowski; university; women
• Dancing with Dumont: Individualism at an Early Morning Melbourne Rave by Phillips, Matthew T (2021) - Graham St. John suggests that the term is derived from “vibration” and that it designates “an ‘intuitive signal’ that may be picked up from other people and This occurs through various exercises, such as breathing or touching, targeting the body’s “energy field” to “tune” into the energies of other people and places and “learn how they affect us” (Manné 2004: 125). Keywords: dance; dumont; energy; individualism; kapferer; morning; music; people; rave; ritual; space; vibe
• Limits in Algorithmic Dance Music by Bell, Renick (2018) - Having used algorithmic music systems for over 20 years and having also studied piano, I felt intuitively this was not the case. A person sitting at a piano lacks the endurance, creativity, and speed to execute the range of patterns which can be generated by algorithmic systems; the limitation is more stark if you consider the necessity for the human piano player to practice. Keywords: dance; music; system
• Introduction to Algorithmic EDM by Knotts, Shelly; Collins, Nick (2018) - A recent manifestation of this is the algorave, an explicit site of live algorithmic electronic dance music (EDM), produced through such means as on stage computer programming (algorave.com). The From the Floor contributions include Lee Cheng’s case study where a university level teaching module uses live coding as a method to teach EDM styles and introduce students to computer music practices. Keywords: algorave; coding; computer; dance; dancecult; edm; live; music; performance; programming; university
• Being and Performing "Older" Woman in Electronic Dance Movement Culture by O'Grady, Alice; Madill, Anna (2019) - Grounded in the accounts of aging female clubbers and their participation in electronic dance music culture, it investigates the lived experience of being and performing the category of “older woman” in this context. In a landscape where scholarship on female participation in club cultures is, at best, scarce, research into the experiences of older women in dance music culture is virtually non- existent. Keywords: age; club; context; culture; dance; experience; music; participants; participation; people; psytrance; research; scene; space; time; women
• The Irony and the Ecstasy: The Queer Aging of Pet Shop Boys and LCD Soundsystem in Electronic Dance Music by Wodtke, Larissa (2019) - Pet Shop Boys, Literally. 5 Pet Shop Boys problematize the genre of EDM, especially as it has been used over the past decade in a more mainstream, American context (including artists such as Skrillex, Deadmau5 and David Guetta), and assert that Pet Shop Boys music is not strictly EDM because of the underground nature of their influences: “It’s sort of fragmentary. Keywords: boys; dance; dance music; edm; irony; lcd; lcd soundsystem; murphy; music; new; pet; present; shop; shop boys; soundsystem; temporality; tennant; time; tonight; york
• Baby Raves: Youth, Adulthood and Ageing in Contemporary British EDM Culture by Armour, Zoe (2019) - Early academic interpretations of EDM club culture in the UK have primarily taken a youth studies approach. The most compelling research to date, from a position of critical distance, has been Thornton’s seminal work on EDM club culture, which provided a portrait of British youth and the shift to British Acid house from 1988–1992 as a distinct culture (1994: 8-11). Keywords: age; ageing; baby; british; children; club; culture; dance; edm; edm culture; edm sound; event; family; london; music; new; parents; rave; sound; super; super)club; system; years; youth
• Have Things Really Changed, or Is It Just Me? Ageing and Dance Music Culture by Bentley, Donna Cynthia (2019) - I do like seeing older people other than the ones that I went out with at events. Going to events and meeting new people outside of the familiar social groups that orbited my everyday life, reminded me that there is a big world out there. Keywords: dance; events; music; people; scene; time
• Bring the Break-Beat Back! Authenticity and the Politics of Rhythm in Drum ‘n’ Bass by Christodoulou, Chris (2020) - By the early-1990s, a significant proportion of British EDM tracks entirely replaced 4/4 kick and bass drum patterns with sampled break-beats, whose relative speed prompted the use of the appellation “hardcore”. Secondly, he claims that the increasing rate of technological development and tempos on the one hand, and the proliferation and self-cancellation of electronic music genres on the other hand, has become ever more rapid. Keywords: atlantic; bass; beats; break; context; dance; digital; drum; funk; genre; jungle; london; music; production; rhythm; sense; track; use
• Introduction to Ageing with EDMC by Madden, David (2019) - How might electronic dance music scenes and practices offer critiques of successful ageing and ageing scripts? Dance music scenes also have a way of both reaffirming and queering heteronormative and dominant temporalities, which presume that a life course should proceed in a linear and sequential way, from birth to death (Taylor 2010). Keywords: ageing; culture; dance; edmc; music; time; university
• Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990–2015: A Cultural History (Ewa Mazierska) by Jori, Anita (2019) - Whilst every chapter in this rich volume warrants detailed discussion, two essays from Fales and Robert Fink, which deal with timbre in electronic dance music and bass cultures respectively, are of particular interest to Dancecult’s readership. For EDM scholars, the ideas presented this book offer a potential way out of the music-analytical stalemate that has dogged our subfield since its inception, by showcasing approaches that enable us to engage more directly with the “matter” (i.e. the sounds and technologies) of electronic dance music. Keywords: anoosh; arash; bass; book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; festival; film; fraud; fyre; iran; mcfarland; media; music; musicians; party; rave; scene; sound; timbre; work; world
• The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music (Robert Fink, Melinda Latour & Zachary Wallmark, eds.) by Perevedentseva, Maria (2019) - Whilst every chapter in this rich volume warrants detailed discussion, two essays from Fales and Robert Fink, which deal with timbre in electronic dance music and bass cultures respectively, are of particular interest to Dancecult’s readership. For EDM scholars, the ideas presented this book offer a potential way out of the music-analytical stalemate that has dogged our subfield since its inception, by showcasing approaches that enable us to engage more directly with the “matter” (i.e. the sounds and technologies) of electronic dance music. Keywords: anoosh; arash; bass; book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; festival; film; fraud; fyre; iran; mcfarland; media; music; musicians; party; rave; scene; sound; timbre; work; world
• Sweet Harmony: Rave|Today (Philly Adams & Kobi Prempeh, curs.) by Christodoulou, Chris (2019) - Whilst every chapter in this rich volume warrants detailed discussion, two essays from Fales and Robert Fink, which deal with timbre in electronic dance music and bass cultures respectively, are of particular interest to Dancecult’s readership. For EDM scholars, the ideas presented this book offer a potential way out of the music-analytical stalemate that has dogged our subfield since its inception, by showcasing approaches that enable us to engage more directly with the “matter” (i.e. the sounds and technologies) of electronic dance music. Keywords: anoosh; arash; bass; book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; festival; film; fraud; fyre; iran; mcfarland; media; music; musicians; party; rave; scene; sound; timbre; work; world
• Fyre Fraud (Jenner Furst & Julia Willoughby Nason, dirs.) & Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Chris Smith, dir.) by Symmes, Tommy Colton (2019) - Whilst every chapter in this rich volume warrants detailed discussion, two essays from Fales and Robert Fink, which deal with timbre in electronic dance music and bass cultures respectively, are of particular interest to Dancecult’s readership. For EDM scholars, the ideas presented this book offer a potential way out of the music-analytical stalemate that has dogged our subfield since its inception, by showcasing approaches that enable us to engage more directly with the “matter” (i.e. the sounds and technologies) of electronic dance music. Keywords: anoosh; arash; bass; book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; festival; film; fraud; fyre; iran; mcfarland; media; music; musicians; party; rave; scene; sound; timbre; work; world
• Raving Iran (Susanne Regina Meures, dir.) by Breyley, Gay Jennifer (2019) - Whilst every chapter in this rich volume warrants detailed discussion, two essays from Fales and Robert Fink, which deal with timbre in electronic dance music and bass cultures respectively, are of particular interest to Dancecult’s readership. For EDM scholars, the ideas presented this book offer a potential way out of the music-analytical stalemate that has dogged our subfield since its inception, by showcasing approaches that enable us to engage more directly with the “matter” (i.e. the sounds and technologies) of electronic dance music. Keywords: anoosh; arash; bass; book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; festival; film; fraud; fyre; iran; mcfarland; media; music; musicians; party; rave; scene; sound; timbre; work; world
• No Screenshots on the Dance Floor by Assiter, Ben (2020) - Livestreaming Under Lockdown When COVID-19 lockdown measures forced the indefinite closure of nightclubs and venues around the world, fundamental questions were raised as to how the aesthetics, communities and economies of dance music culture could survive a physically despatialised context. At the same time, much of this shift can also be understood as a sudden and unexpected acceleration of processes that were already well underway in much of dance music culture. Keywords: club; culture; dance; events; music; space; time
• Virtual Dance Floors: Shall We Dance or Fly? by Simao, Emilia; Guerra, Paula (2020) - In territories like SL, people have been listening and dancing to psytrance in virtual dance floors for over 12 years, sharing psychedelic experiences with their friends and their second selves (Simão, Silva and Magalhães 2015). Nowadays, from SL to Plug In to social networks' live streams and other similar platforms, these virtual experiences seem to be more effective than ever: virtual dance floors and performances are not totally new phenomena but are growing exponentially. Keywords: dance; simão; university; virtual
• Editorial Introduction: Dance Culture in the Time of Corona by Payling, Dave; St John, Graham (2020) - Cover Design and Photography by Botond Vitos and Dave Payling Thanks to Loophole Berlin for providing the space Executive Editor Graham St John (AU) Production Editor Botond Vitos (DE) From the floor EditorIAL DIRECTOR Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK From the floor Editor Alice O’Grady (University of Leeds, UK) Reviews Editor Toby Young (University of Oxford, UK) Operations director Botond Vitos (DE) Managing Editor Tommy Colton Symmes (Rice University, US) Community Manager Katrina Loughrey (DE) Art Director Botond Vitos (DE) Associate Editors Kath O’Donnell (AU) Alistair Fraser (Maynooth University, IE) Production AssistantS Richard Anderson (University of Liverpool, UK) Christopher Charles (University of Bristol, UK) Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), Botond Vitos (DE), Toby Young (University of Oxford, UK) Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: culture; dance; dancecult; floor; issue; music; university
• Moon Juice Stomper: A Novel (Goa 1987-96) (Ray Castle) by St John, Graham (2020) - The study of the architecture of music venues is a developing area, illustrated here by two publications, one offering a historical perspective on spaces of live popular music performance, the other specifically on the more recent development of clubs where dancing to records prevails. Kronenburg offers a broader architectural timeline of music venues that historically have enabled the experiential and transience of live music, mainly in West-Europe and the USA. Keywords: bass; bergling; book; clubs; culture; dance; film; goa; london; muggs; music; new; people; sound; venues
• Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture (Joe Muggs & Brian David Stevens) by Spencer, Edward (2020) - The study of the architecture of music venues is a developing area, illustrated here by two publications, one offering a historical perspective on spaces of live popular music performance, the other specifically on the more recent development of clubs where dancing to records prevails. Kronenburg offers a broader architectural timeline of music venues that historically have enabled the experiential and transience of live music, mainly in West-Europe and the USA. Keywords: bass; bergling; book; clubs; culture; dance; film; goa; london; muggs; music; new; people; sound; venues
• Avicii: True Stories (Levan Tsikurishvili, dir.) by Musgrave, George (2020) - The study of the architecture of music venues is a developing area, illustrated here by two publications, one offering a historical perspective on spaces of live popular music performance, the other specifically on the more recent development of clubs where dancing to records prevails. Kronenburg offers a broader architectural timeline of music venues that historically have enabled the experiential and transience of live music, mainly in West-Europe and the USA. Keywords: bass; bergling; book; clubs; culture; dance; film; goa; london; muggs; music; new; people; sound; venues
• Night Fever: Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today (Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand & Catherine Rossi, eds.) & This Must Be the Place: An Architectural History of Popular Music Performance Venues (Robert Kronenburg) by Rietveld, Hillegonda C (2020) - The study of the architecture of music venues is a developing area, illustrated here by two publications, one offering a historical perspective on spaces of live popular music performance, the other specifically on the more recent development of clubs where dancing to records prevails. Kronenburg offers a broader architectural timeline of music venues that historically have enabled the experiential and transience of live music, mainly in West-Europe and the USA. Keywords: bass; bergling; book; clubs; culture; dance; film; goa; london; muggs; music; new; people; sound; venues
• Covid Nights: Crisis, and Street-level Institutions in Montreal and Beyond by Madden, David (2021) - The former music director is also a DJ and producer under the moniker Softcoresoft, and like many working within local music scenes, has permanently stopped her musical activities as a source of generating primary or even tertiary income because of the pandemic. Music venues play a vital role in local music scenes in that they provide meeting points, circulation, and space for a range of cultural activities, and in their Madden | COVID Nights: Keywords: city; crisis; culture; dance; edm; institutions; january; level; montreal; music; new; night; nva; pandemic; scenes; street; venues
• Future Nostalgia? 21st Century Disco by Rees, William David James (2021) - Themes of tolerance, unity and liberation were featured, often implicitly, in disco music – a set of utopian ideas that had been passed to it through 1960s psychedelic culture (Lawrence 2003: 10). As this article has examined, there is a utopian element to disco music, and this links in with how people in the 21st century remember the utopian imaginings of the 1970s. Keywords: 1970s; album; century; culture; dance; disco; dua; future; history; lipa; march; memories; music; new; nostalgia; past; present; punk
• Challenges to British Nightclubs During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic by Mazierska, Ewa; Rigg, Tony (2021) - Against this backdrop, arrangements to resource the survival of nightclub businesses such as bank loans, would be difficult to assess without a sense of the extent of the problem. The Ritz has so far survived, but other nightclubs have become casualties of residential representations. Keywords: businesses; clubbing; covid; covid-19; culture; dance; economy; government; industry; london; mazierska; music; new; nightclubs; number; pandemic; rigg; sector; time
• Moments of Connection As Means of Survival: A Study of Queer Identity, Freedom and Community in UK Raves During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Avis-Ward, Daisy (2022) - Like the wider sample, participants who attended queer raves emphasised their experiences of community, self-expression and safety. Ezra described queer raves as “an environment that isn’t hostile… there’s no judgment on the dance floor”. Keywords: community; covid-19; culture; dance; government; griffin; identity; music; pandemic; participants; people; queer; raves; research; social; spaces
• Dance Librarian: Sonic Explorations of the Bandcamp Underground by Vitos, Botond (2021) - For instance, the TensorFlow auto-tagging models supplied with the Essentia audio and music analysis library (Alonso-Jiménez et al. 2020) can be employed to predict a wider group of popular music genres, venturing beyond the boundaries of electronic dance music in such sonic explorations. (Note: focused on dance music genres, the classifier does not include an “experimental” class, with ambient falling closest to this category.) Keywords: bandcamp; botond; cluster; dance; genre; music; tags; techno; tracks; vitos
• Join The Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music (Matt Anniss) by Trowell, Ian Michael (2021) - The topic of this book is primarily the history and rise of Dutch dance music both within Holland and abroad. In the 1980s chapter, van Bergen primarily explores the reception of disco, house, techno, and new beat in Holland, emphasizing the foundations of dance music in queer and Black American dance cultures. Keywords: anniss; bergen; berlin; book; chapter; city; club; culture; dance; dutch; gentrification; history; music; new; nightlife; scene; spaces; time; van; volume
• Dutch Dance, 1988-2018: How the Netherlands Took the Lead in Electronic Music Culture (Mark van Bergen, Trans. Andrew Cartwright) by Nye, Sean (2021) - The topic of this book is primarily the history and rise of Dutch dance music both within Holland and abroad. In the 1980s chapter, van Bergen primarily explores the reception of disco, house, techno, and new beat in Holland, emphasizing the foundations of dance music in queer and Black American dance cultures. Keywords: anniss; bergen; berlin; book; chapter; city; club; culture; dance; dutch; gentrification; history; music; new; nightlife; scene; spaces; time; van; volume
• The New Age of Electronic Dance Music and Club Culture (Anita Jóri, Martin Lücke, eds) by Smith, Tom (2021) - The topic of this book is primarily the history and rise of Dutch dance music both within Holland and abroad. In the 1980s chapter, van Bergen primarily explores the reception of disco, house, techno, and new beat in Holland, emphasizing the foundations of dance music in queer and Black American dance cultures. Keywords: anniss; bergen; berlin; book; chapter; city; club; culture; dance; dutch; gentrification; history; music; new; nightlife; scene; spaces; time; van; volume
• Exploring Nightlife: Space, Society and Governance (Jordi Nofre and Adam Eldridge, eds) by Hutton, Fiona (2021) - The topic of this book is primarily the history and rise of Dutch dance music both within Holland and abroad. In the 1980s chapter, van Bergen primarily explores the reception of disco, house, techno, and new beat in Holland, emphasizing the foundations of dance music in queer and Black American dance cultures. Keywords: anniss; bergen; berlin; book; chapter; city; club; culture; dance; dutch; gentrification; history; music; new; nightlife; scene; spaces; time; van; volume
• Plague Raver Reflections: What Happened in the Pandemic Stays in the Pandemic by Anderson, Richard (2022) - The predominant acceptance of Plague Rave DJs behaviours evidenced in the above analysis of social media posts and comments is reflective of a dance music media culture in which journalists foster an adoration of DJs. There were DJs who spoke out and directly condemned Plague Rave DJs such as the UK’s Dave Clarke, Bicep and Bushwaka. Keywords: dance; djs; events; music; pandemic; plague; raves; september
• Beyond the Brain: Happening at East Edge by Chambers, Paul (2023) - Local events, such as Electric Tepee, fused electronic music, lighting projections and ritual celebration. I met an artist attending local parties and checked out their work. Keywords: brain; byron; dance; event; fig; flyer; mckenna; music; parties; party; people; scene; space; time
• Nightlife Studies: Past, Present and Future by Nofre, Jordi; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel (2023) - Abstract This article attempts to present a comprehensive, synthetic and critical epistemological review of the interdisciplinary field of Nightlife Studies from the late 19th century to the present, unveiling a fascinating interplay between an “alternative cultural approach”, a “community approach” and a “geographical turn” that arose in the mid- to late 2000s. Keywords: Nightlife Studies, comprehensive, epistemological review Jordi Nofre is FCT Associate Research Professor in Urban Geography at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon. Keywords: approach; city; community; culture; dance; future; international; journal; leisure; london; new; nightlife; nightlife studies; nofre; pandemic; past; present; research; routledge; scholars; spaces; studies; time; university; urban; work; york; youth
• The Voice of the Apocalypse: Terence McKenna as Raving Medium by St John, Graham (2023) - The Voice of the Apocalypse: Terence McKenna as Raving Medium Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 15(1): 61–91 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2023 Dancecult http://dj.dancecult.net http://dx.doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.04 The Voice of the Apocalypse: Terence McKenna as Raving Medium Graham St John University of Huddersfield (UK) Keywords: Terence McKenna, nanomedia, psychedelics, remixticism, sampling, psytrance Graham St John is cultural anthropologist specialising in transformational events, movements and figures. Keywords: album; alien; apocalypse; clark; culture; dance; dancecult; end; event; evolution; figure; history; john; language; mckenna; medium; music; new; rave; raving; records; terence; terence mckenna; time; voice; world
• Timbre and the "Zone of Entanglement" in Electronic Dance Music: Re-Thinking Musico-Social Ontologies with the Mycelial Turn by Perevedentseva, Maria (2023) - What is it like for EDM listeners to be, think, feel and know as part of this Dancecult 15(1)46 extended living entity? Fales’ speculations suggest that the types of electronic timbres that make up EDM are perceived uncoupled from everyday sound sources, thus encouraging EDM listeners to enjoy the “unconstrained cognition” characteristic of psychedelic states (Kennedy 2014: 119). Keywords: brain; consciousness; dance; edm; entanglement; entrainment; life; listeners; mind; music; mycelial; new; ontology; psychedelics; relations; self; sound; timbre; turn; world; zone
• Dancing through Transformational Music Festivals in Western Canada: Tales from the Forest Floor by Mohr, Kelci (2023) - Festival dance floors are places where people may experiment with love-centered ways of knowing, relating and creating. The following autoethnographic narratives were created to illuminate how people may find meaning through dance floor experiences at “transformational” music festivals in western Canada. Keywords: art; dance; festival; life; music; people; photo; stage
• Ears as Portals: Alternative Realities of Musical Infrastructures (A CTM Festival 2023 Review) by Monteanni, Luigi (2023) - Reviews 115 Given the social dynamics, risks, and potentials that McKenzie Wark discusses, raving seems fundamentally different from the more individually defined practices fly-fishing, juggling and running—if that’s not a completely biased perspective of a review for a journal of electronic dance music culture. But what is the book’s contribution to a critical discourse on electronic dance music culture? Keywords: berghain; berlin; book; chapter; club; ctm; culture; dance; experience; iten; liechti; music; new; norient; practice; research; robin; sampling; sound; space; time; university; wark
• Berghain, Techno und die Körperfabrik: Ethnographie eines Stammpublikums (Guillaume Robin) by Schwanhäußer, Anja (2023) - Reviews 115 Given the social dynamics, risks, and potentials that McKenzie Wark discusses, raving seems fundamentally different from the more individually defined practices fly-fishing, juggling and running—if that’s not a completely biased perspective of a review for a journal of electronic dance music culture. But what is the book’s contribution to a critical discourse on electronic dance music culture? Keywords: berghain; berlin; book; chapter; club; ctm; culture; dance; experience; iten; liechti; music; new; norient; practice; research; robin; sampling; sound; space; time; university; wark
• This Track Contains Politics: The Culture of Sampling in Experimental Electronica (Hannes Liechti) by Iten, Moses (2023) - Reviews 115 Given the social dynamics, risks, and potentials that McKenzie Wark discusses, raving seems fundamentally different from the more individually defined practices fly-fishing, juggling and running—if that’s not a completely biased perspective of a review for a journal of electronic dance music culture. But what is the book’s contribution to a critical discourse on electronic dance music culture? Keywords: berghain; berlin; book; chapter; club; ctm; culture; dance; experience; iten; liechti; music; new; norient; practice; research; robin; sampling; sound; space; time; university; wark
• Raving (McKenzie Wark) by Feser, Kim (2023) - Reviews 115 Given the social dynamics, risks, and potentials that McKenzie Wark discusses, raving seems fundamentally different from the more individually defined practices fly-fishing, juggling and running—if that’s not a completely biased perspective of a review for a journal of electronic dance music culture. But what is the book’s contribution to a critical discourse on electronic dance music culture? Keywords: berghain; berlin; book; chapter; club; ctm; culture; dance; experience; iten; liechti; music; new; norient; practice; research; robin; sampling; sound; space; time; university; wark
• Guest Editors' Introduction to "Psychedelica and Electronica" by Reddell, Trace; St John, Graham (2023) - Such circular logics are prevalent throughout the history of psychedelic music, leading to my adoption of “The Magic Circle” (a rejected title for the Beatles’ 1966 album, Revolver) to characterize the perennial nature of psychedelic experience. This is Trace here reminding you that psychedelic music has evolved, mutated, hybridized and flourished over the past sixty years. Keywords: dance; dancecult; electronica; experience; issue; john; mckenna; music; psychedelics; research; sound; voice
• Executive Editor's Introduction by St John, Graham (2023) - Production Editor Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE) From the floor Editor Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Reviews Editor Anita Jóri (Berlin University of the Arts, DE) Operations director Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE) Foreign Languages Editor Moses Iten (RMIT, AU) Managing Editor Tommy Colton Symmes (Rice University, US) Community Manager Katrina Loughrey (DE) Art Director Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE) Operations Associate Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Associate Editors Ben Assiter (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Alistair Fraser (Maynooth University, IE) Moses Iten (RMIT, AU) , Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE), Toby Young (University of Oxford, UK) Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: dance; dancecult; editor; john; mirrorball; music; university
• Spectacle, Fashion and the Dancing Experience in Britain, 1960–1990 (Jon Stratton) by Hill, Tara (2023) - Reviews 115 Given the social dynamics, risks, and potentials that McKenzie Wark discusses, raving seems fundamentally different from the more individually defined practices fly-fishing, juggling and running—if that’s not a completely biased perspective of a review for a journal of electronic dance music culture. But what is the book’s contribution to a critical discourse on electronic dance music culture? Keywords: berghain; berlin; book; chapter; club; ctm; culture; dance; experience; iten; liechti; music; new; norient; practice; research; robin; sampling; sound; space; time; university; wark
• Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor (Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta) by Fewer, Rory (2024) - Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta’s Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor adds an essential contribution to a limited yet gradually expanding body of ethnomusicological scholarship on electronic dance music cultures. This book offers a novel contribution to ethnomusicological scholarship and will surely lend itself as an important resource for scholars and other readers interested in the global phenomenon of electronic dance music culture or studies on music and affect more generally. Keywords: book; club; culture; dance; dmcs; mann; mispireta; music; rave; spaces; stories; venue
• The Steady Decline of Club Culture in Dublin: Neoliberal Policy, Touristification and the Pandemic by O'Sullivan, Caroline (2024) - While assessing the impact that Covid-19 has had on Ireland’s dance music culture, this article argues that neoliberal government policy, planning decisions and the changing realities of living in Dublin city in the preceding 20 years had resulted in a scene that was already in a perilous state of contraction. 2 See Powell (1991), O’Hare (2001) and Haughey Family (2020). 3 For a social history of the Dublin Club scene during the 1990s and early 2000s see Wynne-Jones (2022). Keywords: change; city; club; club culture; cultural; culture; dance; decline; dublin; economy; gentrification; government; ireland; irish; music; night; nightclubs; october; pandemic; policy; public; spaces; time; venues
• “Being a DJ is My Form of Resistance”: The Dance Floor As a Safer Space for Queer-Feminist Communities in Vienna by Fuernkranz, Magdalena (2024) - The study shows that gender identity remains an essential category for participating on the dance floor, contributing to cultural production and organizing events in electronic dance music scenes. Hyperreality is a safer space based on a shared interest in the advancement of the careers of marginalized DJs, an intersectional solidarity for protesting exclusions from dance music scenes, harassment online and during the event and tokenism in the music business. Keywords: artists; club; culture; dance; djs; event; female; feminist; festival; floor; gender; hyperreality; media; music; networks; pressure; queer; scenes; space; vienna
• Squelches, Wobbles and Risers: Continuous Processes and Subgenres in Electronic Dance Music by Smith, Jeremy (2024) - However, I agree with Tom Johnson that “genre is not dead” and is still relevant in many ways (2020: 177).3 As I will discuss in this article, scholars, DJs, producers and fans still speak about meaningful distinctions between EDM genres and subgenres. This article discusses all of these and provides a scholarly update on discourse about EDM genres in the 2020s, but also highlights one aspect of the discourse Dancecult 16(1)100 that has not been significantly discussed in previous scholarship, namely, the role of what I call “continuous processes” (such as wobbles and risers) in genre distinctions (Smith 2021). Keywords: bass; dance; dubstep; edm; electro; figure; genres; house; music; processes; remix; risers; section; subgenres; track
• An Old School Stomper: Reflections on Place, Identity, and Drugs and the Fluctuating Roles of the Participating Ethnographer by Raine, Sarah (2024) - Why, then, do so many popular music ethnographers remove themselves from this essential layering of music scene experience? Instead, I turn to place, placemaking and work that attempts to consider the role that drugs play in embodied experience and what this might mean for our current and remembered spaces of dancing. Keywords: club; dance; drug; experience; house; music; research; scene
• Platformization and Its Ongoing Impact on Dance Music Spaces by Hidalgo, Danielle (2024) - Conclusion My work calls for a deeper exploration of the effects of digital media on dance music culture and industry standards, emphasizing the need to examine how these shifts impact both creators and consumers of dance music content. Answering these questions will elucidate concerns about how digital media is impacting dance music industry standards (see Chandran 2023) and music industry trends in general. Keywords: content; dance; djs; industry; music; october
• Reparative Raving by Murphy, Emily L (2024) - Durham: Duke University Press. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Keywords: dance; grief; press; queer; raving; university
• Passinho Chronicles: Unveiling Urban Narratives Through Dance by Figueredo, Natalia (2024) - As they move through the streets, others join them in dance movements. This combination of elements allows us to understand urban space as a choreography orchestrated by different elements present, or not, in the same space. Keywords: body; chão; dance; dancing; favelas; funk; music; passinho; pow; rabisca; space; video
• Windows on the Dance Floor by Hughes, Ruth (2024) - As a fellow dancer and DJ, I’ve seen ways that windows on dance floors can affect our experiences; their function as a threshold of space; their materiality; their practical uses and what all of this might mean for our perception of ourselves as well as the collective dance floor. Photo credit: Ruth Hughes (2023). Keywords: dance; floor; window
• Out of Space: How UK Cities Shaped Rave Culture (Jim Ottewill) by Fraser, Alistair (2024) - Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta’s Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor adds an essential contribution to a limited yet gradually expanding body of ethnomusicological scholarship on electronic dance music cultures. This book offers a novel contribution to ethnomusicological scholarship and will surely lend itself as an important resource for scholars and other readers interested in the global phenomenon of electronic dance music culture or studies on music and affect more generally. Keywords: book; club; culture; dance; dmcs; mann; mispireta; music; rave; spaces; stories; venue
• Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (Larisa Kingston Mann) by Chaudhury, Aadita (2024) - Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta’s Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor adds an essential contribution to a limited yet gradually expanding body of ethnomusicological scholarship on electronic dance music cultures. This book offers a novel contribution to ethnomusicological scholarship and will surely lend itself as an important resource for scholars and other readers interested in the global phenomenon of electronic dance music culture or studies on music and affect more generally. Keywords: book; club; culture; dance; dmcs; mann; mispireta; music; rave; spaces; stories; venue
• Venue Stories: Narratives, Memories, and Histories from Britain’s Independent Music Spaces (Fraser Mann, Robert Edgar and Helen Pleasance. eds) by Gibson, Max (2024) - Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta’s Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor adds an essential contribution to a limited yet gradually expanding body of ethnomusicological scholarship on electronic dance music cultures. This book offers a novel contribution to ethnomusicological scholarship and will surely lend itself as an important resource for scholars and other readers interested in the global phenomenon of electronic dance music culture or studies on music and affect more generally. Keywords: book; club; culture; dance; dmcs; mann; mispireta; music; rave; spaces; stories; venue
• Living at Night in Times of Pandemic: Night Studies and Club Culture in France and Germany (Anita Jóri and Guillaume Robin eds) by McNeill, Jack (2024) - Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta’s Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor adds an essential contribution to a limited yet gradually expanding body of ethnomusicological scholarship on electronic dance music cultures. This book offers a novel contribution to ethnomusicological scholarship and will surely lend itself as an important resource for scholars and other readers interested in the global phenomenon of electronic dance music culture or studies on music and affect more generally. Keywords: book; club; culture; dance; dmcs; mann; mispireta; music; rave; spaces; stories; venue
• Guest Editor's Introduction to Spaces of Dancing by Assiter, Ben (2024) - As with other popular music cultures, the physical geographies of EMDC exist in ever- closer relation with the mediations of online space (Baym 2018; Jones 2021). Daniella Antoinette Hidalgo’s “Platformization and its Ongoing Impact on Dance Music Spaces” reflects on the role of online space in shaping EMDC within structures of platform capitalism. Keywords: culture; dance; dancing; emdc; london; music; new; nightlife; online; spaces
• A Thrice-experienced Clubnight: Three Ethnographic Readings of a Club Night in Ankali, Prague, 7 June 2024 by Werlen, Arsène; Shanahoy, Cyber; Izik-Dzurko, Aria; Verbuc, David (2025) - These analytic foci were drawn from in-class theoretical and methodological discussions during the summer school, which was one of our key pedagogical goals: to teach the students how to combine theory and ethnography while researching electronic dance music scenes. In terms of years of participation in electronic dance music scenes, Arsène had 7 years of experience, Cyber 15 years and Anonymous no previous experience. Keywords: ankali; club; dance; ethnographic; experience; music; people; prague; school; space
• Berghain, Techno and the Body Factory: Ethnography of a Club’s Regulars by robin, guillaume (2024) - The idea of conducting an ethnographic study on Berghain emerged when I observed at various festivals in Brandenburg (Garbicz, Nation of Gondwana, Her Damit) that Berghain regulars were often identifiable by their distinctive dance style.12 One thing was clear: Berghain is much more than a machine. While many Berghain regulars had travelled to Tbilisi’s Bassiani club during the lockdown, the end of the pandemic has coincided with an influx of Ukrainian refugees into the Berghain scene. Keywords: age; audience; berghain; berlin; body; club; community; crowd; culture; dance; experience; night; regulars; robin; scene; space; study; techno; years
• Historical Emergence and Current Uses of the Term italodisco by Bottin, Guglielmo (2025) - For this reason, I prefer to use italo or spell italodisco as one word, since it is not merely shorthand for Italian disco music, as the hyphenated spelling italo-disco may seem to suggest. This earlier iteration of Italian dance music productions tried to match the disco sound that was coming out of the United States, Germany and France. Keywords: 1980s; dance; disco; inch; italian; italo; italodisco; music; oid; records; sound; zyx
• Executive Editor's Introduction by St John, Graham (2024) - Production Editor Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE) From the floor Editor Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Reviews Editor Anita Jóri (Berlin University of the Arts, DE) Operations director Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE) Foreign Languages Editor Moses Iten (RMIT, AU) Managing Editor Tommy Colton Symmes (Rice University, US) Community Manager Katrina Loughrey (DE) Art Director Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE) Operations Associate Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Associate Editors Ben Assiter (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Alistair Fraser (Maynooth University, IE) Moses Iten (RMIT, AU) Editor's Introduction, Masthead and Table of Contents Spaces of Dancing Edited by Ben Assiter V16.1 2024 Dancecult Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Issue 16(1) 2024 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2024 Dancecult Published yearly at International Advisory Board Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), Alistair Fraser (Maynooth University, IE), Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham, UK), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), Moses Iten (RMIT, AU), Anita Jóri (Berlin University of the Arts, DE), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Paolo Magaudda (University of Padova, IT), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Jordi Nofre (NOVA University Lisbon, PT), Alice O’Grady (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (University of Huddersfield, UK), Jonathan Sterne (McGill University, CA), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE), Toby Young (University of Oxford, UK) Keywords: culture; dance; dancecult; editor; music; university
• Negotiating Sonic Spaces: Exploring Urban Indian Youth and the Semantic Flux of Electronic Dance Music Culture by Chakravarty, Devpriya (2025) - The bicultural nature of urban Indian youth identity is a recurring theme in their engagement with EDMC. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews (2020–2023), the research highlights the shift of Indian dance music scene from its global underground origins to a commercialised mainstream culture. Keywords: chakravarty; class; contemporary; culture; dance; edm; edmc; festivals; global; goa; identities; identity; indian; london; music; new; scene; spaces; trance; urban; youth
• EDM, Tech-House or Business Techno? “Trolling” Inauthentic Club Music Through Social Media by Barlindhaug, Gaute (2025) - He returns to Gunders´s account of club music artists bringing more live instruments into their performance, but turns this development into a comic punchline. Abstract This article explores how the term EDM, along with other newer labels for club music, is used among some audiences to distinguish between authenticity and inauthenticity within club culture. Keywords: authenticity; club; club music; culture; dance; edm; group; house; media; memes; music; new; social; techno; term; troxler; twtmegp
• Beats on Airwaves: Radio, Electronic Dance Music Selection and Meanings by Mathei, Dennis (2025) - Shortening describes the structural streamlining of music titles in general. This development is not limited to edm and has been taking place in different music genres. Keywords: analysis; categories; dance; dance music; dancecult; editors; edm; edm titles; genres; music; pop; radio; radio stations; research; selection; sound; stations; time; titles
• On The Spectrum: Where Is EDM Placed Within Electronic Dance Music Culture? by Davis, Dylan; Callander, Mike; Haberfeld, David (2025) - The queer, POC roots of electronic dance music have been discarded, and the gender and racial diversity at the roots of electronic dance music culture have been corporatised to a bland homogeneity (Ghanny 2016). The history of electronic dance music involves the creation, occupation and repurposing of space for temporal freedoms. Keywords: aoki; artists; audience; culture; dance; djs; edm; events; music; november; space
• Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor (Emma Warren) by Anderson, Richard (2025) - By this, she means that dance music culture is not necessarily mundane (although it often is, as she demonstrates), but socially and structurally embedded; indeed, dance music is shot through with the same exclusions, hierarchies and contradictions as any other cultural practice. For Gadir, origin stories about Detroit, Chicago, Berlin and New York may have been politically useful in early subcultural theory, but they have since become canonical and limiting: “What has happened since,” she argues in the conclusion, “is that such interventions have become the accepted stories of dance music culture. Keywords: book; brown; chapter; club; culture; dance; dance music; dancing; gadir; live; liveness; music; paulette; streaming; techno; warren; work
• Assembling a Black Counter Culture (DeForrest Brown, Jr) by Öztürk, Emre (2025) - By this, she means that dance music culture is not necessarily mundane (although it often is, as she demonstrates), but socially and structurally embedded; indeed, dance music is shot through with the same exclusions, hierarchies and contradictions as any other cultural practice. For Gadir, origin stories about Detroit, Chicago, Berlin and New York may have been politically useful in early subcultural theory, but they have since become canonical and limiting: “What has happened since,” she argues in the conclusion, “is that such interventions have become the accepted stories of dance music culture. Keywords: book; brown; chapter; club; culture; dance; dance music; dancing; gadir; live; liveness; music; paulette; streaming; techno; warren; work
• Platformed! How Streaming, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are Shaping Music Cultures (Tiziano Bonini and Paolo Magaudda) by Finnan, Sean (2025) - By this, she means that dance music culture is not necessarily mundane (although it often is, as she demonstrates), but socially and structurally embedded; indeed, dance music is shot through with the same exclusions, hierarchies and contradictions as any other cultural practice. For Gadir, origin stories about Detroit, Chicago, Berlin and New York may have been politically useful in early subcultural theory, but they have since become canonical and limiting: “What has happened since,” she argues in the conclusion, “is that such interventions have become the accepted stories of dance music culture. Keywords: book; brown; chapter; club; culture; dance; dance music; dancing; gadir; live; liveness; music; paulette; streaming; techno; warren; work
• Live Spielen: Liveness in Performances elektronischer Tanzmusik (Josef Schaubruch) by McNeill, Jack (2025) - By this, she means that dance music culture is not necessarily mundane (although it often is, as she demonstrates), but socially and structurally embedded; indeed, dance music is shot through with the same exclusions, hierarchies and contradictions as any other cultural practice. For Gadir, origin stories about Detroit, Chicago, Berlin and New York may have been politically useful in early subcultural theory, but they have since become canonical and limiting: “What has happened since,” she argues in the conclusion, “is that such interventions have become the accepted stories of dance music culture. Keywords: book; brown; chapter; club; culture; dance; dance music; dancing; gadir; live; liveness; music; paulette; streaming; techno; warren; work
• Black Music in Britain in the 21st Century (Monique Charles, ed., with Mary W. Gani) by Brethome (2025) - By this, she means that dance music culture is not necessarily mundane (although it often is, as she demonstrates), but socially and structurally embedded; indeed, dance music is shot through with the same exclusions, hierarchies and contradictions as any other cultural practice. For Gadir, origin stories about Detroit, Chicago, Berlin and New York may have been politically useful in early subcultural theory, but they have since become canonical and limiting: “What has happened since,” she argues in the conclusion, “is that such interventions have become the accepted stories of dance music culture. Keywords: book; brown; chapter; club; culture; dance; dance music; dancing; gadir; live; liveness; music; paulette; streaming; techno; warren; work
• Dance Music: A Feminist Account of an Ordinary Culture (Tami Gadir) & Welcome to the Club: The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJ (DJ Paulette) by Hancock, Maren (2025) - By this, she means that dance music culture is not necessarily mundane (although it often is, as she demonstrates), but socially and structurally embedded; indeed, dance music is shot through with the same exclusions, hierarchies and contradictions as any other cultural practice. For Gadir, origin stories about Detroit, Chicago, Berlin and New York may have been politically useful in early subcultural theory, but they have since become canonical and limiting: “What has happened since,” she argues in the conclusion, “is that such interventions have become the accepted stories of dance music culture. Keywords: book; brown; chapter; club; culture; dance; dance music; dancing; gadir; live; liveness; music; paulette; streaming; techno; warren; work
• Introduction to EDM and its Discontents: The Contested Meaning of “Electronic Dance Music” by Jori, Anita (2025) - To address these questions and explore the discursive and cultural or regional conflicts surrounding this terminology, this special issue has encouraged researchers to share their experiences, perspectives, suggestions and findings regarding the controversies surrounding electronic dance music and EDM. In “Beats on Airwaves: Radio, Electronic Dance Music Selection and Meanings”, Dennis Mathei investigates the challenges of categorizing electronic dance music on German radio. Keywords: culture; dance; edm; issue; music
• Executive Editor's Introduction by St John, Graham (2025) - Production Editor Botond Vitos (DE) From the floor Editor Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Reviews Editor Anita Jóri (Leuphana University, DE) Operations director Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Foreign Languages Editor Moses Iten (RMIT, AU) Managing Editor Moses Iten (RMIT, AU) Community Manager Katrina Loughrey (DE) Art Director Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Operations Manager Evan Shulman (SDSU, USA) Associate Editors Ben Assiter (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Alistair Fraser (Maynooth University, IE) Moses Iten (RMIT, AU) Editor's Introduction, Masthead and Table of Contents EDM and its Discontents Edited by Anita Jóri V17.1 2025 JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC & DANCE CULTURE Dancecult Journal of Electronic Music & Dance Culture Issue 17(1) 2025 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2025 Dancecult Published yearly at International Advisory Board Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), Alistair Fraser (Maynooth University, IE), Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham, UK), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), Moses Iten (RMIT, AU), Anita Jóri (Berlin University of the Arts, DE), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Paolo Magaudda (University of Padova, IT), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Jordi Nofre (NOVA University Lisbon, PT), Alice O’Grady (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (University of Huddersfield, UK), Jonathan Sterne (McGill University, CA), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Rupert Keywords: culture; dance; dancecult; editor; music; university
• IDM as a "Minor" Literature: The Treatment of Cultural and Musical Norms by "Intelligent Dance Music" by Alwakeel, Ramzy (2009) - Humanism/mechanism; the mechanical subject-object A variety of IDM texts explore the meshing of human and mechanism, often by the location of “mechanical” forms within the human or of “subjective” forms within ma- chinery. Not only does this set up a difficulty between IDM and its supposed genealogy as a type of dance music: it resists any unmediated incorporation into IDM of the progressive rock “text”. Keywords: album; autechre; culture; dance; deleuze; guattari; identity; idm; intelligence; james; language; literature; music; reynolds; subject; subjectivity; text; track; warp
• Decline of the Rave Inspired Clubculture in China: State Suppression, Clubber Adaptations and Socio-cultural Transformations by Chew, Matthew M (2009) - But Chinese dance clubs, VIP rooms within dance clubs, karaoke boxes within a host- ess or karaoke establishment, private apartments or hotel rooms cannot be the contexts for such a collective atmosphere. But the interior spatial arrangement of Chinese dance clubs do not facilitate sociality so strongly. Keywords: china; chinese; clubbers; clubbing; clubculture; clubs; dance; drug; ecstasy; music; party; police; rave; state; suppression
• Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival by St John, Graham (2009) - It should be recognised, however, that, in evidence across global psytrance events, multiple elements jeopardise the “vibe”, where freak concentration is not essentially racial or phenotypical. As an evolved ex- pression of this dynamic, psytrance festivals enable participants from diverse national, cultural and stylistic backgrounds to give expression to their difference while at the same time potentiating the experience of singularity. Keywords: alternative; boom; culture; dance; dance music; dancecult; events; experience; festival; forthcoming; goa; graham; john; journal; london; movement; music; music culture; neotrance; new; participants; psytrance; rave; religion; routledge; self; st john; tribal; world; york
• Too Young to Drink, Too Old to Dance: The Influences of Age and Gender on (Non) Rave Participation by Gregory, Julie (2009) - Such a framework, it is maintained, helps highlight the nuanced influences of normative social discourses in relation to people’s experiences and descriptions of moving in, through and past active rave participation. Third, the importance of age and gender a propos in- terviewees’ past active rave participation is discussed.3 Finally, a review of the research findings and theoretically-informed suggestions for future research are offered. Keywords: age; culture; dance; experiences; gender; interviewees; music; participation; rave; ravers; scene; toronto; women
• DJ Culture in the Commercial Sydney Dance Music Scene by Montano, Ed (2009) - For this reason, the following discussion explores in greater detail the way local Sydney DJs interpret their profession, and works through some of the issues that shape and define the DJ’s role. As Sydney DJ Goodwill explains in regard to his own DJing: None of it is predetermined. Keywords: culture; dance; dance music; djs; music; play; playing; scene; set; sydney
• Convergence and Soniculture: 10 Years of MUTEK by van Veen, tobias c. (2009) - 1. vanVeen-typeset From the floor Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 1(1) 2009 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2009 Dancecult http://www.dancecult.net/ Convergence and Soniculture: 10 Years of MUTEK TOBIAS C. VAN VEEN MCGILL UNIVERSITY (CANADA) When considering electronic dance music culture (EDMC) – not as an object of study in the world, but as a description, a concept itself – the variables of the phrase come under some pressure. Satellite MUTEK festivals were established in Mexico, China and Chile, with events now taking place in Southern America and tours throughout Europe. Keywords: august; culture; dance; electronic; festival; music; mutek; new; photo; techno; tobias; van; van veen; veen
• The Hardcore Continuum? by Gilbert, Jeremy (2009) - Put simply, Reynolds has argued for the existence of an identifiable continuity between the producers of and audiences for a sequence of dance music forms to have emerged from urban London since the early 1990s, and has argued for the extraordinary vitality of the creative matrix which has produced “hardcore” techno, jungle, drum & bass, UK garage, grime, dubstep and “funky”. Like it or not, the flattened-out relationships of the digital universe just don’t produce musics which carry the same affective charge as those emerging from dense locales of shared lived experience. Keywords: continuum; culture; dance; dubstep; hardcore; london; music; reynolds
• 12 Noon, Black Rock City by St John, Graham (2009) - St John • 12 Noon, Black Rock City 129 Camp Low Expectations. St John • 12 Noon, Black Rock City 131 Mutate and Survive Green Gorilla Lounge. Keywords: black; city; dance; graham; john; man; photo; rock
• The Inverted Sublimity of the Dark Psytrance Dance Floor by Vitos, Botond (2009) - Such dance floors incorporate crowds of varying sizes, influenced by psychedelic drugs, and dancing through the night (and sometimes through the morning) on a music which can be considered the hard core of psytrance. Photo by Richard Cattien Based on my experiences and understanding of Hungarian, Czech and Greek psy- trance parties, this text offers a concise view on the aesthetic categories triggered by dark psychedelic dance floors. Keywords: dance; floor; music; sublime
• We Call It Techno! A Documentary About Germany’s Early Techno Scene (Sextro and Wick) by Rietveld, Hillegonda C. (2009) - ISBN: 978-1-881798-46-0 RRP: $35 (paperback) DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.16 LUCY GIBSON University of Manchester (UK) Dina Perrone’s study of “club kids” based in New York City presents an illuminating analysis of the cultural and situational context in which club drugs are used. Moreover, the chapter describes the ethno- graphic field methods deployed to study the participants’ use of club drugs such as MDMA, methamphetamine (crystal meth), ketamine and GHB. Keywords: analysis; berlin; book; club; culture; dance; drug; d’andrea; goa; kids; music; new; psytrance; race; rapp; saldanha; scene; techno; use; whelan; white
• Lost and Sound: Berlin, Techno, und der Easyjetset (Rapp) by Nye, Sean (2009) - ISBN: 978-1-881798-46-0 RRP: $35 (paperback) DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.16 LUCY GIBSON University of Manchester (UK) Dina Perrone’s study of “club kids” based in New York City presents an illuminating analysis of the cultural and situational context in which club drugs are used. Moreover, the chapter describes the ethno- graphic field methods deployed to study the participants’ use of club drugs such as MDMA, methamphetamine (crystal meth), ketamine and GHB. Keywords: analysis; berlin; book; club; culture; dance; drug; d’andrea; goa; kids; music; new; psytrance; race; rapp; saldanha; scene; techno; use; whelan; white
• Chromatic Variation in Ethnographic Research: A Review of Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race (Saldanha) by D'Andrea, Anthony (2009) - ISBN: 978-1-881798-46-0 RRP: $35 (paperback) DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.16 LUCY GIBSON University of Manchester (UK) Dina Perrone’s study of “club kids” based in New York City presents an illuminating analysis of the cultural and situational context in which club drugs are used. Moreover, the chapter describes the ethno- graphic field methods deployed to study the participants’ use of club drugs such as MDMA, methamphetamine (crystal meth), ketamine and GHB. Keywords: analysis; berlin; book; club; culture; dance; drug; d’andrea; goa; kids; music; new; psytrance; race; rapp; saldanha; scene; techno; use; whelan; white
• Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa (D'Andrea) by De Ledesma, Charles (2009) - ISBN: 978-1-881798-46-0 RRP: $35 (paperback) DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.16 LUCY GIBSON University of Manchester (UK) Dina Perrone’s study of “club kids” based in New York City presents an illuminating analysis of the cultural and situational context in which club drugs are used. Moreover, the chapter describes the ethno- graphic field methods deployed to study the participants’ use of club drugs such as MDMA, methamphetamine (crystal meth), ketamine and GHB. Keywords: analysis; berlin; book; club; culture; dance; drug; d’andrea; goa; kids; music; new; psytrance; race; rapp; saldanha; scene; techno; use; whelan; white
• Breakcore: Identity and Interaction on Peer-to-Peer (Whelan) by Ferrigno, Emily (2009) - ISBN: 978-1-881798-46-0 RRP: $35 (paperback) DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.16 LUCY GIBSON University of Manchester (UK) Dina Perrone’s study of “club kids” based in New York City presents an illuminating analysis of the cultural and situational context in which club drugs are used. Moreover, the chapter describes the ethno- graphic field methods deployed to study the participants’ use of club drugs such as MDMA, methamphetamine (crystal meth), ketamine and GHB. Keywords: analysis; berlin; book; club; culture; dance; drug; d’andrea; goa; kids; music; new; psytrance; race; rapp; saldanha; scene; techno; use; whelan; white
• The High Life: Club Kids, Harm and Drug Policy (Perrone) by Gibson, Lucy (2009) - ISBN: 978-1-881798-46-0 RRP: $35 (paperback) DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.16 LUCY GIBSON University of Manchester (UK) Dina Perrone’s study of “club kids” based in New York City presents an illuminating analysis of the cultural and situational context in which club drugs are used. Moreover, the chapter describes the ethno- graphic field methods deployed to study the participants’ use of club drugs such as MDMA, methamphetamine (crystal meth), ketamine and GHB. Keywords: analysis; berlin; book; club; culture; dance; drug; d’andrea; goa; kids; music; new; psytrance; race; rapp; saldanha; scene; techno; use; whelan; white
• Making a Noise – Making a Difference: Techno-Punk and Terra-ism by St John, Graham (2010) - And, like hardcore punk, and with the assistance of the ever-alert corporate entertainment in- dustry and its advertising arms, such style could be affected by those with little experi- ence of, or concern for, poverty, racism or the environment. By contrast with nihilists identifying with an exclusively shocking and anti-authoritarian aesthetic which would itself be subject to consumerist normaliza- tion, DIY milieus exemplified by the anarcho-punk band Crass and the free food “distro” activists Food Not Bombs would demonstrate commitment towards volunta- rism, social justice, human rights and ecological sustainability (McKay 1998).7 Imply- ing an historical trajectory, Dylan Clark (2003: 233) argues that with post-punk “the performance of anarchy” found in early punk would be replaced by “the practice of anarchism”. Keywords: 1990s; australia; culture; dance; dance music; dancecult; difference; figure; future; hardcore; jacobs; john; journal; labrats; making; media; music; new; noise; non; people; politics; post; punk; rave; sound; strong; sydney; system; techno
• Technics, Precarity and Exodus in Rave Culture by van Veen, tobias c. (2010) - Abstract 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 disciplines that look to various manifestations of subculture and counterculture for political innovation. So goes the received wisdom – witness the rise and fall of rave culture as riotous carnival declines into packaged hedonism. Keywords: collective; conditions; culture; dance; demands; exodus; forms; labour; leisure; mcrobbie; music; new; politics; precarity; press; question; rave; rave culture; technics; work
• The Aesthetics of Protest in UK Rave by Alwakeel, Ramzy (2010) - Accordingly, there is no model to be found within rave music for its response to the world outside itself. I therefore argue that rave’s aesthetic politics are dialectical, but that the dialectic does not recognise subject as privileged over object: indeed, the internal dynamics of rave records do not recognise the two as distinct at all. Keywords: act; aesthetic; autechre; culture; dance; experience; music; politics; power; protest; rave; sound; subject
• Memory and Nostalgia in Youth Music Cultures: Finding the Vibe in the San Francisco Bay Area Rave Scene, 2002-2004 by Wu, Eileen M (2010) - In the wake of the major commercial success of rave scenes in the San Francisco Bay Area, accompanied by an increasing crackdown on venues and promoters in the electronic dance music scene, this article follows the “death” of a rave scene and looks at some of the ways young people imagined and engaged with rave culture during that time. That is to say, the rave scene, as it existed in the early 2000s, occupied both mainstream and marginalized physical space, where the deregulation of a branded rave culture accompanied a re-regulation of the marginal, the deviant, and the supposed immoral aspects of rave culture (Chatterton and Hollands 2003: 56). Keywords: area; bay; culture; dance; experience; music; nostalgia; past; people; rave; respondents; scene; time; youth
• “Let’s Have At It!”: Conversations with EDM Producers Kate Simko and DJ Denise by Farrugia, Rebekah (2010) - Not only can Spectral take credit for its anomalous discovery but Simko’s presence is an element it can potentially use to differentiate itself from other EDM labels, most of which do not have any women on their rosters. Relying on personal interviews with both producers, this essay describes their experiences in order to highlight their different approaches to music production and distribution. Keywords: dance; denise; edm; kate; label; music; simko; women
• Capturing the Vision at California's Symbiosis Festival by Querner, Pascal (2010) - Participants 110 Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture • vol 1 no 2 For more information’s to the festival see www.symbiosisgathering.com and the following video of the 2009 event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvDOoV7s2X4 ••••••• Author Biography Pascal Querner is a biologist and photographer living in Berlin and Vienna who loves documenting psychedelic festivals and uses his camera to capture the spirit and atmosphere of each moment.  Compared to many other electronic music festivals, art, in the form of larger exhibitions, small galleries, dance and theater performances, and individuals selling self-made jewelry, represented a signi!cant component of the festi- val. Keywords: dance; music
• Reggaeton (Rivera, Marshall and Hernandez) by Madrid, Alejandro L. (2010) - However, the speed of techno city Berlin is reinforced with shots of the TV Tower at Alexanderplatz, techno’s preferred counter-monument of modern Berlin against the Brandenburg Gate. However, it offers important insights into changes in Berlin techno since the 1990s. Keywords: berlin; calling; chapter; city; club; clubbing; culture; dance; edm; film; lola; lola run; music; new; rave; reggaeton; rief; run; scene; techno
• Rave Culture: The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene (Anderson) by Peter, Beate (2010) - However, the speed of techno city Berlin is reinforced with shots of the TV Tower at Alexanderplatz, techno’s preferred counter-monument of modern Berlin against the Brandenburg Gate. However, it offers important insights into changes in Berlin techno since the 1990s. Keywords: berlin; calling; chapter; city; club; clubbing; culture; dance; edm; film; lola; lola run; music; new; rave; reggaeton; rief; run; scene; techno
• Club Cultures: Boundaries, Identities and Otherness (Rief) by Hutton, Fiona (2010) - However, the speed of techno city Berlin is reinforced with shots of the TV Tower at Alexanderplatz, techno’s preferred counter-monument of modern Berlin against the Brandenburg Gate. However, it offers important insights into changes in Berlin techno since the 1990s. Keywords: berlin; calling; chapter; city; club; clubbing; culture; dance; edm; film; lola; lola run; music; new; rave; reggaeton; rief; run; scene; techno
• Review Essay: Run Lola Run and Berlin Calling by Nye, Sean (2010) - However, the speed of techno city Berlin is reinforced with shots of the TV Tower at Alexanderplatz, techno’s preferred counter-monument of modern Berlin against the Brandenburg Gate. However, it offers important insights into changes in Berlin techno since the 1990s. Keywords: berlin; calling; chapter; city; club; clubbing; culture; dance; edm; film; lola; lola run; music; new; rave; reggaeton; rief; run; scene; techno
• Disco’s Revenge: House Music’s Nomadic Memory by Rietveld, Hillegonda C. (2011) - According to Lawrence (2003: 86), “Mancuso’s extended sets usually opened with a range of esoteric selections that slowly built into a fully charged session of African and Latino rhythms, driving R&B, and danceable rock”.8 This heady mix of ideas, people and sounds became of seminal importance to the genealogy of both disco and house music; several young aspiring underground disco DJs who later shaped the sound of dance music (including young Frankie Knuckles), regularly attended The Loft (Lawrence 2003). As an important aspect of disco music, the incessant groove has been forged within the basic functional DJ mix to keep dance music going all night long. Keywords: chicago; club; culture; dance; disco; example; heard; house; house music; london; mary; memory; mix; music; new; nomadic; production; records; rietveld; set; tracks; underground; york
• Maintaining "Synk" in Detroit: Two Case Studies in the Remix Aesthetic by Gholz, Carleton S. (2011) - A In an interview, conducted for the local Detroit alternative press paper Metro Times for an October 2010 performance by #e Wizard, Mills acknowledged why he might be interested in performing a potentially older mix of records with turntables by showing concern for the state of dance music culture’s musicians and audiences. Mills and Hawtin have much to contribute to this apparent impasse. Keywords: audience; dance; detroit; djs; hawtin; mills; music; new; ompson; people; performance; plastikman; remix; screen; sound; time; video
• Festival Fever and International DJs: The Changing Shape of DJ Culture in Sydney’s Commercial Electronic Dance Music Scene by Montano, Ed (2011) - Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research and participant-observation in the commercial electronic dance music scene in Sydney, this article explores how this festival fever is changing the shape of DJ and dance music culture in the city. The History of EDM Culture in Sydney The historical development of dance music culture in Sydney is intrinsically linked to the acid house phenomenon and warehouse party culture that developed in the UK in the late 1980s. Keywords: club; culture; dance; dance culture; dance music; day; djs; edm; events; festivals; house; international; line; mainstream; music; new; scene; sydney; underground
• Nomads in Sound vol. 1 by Gavanas, Anna (2010) - Moreover, in EDM culture, struggles for oppressed groups to claim sonic space as well as “struggles for the right to dance”, are crucial battles in contexts where authorities seek to regulate the activities of certain groups in specific areas (Buckland 2002). The tracks below, composed for the current project Nomads in Sound vol. 1, approach the central themes in EDM culture described above: Resolution Intent Mind States Struggle Communitas Belonging Resistance 1. EDM as Resolution: “Mawlid” by Mutamassik There can be no political solution without spiritual resolution. Keywords: communitas; dance; edm; john; music; resistance; sound
• Hip Hop Underground: The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification (Anthony Kwame Harrison) by Bodenheimer, Rebecca (2010) - Initially the protestival was concerned with the regulation of dance music culture, but has since been harnessed to a range of different causes. DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2011.02.01.08 PHIL KIRBY University of Liverpool, UK Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist whose latest publication explores “themes of counterculture and resistance” in global electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; documentary; donk; film; goodman; harrison; hip; hip hop; hop; john; music; psytrance; rave; rodgers; scene; sound; techno; underground; white; work
• The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance (Graham St John) by Till, Rupert (2010) - Initially the protestival was concerned with the regulation of dance music culture, but has since been harnessed to a range of different causes. DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2011.02.01.08 PHIL KIRBY University of Liverpool, UK Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist whose latest publication explores “themes of counterculture and resistance” in global electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; documentary; donk; film; goodman; harrison; hip; hip hop; hop; john; music; psytrance; rave; rodgers; scene; sound; techno; underground; white; work
• Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Tara Rodgers) by Gavanas, Anna (2010) - Initially the protestival was concerned with the regulation of dance music culture, but has since been harnessed to a range of different causes. DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2011.02.01.08 PHIL KIRBY University of Liverpool, UK Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist whose latest publication explores “themes of counterculture and resistance” in global electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; documentary; donk; film; goodman; harrison; hip; hip hop; hop; john; music; psytrance; rave; rodgers; scene; sound; techno; underground; white; work
• Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures (Graham St John) by Kirby, Philip Ronald (2010) - Initially the protestival was concerned with the regulation of dance music culture, but has since been harnessed to a range of different causes. DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2011.02.01.08 PHIL KIRBY University of Liverpool, UK Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist whose latest publication explores “themes of counterculture and resistance” in global electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; documentary; donk; film; goodman; harrison; hip; hip hop; hop; john; music; psytrance; rave; rodgers; scene; sound; techno; underground; white; work
• Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Steve Goodman) by van Veen, tobias c. (2010) - Initially the protestival was concerned with the regulation of dance music culture, but has since been harnessed to a range of different causes. DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2011.02.01.08 PHIL KIRBY University of Liverpool, UK Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist whose latest publication explores “themes of counterculture and resistance” in global electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; documentary; donk; film; goodman; harrison; hip; hip hop; hop; john; music; psytrance; rave; rodgers; scene; sound; techno; underground; white; work
• Music World: Donk (Dir. Andy Capper) by Kirby, Philip Ronald (2010) - Initially the protestival was concerned with the regulation of dance music culture, but has since been harnessed to a range of different causes. DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2011.02.01.08 PHIL KIRBY University of Liverpool, UK Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist whose latest publication explores “themes of counterculture and resistance” in global electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; documentary; donk; film; goodman; harrison; hip; hip hop; hop; john; music; psytrance; rave; rodgers; scene; sound; techno; underground; white; work
• Speaking in Code (Dir. Amy Grill) by van Veen, tobias c. (2010) - Initially the protestival was concerned with the regulation of dance music culture, but has since been harnessed to a range of different causes. DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2011.02.01.08 PHIL KIRBY University of Liverpool, UK Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist whose latest publication explores “themes of counterculture and resistance” in global electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: book; chapter; culture; dance; dancecult; documentary; donk; film; goodman; harrison; hip; hip hop; hop; john; music; psytrance; rave; rodgers; scene; sound; techno; underground; white; work
• Guest Editor's Introduction: Special Issue on the DJ by Gavanas, Anna; Attias, Bernardo Alexander (2011) - Dancecult Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Issue 3(1) 2011 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2011 Dancecult Published twice yearly at: International Advisory Board Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Eliot Bates (University of Maryland, College Park, US), Andy Bennett (Griffith University, AU), Mark J Butler (Northwestern University, US), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), François Gauthier (Université du Québec à Montréal, CA), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Chris Gibson (University of New South Wales, AU), Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London, UK), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Gordon Lynch (Birkbeck University of London, UK), Rene Lysloff (University of California, Riverside, US), Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago, US), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Tony Mitchell (University of Technology Sydney, AU), Karenza Moore (Lancaster University, UK), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (University of Queensland, AU), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), tobias c. van Veen (McGill University, CA), Michael Veal (Yale University, US) Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). .132 Charlie de Ledesma The idea for this special issue on DJ culture came about during a sound system party in Kingston in the summer of 2008. Keywords: culture; dance; djs; issue; music; university
• The Forging of a White Gay Aesthetic at the Saint, 1980–84 by Lawrence, Tim (2011) - These developments led Saint DJs to place an ever-greater emphasis on the creation of a smooth and seamless aesthetic that enhanced the crowd’s embrace of a synchronized dancing style. The article also notes that although Saint DJs were nearly unanimous in their rejection of house music across the 1985–88 period, they helped pioneer an aesthetic that emphasized smooth blending and the matching of texturally similar tracks across an extended period of time, and therefore anticipated the sensibility that would later inform a significant proportion of DJ mixing in clubs that supported electronic dance music. Keywords: aesthetic; crowd; culture; dance; dancers; disco; djs; gay; interview; leslie; mailman; men; music; new; night; records; saint; sound; thode; venue; vinyl; white; york
• Rumble in the Jungle: City, Place and Uncanny Bass by Christodoulou, Chris (2011) - For Henriques, bass frequencies galvanise participants into a complete whole within sonic space: “sound is everywhere, hardly even making the dualistic division between here and there” (2003: 459). Abstract While bass powerfully resonates among the cultural discourses, lexicology and marketing of a range of electronic dance music (EDM) styles, little popular music scholarship has paid attention to the subjective, phenomenological and psycho- physiological significance of bass in its modulation of intense feelings of pleasure. Keywords: bass; bass culture; body; city; culture; dance; drum; industrial; jungle; london; male; mother; music; sense; sound; space; speed; uncanny; womb
• DJ Goa Gil: Kalifornian Exile, Dark Yogi and Dreaded Anomaly by St John, Graham (2011) - Goa Gil party. DJ Goa Gil: Kalifornian Exile, Dark Yogi and Dreaded Anomoly Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 3(1): 97–128 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2011 Dancecult http://dj.dancecult.net DOI 10.12801/1947-5403.2011.03.01.05 Feature Article DJ Goa Gil Kalifornian Exile, Dark Yogi and Dreaded Anomaly Graham St John University of Queensland Abstract Connecting three generations of music enthusiasts, Goa Gil is an imposing figure in the world of psychedelic trance. Keywords: anjuna; author; beach; castle; culture; dance; dancecult; dark; devas; dj goa; email; figure; gil; goa; goa gil; goa trance; john; march; music; new; parties; party; psychedelic; psytrance; scene; techno; time; trance; world
• Seasoned Exodus: The Exile Mosaic of Psyculture by St John, Graham (2012) - Abstract Psychedelic trance music and culture (psyculture) is explored as a culture of exodus rooted in the seasonal dance party culture evolving in Goa, India, over the 1970s/1980s, and revealing a heterogeneous exile sensibility shaping Goa trance and psyculture from the 1990s/2000s. Thus, resisting circumscription under singular heuristic formulas, Goa trance and its progeny are shown to be internally diverse. Keywords: 1980s; anders; anjuna; beach; culture; dance; dancecult; exile; exodus; experience; figure; freak; goa; goa trance; john; movement; music; new; parties; party; photo; psyculture; psytrance; records; scene; sound; state; techno; trance; world
• Full Penetration: The Integration of Psychedelic Electronic Dance Music and Culture into the Israeli Mainstream by Schmidt, Joshua (2012) - Likewise, it supports Heelas and Woodhead’s (2005) observation that “outer directed religion” is being replaced by “inner directed spirituality” which has led to a “dual process of secularization with regard to religious observance and sacralization with regard to everyday life” (18).1 With secular Israeli PEDMC clearly infused with paradox, the second half of the article broadens the discussion of trance culture in Israel by focusing on a separate but parallel EDMC-related youth activity—trance parties for religious Israelis. Like mesibot fliers, dosibot fliers are cleverly worded, yet invites to religious dance parties are comparatively self-explanatory and welcoming. Keywords: behavior; communities; conduct; culture; dance; dancecult; dati’im; dosibot; dosistim; events; israeli; mesibot; music; orthodox; participants; parties; party; pedmc; penetration; psytrance; secular; socio; trance; trancistim; use; youth
• Spaces of Play: The Spatial Dimensions of Underground Club Culture and Locating the Subjunctive by O'Grady, Alice (2012) - | Spaces of Play would argue, play) allows us to see utopia as a process of spending time (2005: 13) that integrates social, political and aesthetic concerns. Whilst the example above sought to achieve political transformation on a relatively large scale, the performance academic Jill Dolan’s concept of “utopian performatives” is particularly useful here in helping to identify the smaller instances of personal shift that might be experienced through underground play. Keywords: club; culture; dance; festival; john; london; new; party; performance; play; psytrance; rave; routledge; space; underground; world; york
• Random Steps Through Boom Festival 2010 by Diotalevi, Lisa (2012) - Random Steps through Boom Festival 2010 Lisa Diotalevi University of Strasbourg Dance Temple, Boom Festival, Portugal (2010). Tripical Beach, Boom Festival 2010. Keywords: boom; dance; festival; music
• Aurora Festival and the Sacred Rituals of Samothraki: Past, Present... What Future? by Baldini, Chiara (2012) - Sometimes it sounds even a bit too slow for the night, but still, for me, it is much better than the ultra dark necro-trance often played at night in many parties. She has been attending psytrance parties since the late 1990s, joining festivals all around the world. Keywords: dance; festival; greek; island; photo; psytrance; samothraki
• Editor's Introduction by St John, Graham (2012) - Paul Jasen (Carleton University, CA) Marc Kushin Garth Sheridan Dancecult Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Issue 4(2) 2012 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2012 Dancecult Published twice yearly at http://dj.dancecult.net International Advisory Board Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Eliot Bates (University of Maryland, College Park, US), Andy Bennett (Griffith University, AU), Mark J Butler (Northwestern University, US), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), François Gauthier (Université du Québec à Montréal, CA), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Chris Gibson (University of New South Wales, AU), Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London, UK), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Gordon Lynch (Birkbeck University of London, UK), Rene Lysloff (University of California, Riverside, US), Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago, US), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Tony Mitchell (University of Technology Sydney, AU), Karenza Moore (Lancaster University, UK), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (University of Queensland, AU), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), tobias c. van Veen (McGill University, CA), Michael Veal (Yale University, US) Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: dance; editor; music; production; university
• Crossdressing to Backbeats: The Status of the Electroclash Producer and the Politics of Electronic Music by Madden, David (2012) - Even though the electro of the 1980s is very commonly referred to as either electro, electro-funk or electro-boogie, there is generally a tremendous amount of disagreement amongst electronic dance music producers, consumers, listeners and scholars when it comes to fixing certain musical styles within genre boundaries. These supposed design flaws prevented it from being widely accepted amongst electronic dance music producers. Keywords: album; artists; culture; dance; dance music; drum; electroclash; genre; house; music; new; peaches; play; practices; producers; production; recording; rock; sound; studio; techno; tigre; way
• “Clubs aren’t like that”: Discos, Deviance and Diegetics in Club Culture Cinema by Morrison, Simon Andrew (2012) - As Hebdige remarks, music (in film terms, the soundtrack) is of paramount importance to subcultures, and therefore the films that fall within the EDMC film canon, and have music itself at their core. For clarity let us refer to these two functions of film texts as Beeler’s 1st and 2nd law. Keywords: audience; cinema; club; culture; dance; ecstasy; edmc; experience; film; heydon; music; nightclub; rave; scene; terms; texts; welsh
• Acid House Night at Cuckoo, Hindley St, Adelaide, South Australia July 2011. by Adamek, Cathy (2012) - At Cuckoo, suss out dance floor—best position and sound in the middle, and Sugar at the front near the DJ box. Being seen and being watched is as important as performing for oneself in this context, where clothes and dance style are gifts you bring to make the night special. Keywords: cam; dance; floor; music; new
• Editor's Introduction: Doing Nightlife and EDMC Fieldwork by Garcia, Luis-Manuel (2013) - Dancecult 5(1)12 Finally, confidentiality is an especially important consideration for EDM fieldwork, although these concerns do not differ greatly in their nature from those found in the ethnography of “hidden” populations, and so one can find a great deal of guidance in already-established practices. Nonetheless, one issue that may arise in EDM fieldwork concerns scene-actors who are also publicly-known performers and/or promoters: on the one hand, it may become difficult to conceal their identities as they disclose details about their biography and musical practices; on the other hand, they may explicitly request that their real name or artist’s moniker be used in order to raise their own public profile. Keywords: chicago; dance; edm; edmc; ethnography; events; fieldwork; issue; methods; music; new; nightlife; research; scenes; studies; university
• Alone, Asian and Female: The Unspoken Challenges of Conducting Fieldwork in Dance Settings by Bhardwa, Bina (2013) - On both fieldwork trips I chose to stay in Playa den Bossa, which I perceived to be a safer environment to conduct field research, away from the alcohol-fuelled crowds of San Antonio. Having seen my ID card pinned to my top, many clubbers at this event were intrigued about what I was doing and approached me, which took the pressure off of me to actively seek research participants. Keywords: club; culture; dance; female; field; fieldwork; friends; ibiza; identity; interview; lone; night; participants; process; research; settings; spaces; tent; university; use
• Looks: Studio 54 and the Production of Fabulous Nightlife by moore, madison alexander (2013) - Nonetheless, Studio’s strenuous door policy marks the beginning of the popularization as well as the mainstreaming of “door culture” in New York nightlife. For Siano, in other words, Studio 54 featured the superfluous and perhaps more commercialized aspects of nightlife culture, not necessarily the vibe, the music or even the DJs. Keywords: club; culture; dance; door; experience; music; new; nightlife; party; people; space; studio; study; way; york
• Writing the Vibe: Arts of Representation in Electronic Dance Music Culture by St John, Graham (2013) - In the “second life of the people”, disorder, freakiness, the anomalous, hold sovereignty, a rollicking circumstance fuelled by mind-alterants such as the psychoactive compounds and research chemicals circulating within EDM event cultures, like THC, 2C-I or methoxetamine. Cultural datafacts may then be purposed to gnostic clarity, while at other times, on other dance floors, and under the direction of other DJs, or perhaps within the same track, they may be purposed to subvert, confuse, mystify. Keywords: anthropology; compounds; culture; dance; edm; events; experience; field; floor; john; media; music; new; press; producers; records; research; researchers; ritual; self; studies; trance; turner; university; vibe; york
• Dance Floors of the Mind: Performing Nightlife Research During the Day by Hyndman, Sheena D. (2013) - When it came to discerning the effects of remixed music consumption on the listening habits of my non-musician audience respondents, this broad approach allowed me to gain insight on why it is that people listen to remixed music in a variety of different contexts. Dance Floors of the Mind: Performing Nightlife Research During the Day Sheena Hyndman York University (Canada) Over the last decade, electronic dance music (EDM) has become a pervasive musical and cultural phenomenon, extending far beyond the realm of the underground dance scene and becoming something of a fixture in contemporary popular culture. Keywords: dance; edm; floor; music; people; research; respondents
• Negotiating Salient Identities in Queer EDM Spaces by Rosendahl, Todd J. (2013) - During an interview with an important staff member in 2010, I began the conversation discussing my credentials as a doctoral student with experience conducting research projects in other queer dance spaces, assuming it would be important in this case. As such, it became an important part of the social fabric for many queer individuals and straight allies in Tallahassee. Keywords: community; dance; queer; university
• A Proposed Typology of Sampled Material Within Electronic Dance Music by Ratcliffe, Robert (2014) - Abstract The following article contains a proposed typology of sampled material within electronic dance music (EDM). A Proposed Typology of Sampled Material Within Electronic Dance Music 99 Figure 1: A proposed typology of sampled material within EDM. Keywords: bass; category; dance; drum; edm; elements; example; material; music; new; performance; ratcliffe; sample; sampling; sound; source; sub; track; transformation; typology; use
• Stay in Synch!: Performing Cosmopolitanism in an Athens Festival by Lalioti, Vassiliki (2013) - Participating in Synch festival is a complex activity. However, according to participants, the history of Synch festival shows a process of the two cultural poles of high-brow and low-brow (Levine 1988; Peterson and Kern 1996) merging, while mainstream dance-based styles and experimental music and artists become Lalioti | Performing Cosmopolitanism in an Athens Festival 143 more mixed. Keywords: artists; arts; athens; audience; city; contemporary; cosmopolitanism; cultural; culture; dance; events; festival; greece; greek; international; music; new; participants; people; synch; world
• “An Avatar ... in a Physical Space”: Researching the Mediated Immediacy of Electronic Dance Floors by Vitos, Botond (2014) - Similar accounts were stated by my interlocutors, with one describing the influence of such drugs through the analogy of using coloured sunglasses. Attempting to address the possible ontological status of drug worlds, during a focus group I enquired about Second Life, the online virtual world where users interact with each other through “avatars”.4 The expression had been spontaneously applied to techno parties by Stuart, and subsequently adopted by other participants of the same focus group. Keywords: baudrillard; consumer; consumption; culture; dance; drugs; effects; everyday; experience; focus; life; media; melbourne; music; reality; space; symbolic; techno; world
• Ethnography From the Inside: Industry-based Research in the Commercial Sydney EDM Scene by Montano, Ed (2013) - My understanding of the UK dance scene, when placed alongside and in contrast to my exploration of the Sydney scene, granted me an increased sense of the fluidity and interaction between dance music scenes around the world. As a method of research into music scenes, ethnography has been, and remains, a useful and productive approach. Keywords: culture; dance; dance music; djs; edm; ethnography; industry; insider; local; music; people; record; research; scene; study; sydney; work
• The Vibe of the Exiles: Aliens, Afropsychedelia and Psyculture by St John, Graham (2013) - Psytrance shares music production technologies and DJ techniques with other electronic dance music cultures (EDMCs), including “Detroit techno”. Keywords: alien-ation; psyculture; Afrofuturism; posthumanism; psytrance; exiles; aliens; vibe Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist and researcher of electronic dance music cultures and festivals. Keywords: alien; alienation; astral; black; culture; dance; dancecult; earth; exiles; experience; floor; goa; inch; john; london; music; new; planet; psyculture; psytrance; records; rock; self; sound; space; st john; sun; techno; trance; vibe; vinyl; world; york
• On the Content and Contribution of MCs in British Drum 'n' Bass by Fraser, Alistair (2014) - Moreover, the use of “call and response” interactions between MCs and the audience, which “involves a succession of two distinct phrases performed by different musicians, whereby the second is heard as a direct response to the first” (2009: 53), reflects the Black Atlantic diaspora (Gilroy 1993) of which many MCs are members. Not surprisingly, lyrics by leading MCs such as Funsta have led some commentators within the industry to publicly call for an end, as the following tweet from drum ‘n’ bass journalist Joanna Ronson and subsequent (sarcastic) re-tweet by MC Funsta demonstrates: “‘@JoannaRonson: @FunstaMC remember our little chat in Brizzle? Keywords: bass; bass mcs; bass music; british; british drum; culture; dance; drum; events; fraser; london; lyrics; mcs; music; rave; way; work
• Fabulous: Sylvester James, Black Queer Afrofuturism, and the Black Fantastic by Anderson, Reynaldo (2013) - Although performers like Alice and John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and others would parallel and contribute to the experimental expression of black music of the time, it was Ra’s critical heterodox form of extraterrestrial utopianism that would later aesthetically influence musical groups like Earth, Wind & Fire, George Clinton and his groups Parliament and Funkadelic in the 1970s. However, what is less understood is how Afrofuturism is related to the cultural production of one of the musical genres that Afrofuturism engages with: disco music. Keywords: african; afrofuturism; culture; dance; disco; gay; music; new; sylvester
• Vocalizing: MC culture in the UK by Zuberi, Nabeel (2013) - There is both a curatorial and hauntological dimension to some of instrumental grime’s use of MC voices. The range of sites for MC voices across media is a theme in many Grime tracks, which offer a vernacular commentary on the emergent media assemblages in which these recording artists work. Keywords: culture; dance; grime; hip; london; music; recordings; trim; voice; wiley
• Electronica, Dance and Club Music (ed. Mark J. Butler) by Rietveld, Hillegonda C (2013) - These include authors such as Mark J. Butler, Tara Rodgers, Fiona Buckland, Anthony D'Andrea, Graham St John, Arun Saldanha and others, who engage with electronic dance music cultures from musicological and/or anthropological perspectives. A complete anthology is never possible, but it does provide a handy point of reference for those that teach in the area of electronic dance music and culture, and it can also work well as a primer for an early literature review in research dissertation work. Keywords: culture; dance; music
• Music is a plane of wisdom—Transmissions from the Offworlds of Afrofuturism by van Veen, tobias c. (2013) - Afrofuturism, coined by Mark Dery in a 1993 roundtable with Samuel R. Delany, Tricia Rose and Greg Tate, arose to describe the production of Afrodiasporic science fiction in multiple art forms, from music to literature, comics to film. But Afrofuturism—as Dery pointed out himself, along with his interlocutors—is inherently more complex than this. Keywords: afrofuturism; dance; fiction; identity; music; science; sun
• Old Instruments, New Agendas: The Chemical Brothers and the ARP 2600 by Zeiner-Henriksen, Hans T. (2014) - The Chemical Brothers indicate their disapproval of the fact that everybody can get their hands on new digital synthesizers (later in the interview, they also mention equipment made in very limited numbers by an esoteric German producer). Furthermore, old analogue synthesizers have a number of outboard controllers that facilitate altering or modifying sounds while playing, and the instrument is housed in a wooden, not plastic, case, lending it both substance and a sense of history. Keywords: analogue; bijker; brothers; chemical; dance; digital; house; instruments; music; musicians; new; sound; synthesizers; technology
• “Waiting for the Bass to Drop”: Correlations between Intense Emotional Experiences and Production Techniques in Build-up and Drop Sections of Electronic Dance Music by Solberg, Ragnhild Torvanger (2014) - My hypothesis is that the musical features in these parts affect us to such a great extent that they can contribute to intense musical experience, and placed in a broader club context, provide the clubbers with peak experiences. Through a theoretical framework consisting of musical expectancy and gravity, an analysis of two recently produced EDM tracks suggests that i) extensive use of uplifters, ii) the “drum roll effect”, iii) large frequency changes, iv) removal and reintroduction of bass and bass drum, and v) a contrasting “breakdown” cause tension and anticipation, which seem to correlate with a possible intensification of emotional experience. Keywords: bass; bass drum; body; build; clubbers; dance; drop; drum; edm; experience; icarus; madeon; music; responses; techniques; track
• The Creative Studio Practice of Contemporary Dance Music Sampling Composers by Morey, Justin; McIntyre, Phillip (2014) - This emphasis on timbre over melody further enforces the idea that the co-opted participants in sample based music will often be the musicians that played on the sampled track, and that moments of performance that are sonically pleasing are often of more interest to sampling composers than identifiable riffs or melodies. Perhaps the chief distinction between sampling composers and other popular music composers in this regard is that the foundations in their ground-up approach may often arrive ready-made. Keywords: author; composers; dance; interview; loop; mcintyre; morey; music; practice; production; record; sample; sampling; sound; studio; time; use
• Laevorotation at Boom 2012 by Manuel, Reba T. (2014) - My temporal pursuit accelerates at the cusp of the moment where an ostensibly endless event will peak, festival time will compress and, tragically, it will be over. Photo credit: Jakob Kolar (2012). Keywords: acid; boom; credit; dance; festival; figure; lake; people; photo; temple; time
• DJ Culture in the Mix: Power, Technology, and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music (eds. Bernardo Alexander Attias, Anna Gavanas and Hillegonda C. Rietveld) by Nardi, Carlo (2014) - Specifically, Hall and Zukic draw on Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of refrain to establish the function of the DJ as a deterritorializer of “power/knowledge spaces of EDM culture” (106); Christodoulou deals with the ritualization of speed at social dance events within drum ‘n’ bass, thus offering a concrete illustration of Paul Virilio’s idea of a “regime of speed” within contemporary capitalism; Paulsson investigates the adoption of military aesthetics within Swedish so-called synthscenen and the political economy of sexuality that is thereby constructed; and Morrison engages the reader in an excursion into literary reinterpretations of DJ culture by Irvine Welsh and Pat W. Hendersen. I will then conclude with some remarks that are intended to problematize the association between DJ culture and EDM. Keywords: attias; culture; dance; edm; music
• Beyond the Dance Floor: Female DJs, Technology and Electronic Dance Music Culture (Rebekah Farrugia) by Rietveld, Hillegonda C (2014) - Female DJs negotiate this performative dimension of their profession through self-conscious use of dress codes. In the US, this includes online forums, similar to female:pressure, and e-zines, such as Shejay, as well as potlucks at which female DJs gather to exchange technical skills and musical knowledge. Keywords: dance; djs; music; women
• Production Technologies and Studio Practice in Electronic Dance Music Culture Guest Editors’ Introduction by Montano, Ed; Zagorski-Thomas, Simon (2014) - The landscape of music production has shifted significantly in recent years, with digital technologies, software and home studios supplanting analogue hardware and professional studio spaces. Women are conspicuous by their absence in these articles, which is reflective of the field of music production more broadly. Keywords: dance; edm; issue; music; practice; production; studio; technologies; technology; university
• This Place is my Place: Sunrise [Total Recall], West Indian Centre, Leeds, UK. by O'Grady, Alice (2014) - Cold night air—it’s not summer yet, remember. We stand here on the cusp of lighter nights, brighter days and the promise of good things to come. Keywords: centre; dance; place; sunrise; time
• How To Cure a Gabba by Balli, Riccardo (2014) - Hardly anything has been written, said or debated about gabber, especially in Italy. The first wave of gabber rose from the ashes of hard house, in the early nineties, in Rotterdam, around Den Hag and partially in Amsterdam, from a sound inspired by hedonistic elements, distinguished by a 4/4 tempo at 140BPM with melodic contrapuntal synth-leads accompanied by soul vocal samples, in which their only purpose was to find the most effective form of entertainment. Keywords: dance; frequencies; gabba; gabber; hardcore; music; noise; techno; time
• Masthead by St John, Graham (2014) - ©2014 Dancecult Published twice yearly at International Advisory Board Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Eliot Bates (University of Maryland, College Park, US), Andy Bennett (Griffith University, AU), Mark J Butler (Northwestern University, US), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), Luis-Manuel Garcia, University of Groningen (NL), François Gauthier (Université du Québec à Montréal, CA), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Chris Gibson (University of New South Wales, AU), Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London, UK), Alice O’Grady, University of Leeds (UK), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Gordon Lynch (Birkbeck University of London, UK), Rene Lysloff (University of California, Riverside, US), Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago, US), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Tony Mitchell (University of Technology Sydney, AU), Karenza Moore (Lancaster University, UK), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (Griffith University, AU), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), tobias c. van Veen (McGill University, CA), Michael Veal (Yale University, US), Andrew Whelan (University of Wollongong, Australia) Foreign Languages Editor Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Groningen, NL) Production Editor Botond Vitos (DE) Operations director Ed Montano (RMIT University, AU) Keywords: dance; music; university
• Harm Reduction or Psychedelic Support? Caring for Drug-Related Crises at Transformational Festivals by Ruane, Deirdre (2015) - Her research interests include drug harm reduction, festival cultures and EDMCs. “Psychedelic harm reduction” is a somewhat contentious phrase. Keywords: culture; dance; discourse; drug; festival; harm; harm reduction; kosmicare; policy; reduction; self; space; support; use; users; visitors; workers; zendo
• DJ Mini and Montreal’s Vulgar Dance Music by Madden, David (2016) - Dominant histories of electronic dance music have typically been woven by a “moral geography”, says Will Straw, which tend to selectively emphasize the more rigid and mechanical Northern European styles of dance music while rooting out and downplaying its more extravagant and vulgar permutations and expressive possibilities (2008: 114–5). Previous to these developments, electronic dance music DJs and performers usually took more of an anonymous stance in a live setting, even if they were high profile DJs and/ or producers. Keywords: 1990s; city; club; culture; dance; dance music; disco; djs; drouin; electroclash; mini; mix; montreal; music; new; night; overdose; production; scene; straw
• Dead by Dawn 1995 by Balli, Riccardo (2015) - The discussion moved eventually to the anti-chill out zone, in front of a big pot of chips and beans, a post-Dead by Dawn ritual. I walked through all of Hackney, then London Bridge as I marched on endlessly towards South London. Keywords: art; crash; dance; dawn; floor; home; london; music; night; sound
• Strobe light Salvation by Ghannoum, Michael Arty (2015) - “It’s what separates us from junkies”, he’s said time and time again. “I guess it’s about time we get into this mess”. Keywords: dance; hand; kurt; mind; right; step; time
• Why Music Matters (David Hesmondhalgh) by Nelligan, Kat (2015) - This is followed by a discussion of how dance music enriches people’s lives through the bodily experience of dancing. He traces music’s changing relations to sex and sexuality, discussing themes of love and emotion in post-WWII pop music; notions of sexual freedom and the sexual politics of countercultural rock music; sex and love in relation to dance music and the dance floor; punk music’s rejection of romantic love and its embracing of gay politics; alternative rock’s hyper masculinity; and the sexual explicitness and racialised sexualities of twenty-first century pop and hip-hop. Keywords: dance; hesmondhalgh; music; value
• Introduction to Weekend Societies: EDM Festivals and Event-Cultures by St John, Graham (2015) - So far as dance cultural studies is concerned, this is relatively fresh terrain, despite the fact that EDM cultural events and their event-cultures proliferate and diversify rapidly. Such triggers an avalanche of questions concerning the role of new mediatisation practices in EDM cultural events, notably the deregulation of broadcasting that has permitted event-organisations to distribute video by way of YouTube and social media. Keywords: boom; culture; dance; dancecult; edm; event; experience; festivals; free; global; introduction; john; man; music; new; participants; societies; university; way; weekend
• War Dubs by Zuberi, Nabeel (2015) - Such a picture might help us to visualize the affinities, threads and traces that run through Jamaican dub and other electronic dance music since its emergence in Kingston studios and sound system culture in the early 1970s. My interest here is primarily in how a few of dub’s techniques pervade electronic dance music culture and mediate the representations and affects of violent conflict, particularly since 9/11 with the “war on terror”, the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, and the growth in the western hemisphere of surveillance and securitization. Keywords: bass; culture; dance; dub; gibbs; inch; joe; music; sound; system; war
• The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher and xtine burrough eds.) by Rietveld, Hillegonda C. (2015) - Although the role of the DJ has shifted over the years, at that time DJs could be regarded as performers who used mass-produced consumer items, in this case music recordings, as narrative elements to produce a unique dialogue with dancers. In a parallel world, in the context of Jamaican reggae, dub emerged as a type of remix practice. Keywords: dance; dub; music; remix; sound
• Life and Death on the Pulse Dance Floor: Transglocal Politics and the Erasure of the Latinx in the History of Queer Dance Culture by Lawrence, Tim (2016) - A history of Latinx dance culture that extends to the 1980s and 1990s might take account of several key developments, including the rise of John “Jellybean” Benitez as one of the most influential party DJs of the early 1980s; the contribution of Shannon’s “Let the Music Play” to the emergence of freestyle as a uniquely Latin-flavoured dance floor sound, including Nayobe’s breakthrough contribution; the manner in which “Little” Louie Vega made a name for himself on the New York freestyle scene before becoming one of the most influential house music DJs of the 1990s; the game-changing impact of Vega’s Masters at Work and Nuyorican Soul collaboration with Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez, which saw the duo frequently team up with Latinx musicians as they established themselves as the most influential house music remix/production team of the decade; the contribution of Chicago Latinx DJs and artists, including Jesse Velez, Ralphie Rosario and Liz Torres, and New York DJ/producer/remixer David Morales; the pioneering role played by Cutting Records and Nervous Records when it came to showcasing Latinx house artists; the ongoing fluctuations of the New York dance floor, which included the rise of the House of Xtravaganza as the first Latinx ballroom house and the closure of the Garage; and the opening of a number of queer Latinx and cross racial party spots, including Escuelita and Suspect in Manhattan, Krash in Queens, and the Warehouse in the Bronx. Like Latinidad it understands connections that exist between Latinx people without reducing them to an essential characteristic. Keywords: attack; august; community; culture; dance; death; disco; djs; floor; gay; july; june; latinx; lawrence; lgbtq; life; massacre; mateen; music; new; night; orlando; people; pulse; queer; rivera; terrorism; violence; york
• Dancing to the Loop: Repetition in Contemporary Music - An Interview with Tilman Baumgärtel by Lovink, Geert (2016) - Arguably, Schleifen is the first book on the history of electronic music that is solely dedicated to loops. I don’t want to say that they are right as far as electronic music is concerned, but I can see where they are coming from. Keywords: book; dance; loops; media; music; new; repetition; tape; techno; time; type; way
• Masthead by St John, Graham (2016) - ©2016 Dancecult Published yearly at International Advisory Board Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Eliot Bates (University of Maryland, College Park, US), Andy Bennett (Griffith University, AU), Mark J Butler (Northwestern University, US), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham, UK), François Gauthier (CA), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago, US), Paolo Magaudda (University of Padova, IT), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Ed Montano (RMIT University, AU), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Alice O’Grady (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (University of Fribourg, CH), Jonathan Sterne (McGill University, CA), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Foreign Languages Editor Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Groningen, NL) Production Editor Botond Vitos (DE) Operations director Ed Montano (RMIT University, AU) Keywords: dance; music; university
• Forty-Seven DJs, Four Women: Meritocracy, Talent, and Postfeminist Politics by Gadir, Tami (2017) - This interview was conducted as part of my current research project (2015–18) on women DJs from around the world. Together with other policies that include affirmative action for women on corporate boards and gender self-determination legislation, it has helped to inform the contemporary, mainstream cultural paradigm of gender equality in Norway. Keywords: agents; booking; club; culture; dance; djs; equality; female; gadir; gender; interview; lars; male; media; music; norway; oslo; participants; people; talent; women; work
• Delian Modes: Listening for Delia Derbyshire in Histories of Electronic Dance Music by Morgan, Frances (2017) - The media play a key role in presenting, framing and delineating areas of music in which such traditional genre boundaries demarcating “popular” and “classical”, or, say, “EDM” and “ambient’, or “techno” and “noise” are blurred or problematised; they also, Dancecult 9(1)12 increasingly, present accounts of electronic music history, which might otherwise remain an area of specialist study, to a general public that includes groups such as record collectors, music technology enthusiasts and EDM fans. In “Pioneer Spirits: New Media Representations of Women In Electronic Music History” (Morgan 2017: 238–49), I argue that, “print and online media play a role in making visible certain aspects of electronic music history to consumers who might also be practising musicians, music scholars, and potential researchers”, while “[a]cademic writers and researchers exploring the relations between gender, sound and technology increasingly use the same platforms as online critics to discuss, promote and present their interests” (Morgan 2017: 239). Keywords: bbc; dance; dance music; delia; delia derbyshire; derbyshire; edm; feminist; gender; histories; history; media; morgan; music; radiophonic; sound; women; workshop

• Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals And Event-Cultures (Graham St John, ed.) by De Ledesma, Charles (2018) - St John explains, “I have long been cognisant that festivals, especially those across the alternative spectrum of events, are transformational. Further chapters explore equally fascinating and instructive avenues of the EDMC, or wider alternative festival, experience. Keywords: culture; festival; john; man; music; ruane
• Ten Years of Dancecult by St John, Graham (2019) - Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Dancecult Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Issue 11(1) 2019 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2019 Dancecult Published yearly at International Advisory Board Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Eliot Bates (University of Birmingham, UK), Andy Bennett (Griffith University, AU), Mark J Butler (Northwestern University, US), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham, UK), François Gauthier (University of Fribourg, CH), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago, US), Paolo Magaudda (University of Padova, IT), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Alice O’Grady (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (University of Fribourg, CH), Jonathan Sterne (McGill University, CA), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), tobias c. van Veen (Université de Montréal, CA), Michael Veal (Yale University, US), Botond Vitos (University of Fribourg, CH) Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Executive Editorial, Masthead and Table of Contents Ageing with EDMC Guest Editor David Madden Volume 11 Number 1 2019 Executive Editor Graham St John (University of Fribourg, CH) Production Editor Botond Vitos (University of Fribourg, CH) From the floor Editors Alice O’Grady (University of Leeds, UK) Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Reviews Editor Toby Young (University of Oxford, UK) Operations director Botond Vitos (University of Fribourg, CH) Managing Editor Tommy Colton Symmes (Rice University, US) Community Manager Katrina Loughrey (GE) Art Director Botond Vitos (University of Fribourg, CH) Associate Editors Kath O’Donnell (AU) Keywords: culture; dancecult; editor; fribourg; music; university
• The Vibe as Peace: EDMC Conflict Studies and Montreal Psytrance Spheres by Castagner, Marc-Olivier (2020) - He specializes in critical security, conflict and peace studies and the thought of Peter Sloterdijk. He previously published on the relationship between humour and violence and European security, and he lectured in peace studies and conflict resolution at St. Paul University in Ottawa. Keywords: conflict; culture; dietrich; edmc; experience; harmony; modern; montreal; new; party; peace; psytrance; sloterdijk; space; spheres; studies; vibe; world
• Out of Love:: EDM Tourism to Ibiza and the Repression of Local Cultural Identity by Hayward, Philip Roy (2021) - Regarded as irredeemably cheesy by aficionados of Ibizan club culture, the song merits passing comment. Out of Love: EDM Tourism to Ibiza and the Repression of Local Cultural Identity Philip Hayward University of Technology Sydney (Australia) As a researcher of both island cultures and music more generally, I have had the opportunity to collaborate in research in Chiloé island, in South America, in Japan’s Amami and Ogasawara islands and in Vanuatu over the last decade. Keywords: club; culture; ibiza; island; music; scene; tourism
• Genre in Practice: Categories, Metadata and Music-Making in Psytrance Culture by Charles, Christopher David (2020) - Web 2.0 services have given musicians greater control over how their music is categorised than in previous eras, and the tagging systems they contain have created a non-hierarchical environment in which musical genres, descriptive terms, and a wide range of other metadata can be deployed in combination, allowing musicians to describe their musical output with greater subtlety than before. Genre and the Internet When the first internet music distribution services (CDNow, Amazon) emerged in the mid-1990s, decisions about musical genre were made by the individual or group responsible for managing a given website: the webmaster. Keywords: categories; concepts; culture; forest; genre; globular; krosis; making; metadata; music; pedm; practice; psydub; psytrance; scene; sounds; tags; terms; use
• A Post-Post-Soviet Scene Post-Quarantine by Liederman, Camille LeBlanc (2020) - While it was a scary time for all of us around the world, it was also an epic time to be collecting anthropological data on an underground culture, specifically rave culture.[2] My work became about presenting a portrait of Lithuanian rave culture as it existed just before this quarantine took place. It's not like super offensive, I don't really think ravers care much, it's more like wtf.[5] What was most interesting about this was that it seemed that the quarantine's void in actual rave events taking place was being filled with an amplified discourse of real and fake ravers, a discursive differencing mechanism that has been documented as part of Lithuanian rave culture since the 1990s (Šliavaitė 1997). Keywords: culture; post; quarantine; rave; soviet; underground
• Black Feminism and the Violence of Disco by von Pawel-Rammingen, Katharina (2021) - Both Lawrence and Shapiro include women in their histories, but neither significantly engage with the meanings of Black women’s contribution to disco for Black women themselves, and they certainly fail to incorporate a Black feminist perspective.2 Consequently, the lack of representation of Black women in these historiographies is unable to include Black women’s musical practices as expressions of Black feminist thought and thus, shaping of 1970s American culture. Abstract This article interrogates the ways through which Black women and Black feminist perspectives have been written out of disco’s history. Keywords: article; cultural; culture; disco; feminist; gay; labelle; lawrence; liberation; music; new; shapiro; women; work; york
• Mexican Sonidero Sound System Culture Online: From Dancing on the Streets to Social Media in Times of Covid-19 by Iten, Moses (2021) - Being physically based far away from the main sphere of creative influence on my practice, I have become accustomed to primarily participating with sonidero culture online. There are a handful of texts providing greater insight into sonidero culture, although this research is almost exclusively published in Spanish and written by cronistas (chroniclers) rather than scholars.[2] Keywords: culture; cumbia; mexico; online; sonidera; sonideros; sonido; sound
• Executive Editor's Introduction by St John, Graham (2021) - Community Manager Katrina Loughrey (DE) Art Director Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE) Operations Associate Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Associate Editors Ben Assiter (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Alistair Fraser (Maynooth University, IE) Moses Iten (RMIT, AU) Editor Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Reviews Editor Toby Young (University of Oxford, UK) Operations director Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE) Foreign Languages Editor Moses Iten (RMIT, AU) Managing Editor Tommy Colton Symmes (Rice University, US) Keywords: culture; dancecult; editor; music; university
• Exploring Personal Spectres in Electronic Music by Whitehead, Gareth (2022) - Electronic music artists have been able to explore hauntological themes with less effort for over 30 years because it has been possible to, quite easily, sample music from different historical periods (Sexton 2012: 562). However, as discussed in my original works portfolio, I have proposed an alternative strategy in which electronic music artists might engage with a variety of hauntological vehicles. Keywords: audio; culture; fisher; ghosts; hauntology; music; nostalgia; past; personal; present; process; recording; spectres; themes; time; whitehead; work
• London Dubstep Culture in an Online Discord Community: The Mediation of Bass, Space and Place by Mouraviev, Ivan (2024) - He established a Twitch channel describing the project as a community committed to underground bass music and real dubstep, inviting viewers to participate as DJs and join Real Heads. “This is a community about dubstep music and culture. Keywords: bass; community; culture; discord; djs; dubstep; fruit; heads; internet; london; march; members; music; new; online; radio; sessions; space
• Editor's Introduction and Masthead by St John, Graham (2009) - (US) Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access e- journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). A platform for interdis- ciplinary scholarship on the shifting terrain of EDMCs worldwide, the journal houses research exploring the sites, technologies, sounds and cultures of electronic music in historical and contemporary perspectives. Keywords: adobe; culture; dancecult; editor; edmc; journal; life; music; research; techno; university
• Editor's Introduction and Masthead by St John, Graham (2010) - Anne Petiau ITSRS / Université Paris 5 (France) Hillegonda C Rietveld London South Bank University (UK) Geoff Stahl Victoria University of Wellington (NZ) Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah University of West Indies (Jamaica) Will Straw McGill University (Canada) Rupert Till University of Huddersfield (UK) tobias c. van Veen McGill University (Canada) Michael Veal Yale University (US) Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access e- journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: culture; dancecult; journal; music; rave; university
• The History of Our World: The Hardcore Continuum Debate by Reynolds, Simon (2010) - For in- stance, the role of the MC in hardcore continuum genres was not paralleled in Big Beat, nor was the rewind as derived from Jamaican sound system culture, and as far as I’m aware, dubplates were not part of Big Beat. This relates to the notion I broached above of music history having become spatialized, splayed out like an atemporal smorgasbord. Keywords: beat; big; continuum; culture; hardcore; history; music; new; sound; system
• Sound System Nation: Jamaica by St John, Graham (2010) - I knew of dancehall through passing mediators like Steve Bedlam (Bedlam sound system) and founder of reggae roots sound Negusa Ne- gast, “Bashment” Bish, whose collaborative rig was imported from the UK to Australia for the Earthdream convoyage in 2000. Amid the dry heat and fugue triggered by sleep-interrupted nights in thin-walled campus apartments, I ran a panel on tension and change within electronic dance music cultures called “Uncertain Vibes”. Keywords: author; culture; dancehall; jamaica; john; kingston; music; night; party; photo; sound; system
• Editor's Introduction and Masthead by St John, Graham (2011) - Dancecult Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Issue 2 (1) 2011 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2011 Dancecult Published twice yearly at: International Advisory Board Eliot Bates (University of Maryland, College Park, US), Andy Bennett (Griffith University, AU), Mark J Butler (Northwestern University, US), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), François Gauthier (Université du Québec à Montréal, CA), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Chris Gibson (University of New South Wales, AU), Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London, UK), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Gordon Lynch (Birkbeck University of London, UK), Rene Lysloff (University of California, Riverside, US), Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago, US), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Tony Mitchell (University of Technology Sydney, AU),Karenza Moore (Lancaster University, UK), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (University of Queensland, AU), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), tobias c. van Veen (McGill University, CA), Michael Veal (Yale University, US) Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Reviews Editor Karenza Moore (Lancaster University, UK) Art Director Cato Pulleyblank (Fairy Punk Creative Studio, CA) Production Director Gary Botts Powell (Texas A&M University, US) Production Assistants Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Chicago, US) Ed Montano (RMIT University, AU) Keywords: culture; dancecult; editor; love; music; parade; university
• Hooked on an Affect: Detroit Techno and Dystopian Digital Culture by Pope, Richard (2011) - Similarly, as Detroit techno is now nearing thirty years of age, markers of its identity have been produced and continue to be circulated, though it nevertheless remains the case that there is no recognizable style for Detroit techno fans (whereas one can detect ravers at a glance). Fixated on the Real of dystopian affect, Detroit techno thereby marks a kind of shadow culture for those who do not turn their radar away from the dystopia of the dehistoricized and desubstantialized present and the “future” which is its necessary result. Keywords: affect; art; artists; capitalism; culture; demise; desire; detroit; detroit techno; experience; form; future; music; new; pope; sense; subculture; techno; university
• Party, Love and Profit: The Rhythms of the Love Parade (Interview with Wolfgang Sterneck) by St John, Graham (2010) - Love Parade posters (1994). At one point, I wished that the acid sound pumping straight out of the speakers at a Love Parade party would flow through the streets every day. Keywords: culture; development; event; fuckparade; love parade; music; party; people; scene; sterneck; techno; time
• Headphone–Headset–Jetset: DJ Culture, Mobility and Science Fictions of Listening by Nye, Sean (2011) - These headphone uses lead me to consider the dialectic that has, in fact, existed between DJ culture and headphone culture since the 1920s, when gramophones and the radio first achieved mass-market success (Brewster and Broughton 2000: 22–4). This is indicative of the fact that DJ culture is only partially related to the most dedicated audiophile communities within headphone culture. Keywords: club; context; culture; cyborg; dancecult; detroit; disc; dj culture; djs; ear; edm; electric; figure; headphone culture; headphones; headset; history; jetset; listening; media; music; new; nye; performance; private; radio; sound; stage; war
• Nomads In Sound vol 2 by Gavanas, Anna (2011) - With a background in reggae and rocksteady in his small but well crafted backpack, he traversed the sonic road for over a decade to gather inspiration from genres such as world music, hip hop, jungle, drum ‘n’ bass, techno, rock and even pop. “This track illustrates how music scenes can be a refuge from the intensity and invasiveness of everyday life. Keywords: culture; edm; figure; gavanas; john; music; sound
• Meditations on the Death of Vinyl by Attias, Bernardo Alexander (2011) - Vinyl DJs had been frowned upon by mainstream musical culture until the turntable could be authenticated as a performance instrument in the 1980s (Schloss 2004). While digitization of recorded music separated it from the material conditions of the production of sound, it also opened up possibilities for musical expression that could only be dreamed of by vinyl DJs. Keywords: culture; djs; music; new; record; technologies; technology; vinyl
• Guest Editor’s Introduction: The Exodus of Psytrance? by St John, Graham (2012) - Botond Vitos (Monash University, AU) Operations Assistant Neal Thomas (UNC Chapel Hill, US) Dancecult Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Issue 4(1) 2012 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2012 Dancecult Published twice yearly at http://dj.dancecult.net International Advisory Board Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Eliot Bates (University of Maryland, College Park, US), Andy Bennett (Griffith University, AU), Mark J Butler (Northwestern University, US), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), François Gauthier (Université du Québec à Montréal, CA), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Chris Gibson (University of New South Wales, AU), Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London, UK), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Gordon Lynch (Birkbeck University of London, UK), Rene Lysloff (University of California, Riverside, US), Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago, US), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Tony Mitchell (University of Technology Sydney, AU), Karenza Moore (Lancaster University, UK), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (University of Queensland, AU), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Reviews Editor Karenza Moore (Lancaster University, UK) Art Director Cato Pulleyblank (Fairy Punk Creative Studio, CA) Copyeditors Catherine Baker (University of Southampton, (UK) Jerome Hansen (UK) Sheena Hyndman (York University, CA) Katrina Loughrey (AU) Keywords: culture; dancecult; editor; exodus; music; psytrance; university
• Ethnoforgery and Outsider Afrofuturism by Reddell, Trace (2013) - collision of vernacular Western music with African music” (quoted in Kelly 1995). This media collision marks the moment of Afrofuturism’s emergence as a unique strategy for engaging technologies across media not only to achieve ethico-aesthetic contact with the cultural flux—that is, “the collective assemblages of enunciation” that have the potential to yield “new Universes of reference” (Guattari 1995: 19)—but also as a strategy for new modalities of polyphonic subjectivity: African music underlies practically everything I do—even ambient, since it arose directly out of wanting to see what happened if you ‘unlocked’ the sounds in a piece of music, gave them their freedom, and didn’t tie them all to the same clock. Keywords: african; afrofuturism; american; black; byrne; culture; dery; eno; eshun; ethnological; fiction; future; guattari; hassell; identity; media; multiculturalism; music; new; outsider; science; sound; subjectivity; way; work; world
• Searching for a Cultural Home: Asian American Youth in the EDM Festival Scene by Park, Judy Soojin (2015) - I used the snowball sampling method by first asking my high school and college networks in Southern California and then my interviewees for introductions to Asian American EDM festival participants. Despite rave’s roots in providing a space of belonging and acceptance for marginalized groups, few scholars have focused on nonwhite participants’ negotiations of race or class in either the rave or EDM festival scenes. Keywords: american; asian; belonging; class; culture; edm; edm festival; festival; interviewees; middle; participants; scene; white; whiteness; youth
• Boutiquing at the Raindance Campout: Relational Aesthetics as Festival Technology by Schmidt, Bryan (2015) - The Limits of Relational Aesthetics While intersubjective connections may be intensely meaningful to festival participants, it is crucial to question their durability and political directionality rather than assume their inherent value. Leung’s TEDx Vancouver talk in 2010, entitled “Transformational Festivals and the New Evolutionary Culture”, codified the term around a series of event models, principles, and aesthetics, and helped disseminate it widely amongst festival participants and organizers. Keywords: aesthetics; art; bourriaud; boutique; campout; community; culture; event; festival; leung; music; new; organizers; participants; performance; practices; raindance; self; sound; space
• Dancing Outdoors: DiY Ethics and Democratised Practices of Well-Being on the UK Alternative Festival Circuit by O'Grady, Alice (2015) - To a certain extent, festival events that situate themselves at the more alternative, radical or transformational end of the spectrum have been subject to this very process of incorporation. In festival terms, this translates into events modelling themselves differently to the large-scale, highly commercial festivals such as V, Leeds and Reading, Download and Glastonbury (despite the latter’s status as being largely responsible for giving birth to alternative festival culture in the UK in the early 1970s3). Keywords: alternative; community; culture; dancing; events; experience; festival; free; music; nature; new; outdoors; o’grady; participation; people; space
• Borderlands: Dub Techno’s Hauntological Politics of Acoustic Ecology by Kolioulis, Alessio (2015) - The co-evolution of “humans” and “machines” in Detroit is a fundamental trait of Detroit techno music production. Keywords: dub techno, Detroit techno, dub diaspora, acoustic ecology, post-Fordism, neoliberalism Alessio Kolioulis is a PhD candidate at Paris 8 University and Sapienza University of Rome. Keywords: berlin; burial; city; culture; dancecult; detroit; detroit techno; dub; dub techno; ecology; fisher; future; inch; london; music; new; oswald; politics; production; sound; techno; time; urban; von
• “Chase Sound Boys Out of Earth”: The Aura of Dubplate Specials in Finnish Reggae Sound System Culture by Ramstedt, Kim (2015) - Taking a different perspective, distance can be experienced in the work because, while the listener in Finland is brought closer to the Jamaican setting of the dubplate special, the distance between MPV sound system and their fans increases due to the recording’s exclusivity. While a fan can easily listen to the commercial version of “Chase the Devil” for the full duration of the song, the experience of listening to the dubplate special depends on the programming of MPV sound system and, as Stolzoff notes, dubplates “are rarely played for more than a minute, or only a few seconds” (2000: 207). Keywords: aura; benjamin; chase; culture; devil; dubplate; mpv; performance; recording; reggae; sound; sound system; special; system
• Darkcore: Dub’s Dark Legacy in Drum ‘n’ Bass Culture by Christodoulou, Chris (2015) - The genre is based on a combination of powerful bass sounds and break-beats that are either synthesised or digitally sampled from existing musical recordings, before being accelerated and looped, whereby, the tempos of drum ‘n’ bass bass-lines are typically half those of its break-beats. As 1993 progressed, the more descriptive term “drum ‘n’ bass” was being used alongside jungle to designate jungle tracks that emphasised the drums and bass as the core elements. Keywords: bass; culture; dread; drum; dub; jungle; london; music
• Victims Themselves of a Close Encounter: On the Sensory Language and Bass Fiction of Space Ape (In Memoriam) by van Veen, tobias c. (2015) - I write in memoriam and reverence to Stephen—an inspiring force whom I met but once, but saw perform as Space Ape twice.23 I write in the spirit of the changing same, the spirit Space Ape embraced in his xorcism of the alien within. Victims Themselves of a Close Encounter: On the Sensory Language and Bass Fiction of Space Ape (In Memoriam) Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 7(2): 86–115 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2015 Dancecult http://dj.dancecult.net http://dx.doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2015.07.02.05 Victims Themselves of a Close Encounter: Keywords: alien; atlantic; bass; bass fiction; black; body; close; cthulhu; culture; dread; dub; dubstep; encounter; fiction; hyperdub; imaginary; music; press; sign; sine; space ape; step; van; veen; victims; white; xorcism
• When Club Culture Goes Online: The Case of Boiler Room by Heuguet, Guillaume (2016) - In exchange for their financial support, brands can have their logo displayed on various media associated with Boiler Room events. Moreover, the disused pool “Stattbad Wedding” is a regular venue for Boiler Room events, and certain remarkable staging effects correspond to recurrent choices made by the organization during that phase of their development. Keywords: boiler; boiler room; broadcast; club; club culture; culture; event; live; media; music; online; page; room; video; web
• Lick My Legacy: Are Women-Identified Spaces Still Needed to Nurture Women-Identified DJs? by Hancock, Maren (2017) - As a female DJ who had worked hard to establish a name for herself in Vancouver, I had a personal mission to make things easier for other female DJs and to do my best to destabilize the “boys’ club” of DJ networks that predominated Vancouver DJ culture. This research corroborates other studies of female DJs in the USA (Farrugia 2004, 2012) and Europe (Gavanas and Reitsamer 2013, 2016) that demonstrate how mentors are of acute importance in fostering the careers of female and non-binary DJs. Keywords: clark; club; community; culture; djs; female; lick; music; people; queer; space; trans; vancouver; women

• Sound Systems at the George Floyd Protests in Minneapolis During the Summer of 2020 by Symmes, Tommy Colton (2020) - Prosecute the police!” Memorial Square, 2nd June While decentralized musical protests scatter themselves across the city in confrontations with an institutional web of police authority, the site of George Floyd’s murder has become a memorial to the cause and its martyr. Smaller speakers, megaphones and musical instruments punctuate the throngs of people demonstrating resistance to heternormativity, racism and capitalism, demonstrating support for queer minorities. Keywords: minneapolis; people; police; protests; sound; speakers
• Pop as Process: The Digitalization of Groove, Form and Time by Reuter, Anders (2021) - Digital pop music offers very intricate and particular technology-signifying heterogenous temporalities that are based on a negotiation of the relationship between music and time in ways that are innately digital. This assimilation has arguably found a new home or even realisation in recent iterations of the digital audio workstation (DAW), offering new production practices in pop music production.1 The question then arises: What does the computational shift mean for music’s relationship to time? Keywords: digital; edm; form; groove; hip; human; media; music; new; pop; press; process; processes; production; repetition; rhythm; sound; time; track
• The Production of Space in Chicago Footwork by Laurence, Adam (2021) - Indeed, taking Traxman's and Manny’s word, a picture is built up of the interactions between men and women within footwork spaces. In theorising Chicago footwork as a gendered space, I wish not to confine my argument within a narrative of simply claiming that it either does or does not possess a ‘gendered’ musical assemblage. Keywords: chicago; footwork; gendered; jlin; music; sound; space
• 8-Bit Music on Twitch: How the Chiptune Scene Thrived During the Pandemic by Hermes, Kirsten (2022) - As a tech-savvy breed of musicians that are eager to learn and “tinker”, chiptune artists use streaming technology confidently and enjoy customising the look at sound of their shows online. To investigate the advantages and disadvantages of streaming gigs for chiptune music, I will analyse my own experiences alongside questionnaire responses from six other chiptune artists. Keywords: artists; audience; chiptune; creativity; face; gigs; music; musicians; online; sound; streaming
• Outlook Festival: A Celebration of Sound System Culture by Mouraviev, Ivan (2022) - Musically, while the festival’s early emphasis on UK bass music has remained stable, its period of rapid growth in 2010–13 and beyond has seen many established artists invited as headline acts. Held at the same site in Croatia immediately before or after Outlook, Dimensions can be read as entrepreneurial—why not run a second festival when you’re already importing expensive equipment and occupying the site for weeks?—but it also invites critical analysis of how the boundaries of bass music are negotiated. Keywords: bass; dub; event; festival; music; outlook; sound; stage
• The Power to Name and Other Dilemmas Presented by Brazilian Funk Subgenres by Sovik, Liv; D'Aquino, Brian (2022) - They introduce the article as follows: The proibidão is a subgenre of carioca funk music, together with consciente, putaria, montagem, melody and ostentação. Brazilian funk is a genre-bending phenomenon from the beginning. Keywords: categories; funk; music; october; research; sound; sst; subgenres; youtube
• Noise as a Spectre in Dub Techno by Koçer, Bahadırhan (2024) - The deliberate integration of noise into dub techno tracks emerges as a nuanced artistic choice, marked by an array of noise types that contribute multifarious sonic attributes to each composition. The sequence map illustrates the process of incorporating noise into dub techno tracks. Keywords: dub; dub techno; elements; figure; fisher; genre; hauntology; music; noise; oswald; past; present; production; sound; spectre; techno; track; von
• Kaos, Kilowatt and Ketamine : A Cultural History of the Free Tekno Movement by Giorgia Gaia (2023) - In the period from 1990 to 2005, Italy, my country of origin, emerged as a prominent destination for traveling sound systems coming mostly from the UK and France. In the aftermath of Castlemorton, many members of the Spiral Tribe faced arrest; their vehicles and sound systems were seized. Keywords: credit; figure; free; movement; photo; rave; scene; sound; system; teknival; tekno
• Other Kinds of Mind There: Echologies of Psychedelic Sonic Substance by Reddell, Trace (2023) - The notion of music as cognitive nourishment has of course been a mainstay of psychedelic popular music since Grace Slick exhorted us in 1967 to “feed your head” in the rousing final lines of “White Rabbit”. Putting indigenous shamanic practices in conversation with contemporary neuropsychopharmacology, sound studies and psychedelic music production, this article offers a diagnostic inventory of the effects of the sonic substance. Keywords: album; ambient; april; boards; brabec; canada; dead; echologies; house; human; listening; lotus; media; mind; mori; music; perry; records; reynolds; sonic; sound; space; substance; work; world; youtube
• Off the Record: Turntablism and Controllerism in the 21st Century (Part 2) by van Veen, tobias c.; Attias, Bernardo Alexander (2012) - Off the Record: Turntablism and Controllerism in the 21st Century (Part 2) tobias c. van Veen McGill University Bernardo Alexander Attias California State University Northridge In part two of this conversation concerning the role of technology in DJ performance and electroniculture, scholars and DJs tobias c. van Veen and Bernardo Alexander Attias explore the ways in which various technologies change the means as well as the context of DJ performance. To this end the aesthetic regime of controllerism perhaps owes more to the proliferation of popular videogaming software oriented toward music performance, such as Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and MAGIX Music Maker. Keywords: aesthetic; beatmatching; controllerism; music; performance; point; sound; turntablism; visual
• The Sound Studies Reader (ed. Jonathan Sterne) by Nardi, Carlo (2013) - It will thus be of interest firstly for anyone whose research interests are in such fields as music, sound art, cinema, media (including radio, television, video games and the Internet), linguistics, drama, dance, sound design, architecture, disability, sound storage and reproduction, telecommunications and psychoacoustics, that is, where sound is already a central object of study. Undeniably a qualified figure to pursue this endeavor, Jonathan Sterne is a point of reference for everyone interested in the cultural study of sound, mostly thanks to his groundbreaking book The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (2003), not to mention, among others, his examination of the role of commodification and psychoacoustic models of hearing in the development and success of the MP3 format (2012), his critique of the concept of orality according to writers of the Toronto School (2011) and his investigation of the use of music as a crime prevention tool (1997). Keywords: hearing; music; reader; senses; sound; sterne; studies; study
• Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction (ed. Anne Danielsen) by Alisch, Stefanie (2013) - The discussion of frequency ranges, transients and pitch shifts within certain bass drum sounds shows an increasing trend to deploy bass drums with descending pitch shifts over the last three decades. Danielsen's introduction summarizes key concepts of groove research such as basic pulsation; the synching of different rhythms on a material level or a perception level called entrainment; the idea that an abstract model of a rhythm exists and that each played actualization diverges from the abstract model; and the notion that inter-onset-intervals are the fundamental criteria for perceiving the structure of a rhythm. Keywords: bass; danielsen; groove; rhythm; sound
• MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Jonathan Sterne) by Zuberi, Nabeel (2013) - As Sterne notes—and I can confirm since I happen to be typing this on the first Cassette Store day—older or residual media formats survive; though he also points to the fragility of digital files and hard drives which means that some major currents in MP3 music such as the mashup may not be archived adequately. Sterne is persuasive in his argument that the history of music piracy from radio, to home taping and the Internet in many parts of the world reveals that unsanctioned forms of copying and distribution and their associated activities have often had a symbiotic relationship with sanctioned market practices. Keywords: chapter; media; mp3; music; sound; sterne
• From Grapefruit to Plastic Surgery: Experiments in Contemporary Musique Concrète by Speise, Brian Daniel (2014) - I found interesting sounds when I least suspected them; by carrying my Zoom H4n recorder with me at all times and actively listening for sound, I opened myself up to the possibility of finding useable material. Tea Kettle Organ By this point, I knew that it was possible to create big percussion samples out of found sounds, but I was not sure how feasible it would be to create tonal instruments out of them. Keywords: concrète; music; musique; recording; samples; sound
• Gateway of Sound: Reassessing the Role of Audio Mastering in the Art of Record Production by Nardi, Carlo (2014) - The benefits of this kind of interest can be especially fruitful if we look at the responses of mastering engineers in relation to changes in music formats and technologies as a partial and yet significant snapshot of current transformations of the music industry at large. It goes without saying that, insofar as the aim of mastering is to produce an object that can be used to produce a limitless amount of copies, music formats are of central concern. Keywords: art; audio; engineers; formats; listening; mastering; music; new; practice; production; record; sound; studio; techniques; technology
• Along the Lines of the Roland TB-303: Three Perversions of Acid Techno by Vitos, Botond (2014) - In acid techno this modified bass line (which is very far from the sound of the bass guitar) is used in conjunction with the physically moving grooves of hard techno music, contributing to a kinaesthetic intensity that is often further amplified by drugs. In acid techno the Roland TB-303 bass synthesiser is responsible for the acid sound, the history of which emerged from the creative perversion of technology by certain early producers. Keywords: acid; drugs; melbourne; music; sound; tb-303; techno
• Free Parties and Teknivals: Gift-Exchange and Participation on the Margins of the Market and the State by Petiau, Anne (2015) - Keywords: free party, teknival, gift-exchange, participation, amateur practices, marginality After completing a PhD in sociology on electronic music (“Musiques et musiciens électroniques. Petiau notes that free parties are understood by organizers and attendees to be “free” in both senses of the term—freedom Keywords: donation; exchange; free; gift; music; paris; participants; participation; parties; party; raves; sound; teknivals
• Versions, Dubs and Riddims: Dub and the Transient Dynamics of Jamaican Music by Vendryes, Thomas (2015) - The 1985 success of Sleng Teng concluded the transitional dynamics of Jamaican popular music production that had begun with Redwood’s first version in 1967. In this paper, I explore the modalities and evolution of Jamaican music production and consumption. Keywords: 1970s; 2004; audio; dub; dubs; genre; hitchins; jamaica; king; lee; mixing; music; perry; production; sound; tubby; versions
• Africa on the Moon: The Complexities of an Afrofuturist Reading of Dub by Harries, John Vaughan (2015) - Lee Scratch Perry. Abstract This article attempts a detailed and specific analysis of the music and the mythology of Lee “Scratch” Perry and other key figures and works in dub, in relation to Afrofuturist thought and the music, theory and philosophy of Sun Ra in particular. Keywords: africa; afrofuturism; ark; black; dancecult; dub; history; lee; man; moon; music; new; perry; reggae; scientist; scratch; sense; sound; space; sullivan; sun; world
• “The Only Good System is a Sound System”: The Dub Riddim Revival in Kingston by MacLeod, Erin Christine (2015) - Though dancehall is still Jamaica’s popular music and available on the radio and in the street at pretty much every hour of the day, every Sunday evening you can now pay a visit to Gabre Selassie’s house to hear his Rockers Sound Station sound system at Kingston Dub Club. Behind the bar at Kingston Dub Club. Keywords: dub; jamaica; reggae; sound; system
• Conscious Sounds: Encountering Jah Shaka by Partridge, Christopher (2015) - The purpose of the panel, which also included Jah Shaka and Neil Perch of Zion Train, was to discuss dub reggae and sound system culture in Britain. Although he has been central to British sound system culture since the early 1970s, owns a record label (Jah Shaka Music), and has produced numerous important dub albums, he spoke far less about his music than he did about the importance of being a good member of the human race. Keywords: dub; music; shaka; sound
• Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques and Ways of Knowing (Julian Henriques) by Howard, Dennis (2015) - Sonic Bodies manages to achieve Henriques’ intentions of departing from the established literature and presents a theoretically fresh approach to the study of Jamaican sound system culture. Sonic Bodies manages to elevate the conversation about the Jamaican sound system culture from its usual sociocultural and political orientations to an auditory exploration of sound culture and theory. Keywords: henriques; performance; sound; system
• Introduction to Echoes from the Dub Diaspora by Rietveld, Hillegonda C.; van Veen, tobias c. (2015) - ©2015 Dancecult Published twice yearly at International Advisory Board Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Eliot Bates (University of Birmingham), Andy Bennett (Griffith University, AU), Mark J Butler (Northwestern University, US), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Groningen, NL), François Gauthier (Université de Fribourg, CH), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Chris Gibson (University of New South Wales, AU), Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London, UK), Alice O’Grady, University of Leeds (UK), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Rene Lysloff (University of California, Riverside, US), Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago, US), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Tony Mitchell (University of Technology Sydney, AU), Karenza Moore (Lancaster University, UK), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (Griffith University, AU), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), tobias c. van Veen (Université de Montréal, CA), Michael Veal (Yale University, US Foreign Languages Editor Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Groningen, NL) Production Editor Botond Vitos (DE) Operations director Ed Montano (RMIT University, AU) Keywords: diaspora; dub; music; sound; university; van; veen
• Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound (Salomé Voegelin) by Schnee, Daniel Paul (2016) - This, as Voegelin states, is directly built on Theodor Adorno’s concept of the essay as a formless form of text that “makes no claim of being anything other than an experiment, a suggestion, a provocation maybe, and relies on the fact that as an essay it has no obligation to be all inclusive . . . It is on this phenomenological foundation that author Salomé Voegelin builds Sonic Possible Worlds: Keywords: miếu; music; sound; voegelin; văn
• The DiY Free Party Collective by Payling, Dave (2016) - [3] The same Soundcloud user (Mumbo Jumbo & DiY archive) has many archived and recent mixes form DiY DJs https://soundcloud.com/mumbo-jumbo-2/digs-whoosh-diy-25th-bithday-pt2 They had many releases on their own Strictly for Groovers label, part of DiY discs, and supported and influenced other producers such as Inland Knights, Nail, the Littlemen and many others. Keywords: diy; free; parties; party; sound
• Like so many things I both know and don't know by Busby, Lisa (2017) - The nomadic stance—embodied in embracing outdoor or other unexpected locations, un-staged performances when in more traditional venues, and the decision to restrict ourselves to battery power only. i left my performance area to talk to him i felt torn but equally if this is in part about engaging other people i’m not interested in denying people their own way in, that comfort through dialogue 22/9/14, Gathörnet Västra Strandgatan (a street in town, near the river and some ex-industrial buildings) the night before the temperature dropped suddenly by performance time the wind was high and so weather moved through quickly it felt like I experienced all the weather the city offered on this day i kept taking off and putting on layers, by the end of the day I was huddled under a bridge to shelter from a snow shower 24/9/14, Naturvetarstråket, Ålidhem (a park and playground) this day I really enjoying finding spots to sit quietly and be with the sound I was handling, probably the first time felt in the zone for extended periods of time various children came to see me and examine extensively my equipment and bike cart, climbing trees and on rocks i wondered if I disturbed their playing, and if I had the right to be here 25/9/14, Skulpturparken Aktrisgränd (a sculpture park and open wooded area, near residences) there was a turn today, an oppressive loneliness characterised the performance i had to deal with the sun setting and working in the dark, in a more rural setting, for the first time i was terrified even though I knew I must be safe[4] 28/9/14, Nydalasjön (a lake) the first time it rained and I had no real shelter i dropped a record player in the wet sand, I think the needle’s still okay i wonder about how hard it is to mix for 8 hours, and is contributing to this the fact that in some locations there is no audience but my experience has been more about creating a landscape in response and collaboration with the surroundings, moment to moment can the physical landscape be my audience these zones I am creating—who are they really for? to be honest I wonder if this is a work for me 1/10/14, Grillplatsen mitt i Gimmonässpåren och olika platser i skogen (a forest) this location was far and hard to get to, and I wanted to go into the forest, not sit on the edges i found a hut at the end of the day, and my friend organised a little party of people to camp there with me, to listen to my mix in the final few hours we ate sausages, it was kind of them this was an unsettling location again, particularly in the darkness i don't really understand this uncontrolled reaction, i’m not exactly doing something that puts myself at risk, so it seems melodramatic to feel scared i guess the courage that is part of this self-imposed methodology, manifests somehow in not just the endurance but actually channeling a focus to mix given the conditions, and my own feelings about them it doesn't always work Keywords: busby; female; feminist; music; opting; people; performance; sound; sounding
• A Danceable Shower of Bullets: Sound Morphologies, Concrescence and Neurosis in the Genesis of an EDM Beat by Palombini, Carlos (2019) - The word camarote (usually, a seated compartment in a theatre) designates here approximately semicircular structures above the ground floor that surround the internal walls of spaces where funk carioca dances take place. The eviction of funk dances from clubs to favelas coincides with the passage from volt-mix to tamborzão, and with losses in the upper region of the tessitura. Keywords: attack; bass; beat; bullets; carioca; dances; drum; favelas; funk; line; loop; march; mix; music; palombini; rio; samba; schaeffer; second; snare; sound; tamborzão; volt
• My Practice of Live Performance of Spatial Electronic Dance Music by Lavoie, Sebastien (2019) - The objective when I compose/perform is to feed into what sounds good to me and into different models of musical decision-making such as adding or removing music loops, or by filtering the sonic content of the music. I started to go to nightclubs at the age of 14 years old and I grew up listening to dance music, which at the time (around 1988) coincided with the birth of house music. Keywords: edm; music; performance; sound; spatialisation; studio
• Low End Theory: Bass, Bodies and the Materiality of Sonic Experience (Paul C. Jasen) by Schnee, Daniel Paul (2017) - Thus, not meaning to be definitive, Jasen intends for the book to be an “experiment” (187), its own kind of myth science, a work that “strives instead to engender a mode of thought that draws sound-related scholarship into unfamiliar territory, and help nudge the humanities more broadly towards a greater appreciation of material agencies” (19). As Jasen reveals, bodies of myth science accumulate around unusual vibratory milieus (28), and Sun Ra’s own “tale of becoming”, how he categorized and philosophized about his experiential knowledge, serves as an excellent parergon to Jasen’s own attempt at rigorous speculation on the sound body. Keywords: body; book; jasen; myth; sound

• Hip-Hop Headphones: A Scholar’s Critical Playlist (James B. Peterson) by Cox, James (2017) - Hip-Hop Headphones: A Scholar’s Critical Playlist James B. Peterson New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. By his own admission, James Braxton Peterson is “one of the earlier professors to teach Hip-Hop at the collegiate level”, and Hip-Hop Headphones is a great representation of Peterson’s 20+ years of engagement with hip-hop at this scholarly level. Keywords: book; hip; hop
• Frankenstein Goes to Holocaust: Mostri Sonori, Hyper Mash-up, Audio Espropri (Riccardo Balli) by Magaudda, Paolo (2018) - Recently, his enduring creative efforts have expanded toward book writing, again exploring some of the most unconventional electronic music genres. Two things are, however, clear and plain: first, that Frankenstein goes to Holocaust is a tribute to the culture, practice and aesthetics of plunderphonics and music plagiarism, and a useful and inspiring read for musicians and listeners who fell in love with making music by cutting and pasting sounds produced by other; secondly, that Balli’s book is above all an act of creative writing or, even better, an imaginative attempt to compose a book that is completely dissimilar to any other book about music I have come across. Keywords: balli; book; music
• Explosions in the Mind: Composing Psychedelic Sounds and Visualisations (Jonathan Weinel) by Payling, Dave (2022) - The documentary features various pieces in this tradition such as “Ay Vamos,” “En mi,” and “Obra de Arte,” which can be contrasted with the confrontational style that characterized early Colombian productions such a “Tiradera Pa’l Guru,” a piece first performed in 2003 by a collective of reggaetón artists called Colombian Flow.1 The main theme and source of tension in the film is Balvin’s dilemma: one the one hand he has come to his home city to reconnect with his family, friends and fans, to visit the neighborhood where he grew up, and to perform what he called “the most important concert of his career” in Medellín’s largest venue (a local football stadium). Of course, Balvin and other reggaetón artists are not the first popular musicians to have experienced pressure from their audiences to take political stances at critical junctures. Keywords: artists; balvin; book; community; discourse; fabulousness; gender; house; jóri; medellín; moore; music; people; queer; reggaetón; salkind; university; weinel; work
• Dancefloor-Driven Literature: The Rave Scene in Fiction (Simon A. Morrison) by Young, Toby (2022) - The documentary features various pieces in this tradition such as “Ay Vamos,” “En mi,” and “Obra de Arte,” which can be contrasted with the confrontational style that characterized early Colombian productions such a “Tiradera Pa’l Guru,” a piece first performed in 2003 by a collective of reggaetón artists called Colombian Flow.1 The main theme and source of tension in the film is Balvin’s dilemma: one the one hand he has come to his home city to reconnect with his family, friends and fans, to visit the neighborhood where he grew up, and to perform what he called “the most important concert of his career” in Medellín’s largest venue (a local football stadium). Of course, Balvin and other reggaetón artists are not the first popular musicians to have experienced pressure from their audiences to take political stances at critical junctures. Keywords: artists; balvin; book; community; discourse; fabulousness; gender; house; jóri; medellín; moore; music; people; queer; reggaetón; salkind; university; weinel; work
• The Discourse Community of Electronic Dance Music (Anita Jóri) by Whelan, Andrew (2022) - The documentary features various pieces in this tradition such as “Ay Vamos,” “En mi,” and “Obra de Arte,” which can be contrasted with the confrontational style that characterized early Colombian productions such a “Tiradera Pa’l Guru,” a piece first performed in 2003 by a collective of reggaetón artists called Colombian Flow.1 The main theme and source of tension in the film is Balvin’s dilemma: one the one hand he has come to his home city to reconnect with his family, friends and fans, to visit the neighborhood where he grew up, and to perform what he called “the most important concert of his career” in Medellín’s largest venue (a local football stadium). Of course, Balvin and other reggaetón artists are not the first popular musicians to have experienced pressure from their audiences to take political stances at critical junctures. Keywords: artists; balvin; book; community; discourse; fabulousness; gender; house; jóri; medellín; moore; music; people; queer; reggaetón; salkind; university; weinel; work
• The Boy from Medellín (Dir. Matthew Heineman) by Diaz, Juan Diego; Díaz Pinto, Ana María (2022) - The documentary features various pieces in this tradition such as “Ay Vamos,” “En mi,” and “Obra de Arte,” which can be contrasted with the confrontational style that characterized early Colombian productions such a “Tiradera Pa’l Guru,” a piece first performed in 2003 by a collective of reggaetón artists called Colombian Flow.1 The main theme and source of tension in the film is Balvin’s dilemma: one the one hand he has come to his home city to reconnect with his family, friends and fans, to visit the neighborhood where he grew up, and to perform what he called “the most important concert of his career” in Medellín’s largest venue (a local football stadium). Of course, Balvin and other reggaetón artists are not the first popular musicians to have experienced pressure from their audiences to take political stances at critical junctures. Keywords: artists; balvin; book; community; discourse; fabulousness; gender; house; jóri; medellín; moore; music; people; queer; reggaetón; salkind; university; weinel; work
• Do You Remember House? Chicago’s Queer of Colour Undergrounds (Micah E. Salkind) and Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (Maddison Moore) by Bird, Jacob Mallinson (2022) - The documentary features various pieces in this tradition such as “Ay Vamos,” “En mi,” and “Obra de Arte,” which can be contrasted with the confrontational style that characterized early Colombian productions such a “Tiradera Pa’l Guru,” a piece first performed in 2003 by a collective of reggaetón artists called Colombian Flow.1 The main theme and source of tension in the film is Balvin’s dilemma: one the one hand he has come to his home city to reconnect with his family, friends and fans, to visit the neighborhood where he grew up, and to perform what he called “the most important concert of his career” in Medellín’s largest venue (a local football stadium). Of course, Balvin and other reggaetón artists are not the first popular musicians to have experienced pressure from their audiences to take political stances at critical junctures. Keywords: artists; balvin; book; community; discourse; fabulousness; gender; house; jóri; medellín; moore; music; people; queer; reggaetón; salkind; university; weinel; work
• Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ (Mark Katz) by Forman, Murray (2012) - As he explains, there are a variety of modes within which DJs work (e.g. club or EDM DJs) but not all of these involve hip-hop and not all of them embrace the crucial facets of compositional creativity, battle, and performance that are essential to hip-hop’s DJ practices. Defining his project, Katz writes, “The purpose of this book is to chronicle and investigate the rise of a new type of musician—the DJ—who developed a new musical instrument—the turntable—and in doing so helped create a new type of music: hip-hop” (6). Keywords: book; hip; hop; katz
• The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries (Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton) by Gaule, Scott (2012) - In all respects, this was a defining moment that shaped Moulton’s life in dance music production and as a consequence gifted DJs the format they craved, an extended mix designed specifically for the dance floor. The sampling-like approach coined by Baker on “Planet Rock” prior to the widespread advent and use of sampling technologies illustrates how DJ sensibilities honed on the dance floor have been fed back into the production process, helping to create the sampling cut and paste aesthetic that became so influential with EDM production. Keywords: book; djing; music
• Popular Music: Topics, Trends & Trajectories (Tara Brabazon) by Montano, Ed (2012) - While all of this is nothing new for the scholar of EDM, the attention given to dance music and club culture is an acknowledgement of EDM’s standing in the development of popular music, Brabazon going beyond the rock-centred orientation of much popular music writing. For students of popular music there is no shortage of books, with the field now firmly established in the corridors of academia and interpreted through a body of literature as diverse and as vibrant as the music itself. Keywords: book; brabazon; music
• Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture (Ytasha L. Womack) by van Veen, tobias c. (2013) - This approach would seem to suggest, then, that scholars should not just look for representations of blackness, “specific to the experiences of black people”, but to ways in which blackness has been constructed as a particular “technolology” that Afrofuturism unearths through its alien, android and other post-human identities. These remain avenues of thought that, though hinted at in Afrofuturism, as well as in Post-Black, remain mostly unexplored. Keywords: afrofuturism; black; book; fiction; future; past; womack
• The Digital Musician (Andrew Hugill) by Koszolko, Martin (2014) - Aiming to build up a picture of shared ideas and practices in digital music (258), Hugill has collected qualitative data through interviews with sixteen international musicians with a range of experiences behind them. While there is no shortage of books on many of the topics covered in Hugill's text, The Digital Musician is an important summary of key issues concerning music practitioners using digital technologies. Keywords: book; hugill; music
• Goa: 20 Years of Psychedelic Trance (Tom Rom and Pascal Querner) by Schmidt, Joshua (2015) - In the course of its trajectory, Goa psytrance was gradually engulfed by capitalist economies and underwent a process of commodification and subdivision. This coffee table book, elegantly published and stylishly edited, ventures to capture and convey the romance and excitement that accompanied the expansions of Goa psytrance music and culture in the past few decades. Keywords: book; goa; movement; parties; psytrance
• Brian Eno: Oblique Music (Sean Albiez and David Pattie eds.) by Montano, Ed (2016) - While the authors clearly demonstrate the importance of Eno’s work, they do so by situating it in relevant social and cultural contexts and acknowledging the contributions of the other musicians Eno has constantly surrounded himself with. Achtermann uses Eno’s ambient output to consider how one defines such music, and the extent to which it can be considered as actual music, concluding that Eno’s work, while presented as art, also calls into question the nature of art, encouraging listeners to “reappraise their understanding of music and the uses of music” (103). Keywords: book; eno; music; pattie; production; work
• An Introduction to Music Technology, Second Edition (Dan Hosken) by Koszolko, Martin Kamil (2017) - Hosken argues that principles of music technology should be analysed in the context of practical work, and throughout the text he provides suggested activities, complementing the core content. While a good understanding of the fundamental knowledge related to computer hardware and software is very helpful in troubleshooting of the technical problems as well as the efficient day-to-day work with music technology, the priority in the volume is given to sound-related topics, which is a sensible choice. Keywords: book; music; technology
• Digital Arts: An Introduction to New Media (Cat Hope and John Ryan) by Young, Toby (2017) - Given the spiralling of this book towards a final concluding chapter on hyperrealism in digital art, this movement from mapping to tracing seems to be no coincidence, perhaps presenting a subtle meta-critique of the relationship between the fluid nature of digital arts and the pedagogical need to linearize a field which is still very much a boundary-less network space (pace Latour), perhaps even a vulnerable space loosely encompassing a group of discrete disciplines with shared processes but not necessarily goals. The opening chapter in particular is a stroke of genius in this respect, presenting the context of digital art as a cartography—a brilliant alternative to either the repertoire-based canonic approach taken by Cox and Warner (2004) or the techno-centric focus of Demers (2010). Keywords: art; book; chapter; music

• Spaces to Fail in: Negotiating Gender, Community and Technology in Algorave by Armitage, Joanne Louise (2018) - Dancecult 10(1)36 More than the visibility of role models, the social dimensions of coding workshops and the critical mass of women in the algorave scene though, what many women cited as important was the performative dimensions of algorave as something that was a turning point in terms of their coding and involvement in algorave: Algoraver 1:  We were told that there was an algorave coming up, and anyone who wanted could have a go. Many women working within algorave have full time jobs and responsibilities elsewhere, but several have already conducted workshops for women and non-binary people. Keywords: algorave; code; coding; community; computer; gender; music; performance; practice; scene; technology; women
• “It’s not just a Party, ya know?”: Work and Affective Circuits in LGBTQIA+ Music Collectives in the South of Brazil by Amaral, Adriana; Pereira, Simone Luci; Goulart, Lucas; Cordova, Jonara; Wizniewsky Amaral, João Pedro; Iten, Moses (2025) - A scene or circuit of electronic music parties has been established on city streets and other public spaces, as well as abandoned areas occupying the so-called urban “fractures” (Pereira and Gheirart 2023), giving them renewed meanings. In this sense, collectives and electronic music parties highlight their political dimension, as they underscore dissident identities and bodies in action and make use of public and semi-public spaces in the city. Keywords: affective; alegre; amaral; bodies; brazil; city; coletivo; collective; identities; individuals; music; music scene; parties; party; people; porto; production; rio; scene; spaces; trans; university
• The DIY Careers of Techno and Drum ‘n’ Bass DJs in Vienna by Reitsamer, Rosa (2011) - The above study of the experiences of cultural producers such as electronic music DJs has shown that the distinctions between the subfield of restricted cultural production and the subfield of mass production that Bourdieu drew according to the opposition between art and money do not hold for electronic dance music scenes. The fees for techno DJs range from €300 for performances in Austria to up to €5,000—and in rare cases, more—for appearances in other European cities. Keywords: bass; bourdieu; capital; careers; club; diy; djs; drum; music; nights; production; scene; self; techno; vienna
• ”War on the Dancefloor”: The Reproduction of Power and Pleasure at the Amphi Festival in Cologne by Paulsson, Johanna (2011) - Till explores whether functions formerly served within society by religions are now being addressed by cults of popular music and observes that a feature common to electronic dance music culture “is its separation from mainstream culture. Referring to the writings of Michel Foucault, who argued that modern western society is “a giant prison, where every structure and institution is there to tame and discipline us”, cultural philosopher Paul Hegarty describes industrial music as “a Foucauldian take on power” (2007: 119–20). Keywords: festival; harris; industrial; music; nachtmahr; people; power; rainer; scene; war
• “What are we doing here?” Nostalgic Desires for a Cosmopolitan Sensory Aesthetic in the Amsterdam-based Psytrance Scene by van Straaten, Eva-Maria Alexandra (2012) - This article critically explores how, in the context of the perceived decline of this aesthetic in the scene, nostalgic narratives about psytrance parties of the past fuel a desire for the return of the cosmopolitan psytrance party. Websites such as and provide narratives and images of psytrance parties organized in Amsterdam, as well as similar parties held at often unspecified locations elsewhere on the planet. Keywords: aesthetic; amsterdam; cosmopolitan; dan; dat; desire; die; een; experience; gewoon; goa; het; interview; maar; music; ook; participants; parties; party; past; psytrance; psytrance party; scene; sounds; van; world
• Focused Ethnography as Research Method: A Case Study of Techno Music Producers in Home-Recording Studios by Kühn, Jan Michael (2013) - From this and my choice of empirical research field, I derived my research question (“How do new things arise in the production of electronic dance music in home-recording studios?”) and situated my fieldwork plan as an exploratory form of workplace study (Knoblauch/Heath 2006) and “technography” (Rammert/Schubert 2006). Introduction In this article, I would like to present the method of focused ethnography (FE) through the example of my current research on techno music producers working in home-recording studios. Keywords: ethnography; field; knoblauch; knowledge; music; producers; production; recording; research; scene; sector; techno
• Electronic Awakening (Dir. Andrew Johner) by Sheridan, Garth (2013) - Through the interweaving of footage filmed at festivals and interviews, outdoor parties are presented as religious gatherings. Indeed, the film has been screening at outdoor parties and chill out spaces globally to great response since 2011. Keywords: festival; parties; scene
• Techno Studies: Ästhetik und Geschichte Elektronischer Tanzmusik (Kim Feser and Matthias Pasdzierny eds.) by Kaul, Timor (2017) - In Techno Studies, he writes three short essays concerning the practical and epistemological problems of writing reviews of techno tracks. As a consequence of the methodological difficulties involved in analysing techno tracks, she suggests a combination of traditional and new methods including participant observation, and descriptions of sounds and aural textures. Keywords: berlin; chapter; music; scene; studies; techno

• We call it Swedish Techno by Ostrom, Anna (2011) - The media's portrayal of techno clubs as drug liberal was all that was needed for the public and the authorities to support the police to close as many techno clubs as possible. By the end of the 1990s, the number of techno clubs in Stockholm had been reduced drastically, with venue owners categorically turning techno club promoters down in favour of clubs playing other kinds of music. Keywords: club; djs; male; music; svaj; swedish; techno
• Techno Intersections: An Aural Account of Research in Edinburgh by Gadir, Tami (2013) - In the piece, I reflect upon some of my doctoral research experiences of participant observation in Edinburgh techno club nights. The first intersection depicts the habitual patterns of my attendance at techno club nights, and introduces the possibility that these patterns can be perceived as problematic for research. Keywords: audio; club; edinburgh; night; people; research; techno

• Technique, Experience and the Social Function of Techno Music: A Comparative Analysis of Theodor Adorno and Robert Fink by Pascual, Luciano (2022) - Keywords: techno music; aesthetics; social function; experience Luciano Pascual is a PhD candidate in Arts at the National University of Córdoba in Argentina and a doctoral fellow at CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas). In the first one, we deal with reflections on the social function that can be traced in the production of techno music. Keywords: adorno; desire; experience; fink; function; music; technique; techno; techno music; tension; time
• Detroit Ecstasy: Ruminations on Raving, "Movement" and Place by Farrugia, Rebekah (2023) - This was the moment when Detroit techno arrived. Detroit techno had been evolving for nearly two decades by this point, but McCollum’s reporting plays into the appeal of the party, that when one enters its physical and sonic space, everyday life is left behind and new experiences materialize. Keywords: city; detroit; festival; music; new; people; place; press; techno; time
• Playing by the Rules? : Genre Conventions in Contemporary DJ Performance by Moriaty, Manoli; Kehagia, Nina (2025) - Keywords: DJ performance, digital technology, genre and practice, club culture, mixed methods Manoli Moriaty is a music producer, performer and scholar. Hip-hop DJs’ role in legitimising DJ performance cannot be understated, as the exaggerated gesturality of early scratch DJs made technical skill visible in ways comparable to that of traditional instrumentalists (Katz 2012). Keywords: audience; bass; conventions; djing; djs; drum; genre; house; music; people; performance; playing; question; set; survey; techno; technology
• Where is Duisburg? An LP Postscript by Nye, Sean; Hitzler, Ronald (2011) - To top it off, a major player in Dortmund city politics, Ullrich Sierau, who was elected mayor of Dortmund just a year later, counted from his helicopter roughly the same number as was concluded by Dortmund police: the Love Parade in Dortmund had 1.6 million participants and had thereby achieved the all-time record for Love Parade participants. With a 21-year long history that ended in the deaths of 21 people and the injuring of hundreds more at the 2010 Love Parade, a shadow has been cast across the Love Parade's legacy. Keywords: berlin; cities; city; cultural; duisburg; event; february; germany; love parade; media; music; region; ruhr; ruhr valley; techno; year
• Vessels of Transfer: Allegories of Afrofuturism in Jeff Mills and Janelle Monáe by van Veen, tobias c. (2013) - A pervasive futurity-to-come propels Jeff Mills and techno music, as well as electronic music’s futurology in general—the latter unfortunately absent from Gilroy’s repertoire of Afrofuturology. The alien and offworld nexus of techno music doesn’t “represent” Earthly concerns, geographies, or identities in the way that gangsta’ hip-hop or West coast g-funk articulates—in a double-movement of critique and fetishization, celebration and mourning—the violence of impoverishment, the confines of ghettoization, or the anger and frustration of structural unemployment and systemic discrimination.24 This is not to say that Afrofuturist music—including its hip-hop—turns a blind eye to earthly conditions. Keywords: african; afrofuturism; alien; allegory; android; black; blackness; eshun; fiction; future; gilroy; history; human; jeff; mills; monáe; music; new; past; science; star; sun; techno; time; van; veen

• An Interactive Algorithmic Music System for EDM by Savery, Richard James (2018) - Artiin was created to explore how continuing developments in music generation, interactive music systems and music information retrieval can be applied to an EDM system. The “listen to” options allow the user to choose up to three incoming streams of either audio or MIDI, including other Artiin instruments. Keywords: artiin; audio; drum; edm; ideas; input; level; midi; music; note; system; time; user
• Rogue Two: Reflections on the Creative and Technological Development of the Audiovisual Duo—The Rebel Scum by Smith, Ryan Ross; Lawson, Shawn (2018) - Still, however insignificant this conceptual basis might be, it is worth noting the in-between space of VJing and live cinema: A third, and lesser-known type of audiovisual performance practice operates within a performing arts context while also drawing from conceptual, performance art, and new media art practices. The first performance set we created, if it can be called that, was hastily thrown together for an evening of audiovisual performances held at the Electronic Media Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, NY in April, 2014. Keywords: appiosc; audio; code; codenobi; coding; collins; edm; force; lawson; live; music; new; performance; smith; text; tidalcycles; time; visuals; wan; wookie
• Cyclic Patterns of Movement across Weaving, Epiplokē and Live Coding by McLean, Alex; Fanfani, Giovanni; Harlizius-Klück, Ellen (2018) - ⏑ - - ⏑ ⏑ - - ⏑ ⏑ - ⏑ - ⏑ - - ⏑ ⏑ - ⏑ - ⏑ - - ⏑ ⏑ - ⏑ - ⏑ - - ⏑ ⏑ - ⏑ - - τόδε δ᾽ αὖ θαῦμά μ᾽ ἔχει, πῶς ποτε πῶς ποτ᾽ ἀμφιπλή- κτων ῥοθίων μόνος κλύων, πῶς ἄρα πανδάκρυτον οὕ- τω βιοτὰν κατέσχεν ⏑ ⏑ - - ⏑ ⏑ - - ⏑ ⏑ - ⏑ - ⏑ - - ⏑ ⏑ - ⏑ - ⏑ - - ⏑ ⏑ - ⏑ - ⏑ - - ⏑ ⏑ - ⏑ - - The mechanism of epiplokē encourages us to see these sequences as a cycle of interwoven ionic- choriambic dimeters rather than as segmented cola, with rhythmical ambiguity as a meaningful part of the poetic design: -⏑⏑-×-⏑--|⏑⏑-×-⏑-⸣-⸤⏑⏑-×-⏑--|⏑⏑-×--. A further application of epiplokē takes place within the structure of a single verse where rhythmical shifts are mediated by modulating sequences common to both metrical types (often ⏑ -). The epiplokē of choriambic and ionic (also contemplated by the ancient doctrine), acting in the context of strophic responsion, should be seen as a continuous rhythmical cycle with interweaving demarcations and encompassing both the metra (⸣-⸤⏑⏑-×-⏑-⸣-⸤⏑⏑-×-⏑-⸣-⸤⏑⏑-⏑--), rather than being disambiguated as featuring either one or the other meter. Keywords: -×- ⏑; coding; cycle; cyclic; epiplokē; fanfani; greek; harlizius; klück; lyric; mclean; movement; music; patterns; poetry; programming; sequences; structure; tidal; time; weaving; ⏑ -×-; ⏑ ⏑
• Good Vibes Friday: Reflections on Livestreaming During the COVID-19 Lockdown by Warren, Sam (2020) - I had already seen this response to deep house/ techno DJ Mr. C's Facebook offer of one-to-one DJ lessons via Zoom for $100, plus a similar reaction to another DJ’s offer to provide detailed feedback on bedroom producers' tracks for £30 a time. The backlash demonstrates an assumption that DJs are well paid, something that is not true for the vast majority of those who work in the industry. Keywords: august; djs; music; set; stream; time; vibes; women
• Unveiling the Secret: The Roots of Trance by Mothersole, Dave (2012) - The story of how Goa became a magnet for freaks the world over, can be seen in the excellent Facebook documentary, Goa Hippy Tribe. It’s unclear exactly who set up the first electronic music parties in Goa—some credit a character called Dr Bobby (father of Tiga)—but it is known that many of the new arrivals would frequent clubs in Ibiza, London, Berlin, Rimini and Riccione when they returned to Europe for the summer. Keywords: beach; goa; laurent; music; parties; party; people; time
• What to Ask Women Composers: Feminist Fieldwork in Electronic Dance Music by Olszanowski, Magdalena (2012) - 7Olszanowski | What To Ask Women Composers Gendered Subjectivities: The Thorny Issue One of my hopes for the documentary is that other women will see it, be inspired by these women’s output like I was and pursue producing electronic music. They all mentioned that they should be more pro-active in not just establishing but maintaining their relationships with other women. Keywords: artists; composers; dancecult; documentary; edm; female; feminist; gender; interview; london; method; music; questions; research; time; women; work
• The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology by Fisher, Mark (2013) - The kind of figure capable of exhibiting and expressing such longing belongs to a paradigmatically modernist moment—think, for instance, of Proust’s and Joyce’s ingenious exercises in recovering lost time. He does not mean psychological nostalgia—indeed, the nostalgia mode as Jameson theorises it might preclude psychological nostalgia, since it arises only when a coherent sense of historical time breaks down. Keywords: axe; crackle; future; ghosts; hauntology; history; london; metaphysics; music; past; presence; time; tricky; voice
• Onwards and Upwards: Playing My Way Through the Gender Division by Bentley, Donna Cynthia (2017) - I always found it interesting, the concept of being at work and the need to deflect advances (almost like going to your job and people assuming that maybe you were only there because you wanted to get “on the job”). The positive feedback from people who enjoyed what I did was enough to keep me going forwards. Keywords: decks; people; records; time
• Why would I want to put my art in your museum if I have my own house? An Interview with Rucyl by Olszanowski, Magdalena (2017) - “Teri Thornton is Dead at 65; Jazz Singer Had Hits in 1960s”. She received her Masters from the Interactive Communication Program at NYU, which alongside mentor, unsung jazz vocalist, Teri Thornton, provided her with resources and time to hone her craft and branch out fully into electronic music using blues and jazz vocal improvisation in electronic composition. Keywords: art; money; music; people; rucyl; things; time; way

• An Interview with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge by Kneschke, Tristan Rodin (2019) - They said I'm strong, that I'm amazingly fit in other ways for my age. Then there's applying William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin's cut-up techniques in their extreme pandrogyne project (NPR 2014), a melding of bodies with P-Orridge’s late partner Lady Jaye, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars of plastic surgery. Keywords: body; gbp; genesis; jaye; orridge; people
• The Studio as Contemporary Autonomous Zone: Crisis and Creativity in Electronic Music by Chambers, Paul (2020) - Sharing some parallels with Cooper’s conception Everyday Utopias, the city’s sonic socialities and music studios could be viewed as networks and spaces that offered the chance to perform everyday life in a different fashion, creating change by building new forms of experiencing the world (2014: 227). The stories of dedication, invention and becoming through music practice, I argue, were suggestive of Stirnerian strategies of self-construction. Keywords: age; autonomous; contemporary; expression; life; music; people; personal; practice; research; self; sense; space; stirner; studio; work; zone
• Transformation Through Connection? Insights From a Pilot Study of Story Sharing Cubes at Burning Man Events by Toomistu, Terje; Heikkilä, Jukka-Pekka (2020) - Story Sharing Cubes at Burning Man Events Since its inception with a handful of participants in San Francisco in 1986, Burning Man has grown into an annual gathering of 80,000 participants in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert (see St John 2018), and evolved into a worldwide network of regional events, such as The Borderland. Encountering these cubes in Black Rock City (BRC) 2019 and Burning Man regional events, The Borderland 2019 in Denmark, and Burning Bär 2020 in Berlin, participants who opened the box, found simple instructions along with the consent request to participate in the research, and a single button. Keywords: connection; events; people; research; sharing; stories; story
• Finding Shelter: Recollections of Shanghai’s Underground Music Scene in the 2010s by Jiang, Tianyu (2024) - For me, one thing that was cool about Shelter is that it had more of a mix of expats and locals than most places that were doing underground music at that time. Finding Shelter: Recollections of Shanghai’s Underground Music Scene in the 2010s Tianyu Jiang University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Austria) The Shelter was an underground club in Shanghai which, during its 9 years of operation from 2007 to 2016, transformed Shanghai’s underground electronic music scene.[1] Keywords: music; people; place; shanghai; shelter
• Pathological Crowds: Affect and Danger in Responses to the Love Parade Disaster at Duisburg by Garcia, Luis-Manuel (2011) - This essay reviews this recent discourse and traces it back to earlier theories of crowd psychology as well as current debates about crowds. Out-of-control affect (feelings, emotions) is a key concern for theorists of crowds, often serving dual-duty as both the cause and effect of crowd behavior. Keywords: affect; crowds; duisburg; event; love; parade; people; psychology
• Folk Music and Commercialization in Danubian Trances and Boheme by Lange, Barbara Rose (2015) - For my Hungarian acquaintances and friends who participate in electronic dance music culture, local folk music has a miniscule role, although folk music has such prominence in the country that it nonetheless appears in unexpected ways. During the communist period in the 1970s and 1980s, Claude Flagel had been a strong advocate of Hungarian folk music, managing to visit Hungary, record music and arrange tours and record releases for Hungarian folk groups in Belgium and France. Keywords: album; boheme; budapest; copyright; cserepes; danubian; european; folk; folk music; forest; hungarian; hungary; károly; music; people; romani; rostás; samples; sebestyén; song; trances

• Executive Editor's Introduction by St John, Graham (2022) - Production Editor Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE) From the floor Editor Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Reviews Editor Toby Young (University of Oxford, UK) Operations director Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE) Foreign Languages Editor Moses Iten (RMIT, AU) Managing Editor Tommy Colton Symmes (Rice University, US) Community Manager Katrina Loughrey (DE) Art Director Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE) Operations Associate Dave Payling (Staffordshire University, UK) Associate Editors Ben Assiter (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Alistair Fraser (Maynooth University, IE) Moses Iten (RMIT, AU) , Botond Vitos (Leuphana University, DE), Toby Young (University of Oxford, UK) Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). Keywords: dancecult; editor; issue; music; university
• Executive Editor's Introduction by St John, Graham (2013) - Dancecult Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Issue 5(1) 2013 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2013 Dancecult Published twice yearly at http://dj.dancecult.net International Advisory Board Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Eliot Bates (University of Maryland, College Park, US), Andy Bennett (Griffith University, AU), Mark J Butler (Northwestern University, US), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), Luis-Manuel Garcia, University of Chicago (DE), François Gauthier (Université du Québec à Montréal, CA), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Chris Gibson (University of New South Wales, AU), Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London, UK), Alice O’Grady, University of Leeds (UK), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Gordon Lynch (Birkbeck University of London, UK), Rene Lysloff (University of California, Riverside, US), Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago, US), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Tony Mitchell (University of Technology Sydney, AU), Karenza Moore (Lancaster University, UK), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (Griffith University, AU), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), tobias c. van Veen (McGill University, CA), Michael Veal (Yale University, US), Andrew Whelan (University of Wollongong, Australia) Dancecult 5(1) 2013: Executive Editor's Introduction, Masthead and Table of Contents Volume 5 Number 1 2013 Doing Nightlife and EDMC Fieldwork Edited by Luis-Manuel Garcia Executive Editor Graham St John (Griffith University, AU) Keywords: dancecult; editor; garcia; luis; production; university

• Teaching Live Coding of Electronic Dance Music: A Case Study by Cheng, Lee (2018) - This paper presents a case study of teaching undergraduate students the skill of live coding EDM in an elective course. Live coding has often been associated with contemporary musical styles such as electronic dance music (EDM), which favors the design of rhythms through algorithms and does not require extensive musicianship training. Keywords: coding; edm; learning; music; participants; programming; students; teaching
• A Laptop and Some Talent: We Are Your Friends, the EDM Pop DJ and the Gig Economy by Dwyer, Rosie (2025) - Accordingly, a staple of gig economy opportunities is that they require little training even as they promise big rewards. Of course, DJs have always worked for themselves and made money from gigs. Keywords: economy; edm; gig; pop; wayf
• Competitive Remix Practice and Networks of Support in Electronic Dance Music Economies by Karpetz, Jonathan (2014) - While performance-based competitions such as Battle of the Bands, Star Search and American Idol are not new, the contemporary mode of DJ contests, which include local contests and web-based remix contests, have produced and reflected a new form of work that asks DJs and producers to continually “labour to compete”. If claims about contemporary DJ contests seem vague, I hope that my situation within current DJ networks will develop productive knowledge of the issues at hand to lend voice to those most affected in hopes of an eventual escape from labour precarity.7 Karpetz | Competitive Remix Practice and Networks of Support 25 Contemporary DJ and Producer Labour The engagement of DJs and producers on social media fueled competition platforms has grown out of the many crises creatives in EDM networks have had to confront in their everyday practice. Keywords: afrojack; beatport; competition; contemporary; contest; djs; edm; labour; media; music; networks; new; platforms; practice; producers; remix; support
• Popular Music Fandom: Identities, Roles and Practices (Mark Duffett ed.) by O'Regan, Jadey (2014) - The study of music fandom is a relatively new area of academic interest within the wider field of popular music studies. Twenty-two years later, Popular Music Fandom offers a new collection of fan perspectives on music from the 1950s to the 2000s that also touch on new technologies (such as the internet and social media) which now play a significant role in shaping music fandom. Keywords: edm; fandom; music; studies

• No Way Back by Lhooq, Michelle (2023) - In the late’90s, a media-fueled moral panic over ecstasy use had resulted in a nationwide crackdown on rave culture—and Detroit “clamped down hard”, according to a Red Bull Music Academy’s report, “Breaking up parties, writing tickets and occasionally even brutalizing ravers” (Glazer 2014). “I was sick of going to parties and seeing the DJs right in front of a pool table, and looking at my reflection in a Coors sign. Keywords: detroit; music; party; rave; way
• Towards a Granular Study of Scenes at Vancouver's New Forms Festival by van Veen, tobias c. (2014) - A techno-turntablist and practitioner of interventionist media arts since 1993, tobias is also creative director of the IOSOUND.ca music label and resident DJ of Ion Storm podcast at djtobias.com. Unconventional spaces such as The Butchershop, Open Studios, and Memelab, featuring organisational efforts of renegade media arts curators such as Jesse Scott, ssiess, and olo j. milkman—among others whom I apologise for not mentioning here—but also soon-to-be-closed media arts venues The Blinding Light and the beloved Sugar Refinery, were integral to developing mixed-media aesthetics outside of the constraints of both club culture and gallery settings. Keywords: arts; events; festival; media; music; rave; vancouver

• Augmented Creativity: Using AI Collaborators to Make a Music Video by Hermes, Kirsten (2025) - By separating the creative process into distinct stages, AI creativity can be studied in a more nuanced way. AI creativity is typically evaluated based on the output (Ritchie 2007: 69). Keywords: artist; creativity; generative; hermes; human; image; intelligence; kirsten; music; new; outputs; practice; process; research; tools; university; video; work
• Interrupting Flow: Researching Play, Performance and Immersion in Festival Scenes by O'Grady, Alice (2013) - As Kershaw and Nicholson point out, in performance research it is common for relationships between the researcher and the researched to be “fluid, improvised and responsive” (2011: 2). To take this into account, there has been a surge of creative approaches to research practices that challenge conventional research imperatives. Keywords: context; edinburgh; experience; festival; flow; kershaw; knowledge; methods; new; performance; play; practice; press; processes; research; space; university; work

• The Art of Record Production: An Introductory Reader for a New Academic Field (eds. Simon Frith and Simon Zagorski-Thomas) by O'Grady, Pat (2013) - The final chapter, “Recording the Revolution: 50 Years of Music Studios in Revolutionary Cuba”, by Jan Fairley and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, offers a contrasting non-Western perspective on recording practice, providing cultural considerations for recording practices in recording studios in Cuba. She considers this through the context of the work of Brian Wilson, a pioneer in the confluence of recording practices and composition in popular music. Keywords: chapter; production; record; recording

• Astronauts, Psychonauts and Electronauts by St John, Graham (2014) - Uniquely exposed to Earth from space, Mitchell, who later founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences, recalls: “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it”. The work is a rendering of Ed White, the first American to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission on 3 June 1965. Keywords: apollo; astronaut; earth; journey; llwydd; mission; space

• From Spontinuity to Dream Seeds: My Journey with Lightshows from the Sixties to the Present by Taylor, C Scott (2023) - I used my fingers to “bend the light”, shaping, melting, morphing images that I could control with great precision. I copied images where I could find them, and took many, many hundreds of slides of my own. Keywords: boulder; endor; experience; figure; images; lightshow; liquids; new; projector; slides
• Describing Experience: Working Actively with Fieldnote Genres in Anthropological Fieldwork by Mikkelsen, Lars Nørr (2013) - Whereas realist fieldnotes try to avoid interpretation, poetic fieldnotes explicitly interpret experience while also inviting further interpretation on the part of the reader. In general, the poetic genre is employed less frequently in ethnographic fieldnotes, but it nonetheless did appear regularly in the notes of almost all of the researchers in our team. Keywords: experience; fieldnotes; fieldwork; project; research; university; use; writing
• The Varieties of Ecstasy Experience (Sean Leneghan) by Schnee, Daniel (2014) - Indeed, Leneghan states that the two aesthetic reports of ecstasy experience contained in the book are an example of the user's imagination augmenting what sense perception takes as given in the empirical world (115). The thesis examines narratives by ecstasy users concerning its effects and role in their participation in Sydney, Australia's underground club culture. Keywords: ecstasy; experience; leneghan; world

• Tribal Revival: West Coast Festival Culture (Kyer Wiltshire and Erik Davis) by van Veen, tobias c. (2012) - With Tribal Revival, something of this archival mission has succeeded, with 200 pages of colour photography documenting several years of festival culture and expression from the West Coast, circa 2002 through 2009. The same can be said for documentation of similar festivals up and down the left coast, from Shambhala in BC to Faerie Worlds in Oregon and Harmony Festival in Northern California. Keywords: davis; festival; fire; wiltshire
• The First Four Years of Bangface Weekender: an Overview by Turner, Eric (2012) - Most Bangface Weekender ravers have at least one good story about getting lost and running in circles to find one’s chalet! Bangface Weekender 2010 had a “Juracid Park” theme to mark “the 65 millionth anniversary of the extinction of the dinosaurs” (Bangface 2012c). Keywords: bangface; chalet; festival; party; ravers; weekender
• Mapping a Lineage of Female Event Producers Living in British Columbia by Rebbetoy, Jennifer (2017) - Mapping a Lineage of Female Event Producers Living in British Columbia Jennifer Rebbetoy Independent Researcher The raver experience at festivals is well documented in popular media, such as VICE. Since all of them are at different stages of their careers I began to see their connections across festivals as a lineage, each indirectly setting the stage for the next. Keywords: andrea; bass; coast; corrine; festival; music; smf; stage
• Fear in the Festival Field: Threat, Apprehension and Apathy by Motl, Kaitlyne A (2017) - Although participant safety is paramount, researcher perceptions and experiences of threat cannot be ignored—especially when study participants compromise researcher safety, as well as the projects they undertake. Doing so destigmatizes researcher risk, fostering proactive measures that realistically recognizes the varied experiences and severity of unsafety that scholars face within fieldwork settings and prepares them with skills they may need to abate these threats. Keywords: edmc; festival; field; participants; research; researchers; women

• Girl (dir. Kandeyce Jorden) by Hancock, Maren (2018) - Filmmaker, visual artist and actor Kandeyce Jorden notes that it was an enthusiasm for dance music and culture that inspired her to direct this film. Each DJ is interviewed separately, and each addresses one or more of the now-familiar themes identified in the growing body of work on gender and DJ culture (Rogers 2010; Farrugia 2012; Gavanas & Reitsamer 2013, 2016; Gadir 2017), albeit from primarily white, cis-gendered and correspondingly hegemonic perspectives; in the film, Jorden profiles one racialized DJ (Lady D) and one openly queer DJ (Irene). Keywords: collins; djs; film; jorden
• Off the Record: Turntablism and Controllerism in the 21st Century, Part 1 by van Veen, tobias c.; Attias, Bernardo Alexander (2011) - Now admittedly I'm making arguments based on technologies and techniques that are not in widespread use—there are a few people using sync as I described but it's not common practice among digital DJs by any means, and I'm suggesting software plugins that don't even exist yet for DJ software. This annoys the crap out of other DJs but more often than not the majority of the audience couldn’t care less. Keywords: beatmatching; computer; djs; mix; music; point; risk; software; sync; vinyl
• Investigating the Value of DJ Performance for Contemporary Music Education and Sensorimotor Synchronisation (SMS) Abilities by MacCutcheon, Douglas; Greasley, Alinka E.; Elliott, Mark T (2016) - Conclusion The aim of this research was to establish the skills learned through DJing and to map perspectives on the potential value of DJing for music education from a variety of people involved in music performance and education. Supporting Repp’s findings, the effects of phase attraction were also evident in all populations in this study, however, a key finding is that DJ participants were least variable of all the groups when faced with large phase-distractor offsets that increased variability in the other two groups, an advantage that may be due to regular beatmatching of two unsynchronised tracks during the mixing process. Keywords: distractor; djing; djs; education; group; learning; mean; metronome; music; music education; musicians; non; participants; performance; phase; repp; research; skills; synchronization; target; value
• Os DJs da Perifa: Música Eletrônica, Trajetórias e Mediações Culturais em São Paulo (Ivan Paolo de Paris Fontanari) by Palombini, Carlos (2016) - Fontanari narrates how he built up the character of the ethnographer so as to become another—rather than the other—and thus conveniently circulate among periphery DJs and partygoers; among residents of the working-class neighbourhoods where periphery DJs and partygoers lived; among people in the unmarked territories periphery DJs and partygoers named the centre; and to cross these boundaries without attracting hostility or unwanted attention. He explains: “For this reason, the most valued performances were those by periphery DJs who had followed the longest trajectories, individualizing and personalizing themselves to the utmost degree in relation to the periphery audience” (112). Keywords: bass; djs; drum; music; periphery

• Digital Cumbia: Tradition and Postmodernity by Iten, Moses; Marquez, Israel (2022) - But the new phase represented by digital cumbia, given its newness, has received very little academic attention and practically no studies documenting and critically explaining the phenomenon, with only a few exceptions.7 Most of the existing sources of information come from interviews, news and reports published in the media in different parts of the world, in which digital cumbia has been presented as one of the most original and innovative musical propositions to have emerged in the Americas in recent years. Tradition and Postmodernity 63 Side A: Digital Cumbia in Buenos Aires Curiously, the phenomenon of digital cumbia does not have its origins in Colombia, the cradle of cumbia. Keywords: aires; american; bass; buenos; cumbia; dengue; digital; digital cumbia; electronic; genre; label; latin; music; new; parties; sounds; zizek
• Death of/in British Drum 'n' Bass Music by Fraser, Alistair (2019) - Within two days of the news breaking, MC DRS and Luke LSB released a track called “Angels Fall” (DRS and LSB 2017) originally on bandcamp.com and announced that all proceeds would be used to help pay for funeral costs for Marcus’ family: We are still very much mourning the sad and sudden passing of our beloved friend Marcus Kaye, known to many as Marcus Intalex or Trevino. Rest in peace Marcus Intalex. Keywords: bass; drum; marcus; music

• Travellers and Sound System Protest: Matthew Smith’s Visual Commentary by Payling, Dave (2019) - Travellers and Sound System Protest: Matthew Smith’s Visual Commentary Dave Payling Staffordshire University (UK) Protest and resistance have been an integral part of the UK underground dance music culture since its emergence at the end of the 1980s. This relationship has been documented by Matthew Smith, who began photographing the events and people involved while studying his undergraduate degree in Stoke-on-Trent, the home of Shelley’s Laserdome and other dance clubs. Keywords: credit; london; march; matthew; photo; smith
• Reflections from the Frontlines of Grassroots Venue Design by Ella (2024) - Spatial Bureaucracy in the context of neoliberal crisis In Britain, grassroots music venues are being eradicated by a set of interlocked hostilities: the covid-19 pandemic, speculative residential development, increased business rates and 13 years of austerity among them (O'Connor 2023). Arguably, the co-dependence between architecture and real-estate positions the architect as an antagonist to the propagation of grassroots venues in British cities. Keywords: building; community; design; grassroots; london; music; operators; planning; use; venues

• Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Graham St John) by van Veen, tobias c. (2014) - St John challenges readings that would see psyculture as but a consumerist, nihilist or hedonist practice, and dismisses moralising tendencies that mask as critical scholarship. Yet, neither Lava 303 nor St John address that such misogyny is faced by not only white women, but all women, and overwhelmingly by women of colour. Keywords: global; goa; john; psyculture; saldanha; st john; traveller; white

• Big Fun in the Big Town (Dir. Bram van Splunteren) by Kirby, Philip Ronald (2012) - Then the film takes the viewer to Queens to L.L. Cool J’s grandmother’s house for an interview with L.L., her home located in an apparently pleasant residential neighbourhood, a striking contrast to the footage of urban dereliction in the Bronx that is standard fare in hip hop documentaries. The director originally hoped to explore the origins and culture of hip hop with the aim of educating the Dutch TV viewer whose perception of the style may have been tainted by exposure to novelty material such as Dutch act MC Miker G and Deejay Sven’s 1986 hit “Holiday Rap”. Keywords: film; hip; hop; music; rap
• Afrofuturism Unbound: tobias c. van Veen in conversation with Paul D. Miller by van Veen, tobias c. (2013) - Arts movements, are usually way too European. One of the main issues I always, always, always see in arts movements like Afro-Futurism is a kind of informal Apartheid between use-practice in the everyday world—gasp, multiculturalism!!!—and the basic sense of theory and ideas that drive the agenda of an art movement. Keywords: afrofuturism; art; artists; film; hop; idea; kind; remix; slavery; spooky; think; way

• Foraging Places and Spaces through Dance: The Mycelium-like Spaces of Post-1989 Berlin by Janssen, Phoebe (2024) - Reminiscent of this burst, Berlin’s perceived, imagined and lived identity as a capital, as a cultural metropolis and as a European city still invites new spaces to pop up amongst the mélange of architecture. Author Biography Berlin-born but currently based between Amsterdam and Naarm/Melbourne, Phoebe Max Alice Janssen is a cultural musicologist and visual anthropologist researching environmental and cultural sustainability in city spaces. Keywords: berlin; city; clubs; east; mycelium; spaces

• Smokescreen Free Party Sound System by Riley, Andrew (2022) - In response Smokescreen, and other midlands sound systems, organised to raise awareness with a series of all-nighters entitled “All Systems No”, later emended to “All Systems Go” once the bill became law. Smokescreen Campout Birthday Celebration Nottinghamshire 2022. Keywords: credit; party; photo; smokescreen

• Luuma, Between Code and Controllerism by Kiefer, Chris (2018) - I played at my first algorave in 2013 in Brighton, although I didn’t do much coding on stage other than run a mass of SuperCollider code at the beginning, before playing the gig with various controllers. The instrument was at the same time highly intuitive and hugely difficult to play due to the massively non-linear state space of genetic code generation, but when it was programmed with decent constraints it was quite addictive to use. Keywords: code; feedback; kiefer; performance
• Saboritmico: A Report from the Dance Floor in Mexico by Ocelotl, Emilio; Del Angel, Luis N; Teixido, Marianne (2018) - Mexican music genres such as Banda, Huapango and Son are persistently heard in the streets, on public transportation, at parties, bars and clubs. Despite an active participation of women in the creation, interpretation and development of electronic music, often male names are the ones that survive in archives and historical retellings. Keywords: coding; collective; latin; mexican; mexico; music; performance; rggtrn; visuals
• ALGOBABEZ: Writing Code, Pushing Buttons by Knotts, Shelly; Armitage, Joanne (2018) - [2] Clip of first ALGOBABEZ performance: [3] We are not exaggerating; the sound system was literally smoking. Through collaboration with other women including Alexandra Cardenas, Lucy Cheesman and Miri Kat we have helped to establish a critical mass of women who are performing, teaching and organising live coding activities (Bolt 2017). Keywords: algobabez; algorave; coding; performance
• Playing with Something That Runs: Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in DJ and Laptop Performance (Mark J. Butler) by Young, Toby (2018) - In addition to offering useful reviews on existing literature, each chapter draws together central elements of dance music performance studies with other recurring themes in Butler’s work such as ontology and the “work concept” (chapter one), creativity and materiality (chapter two), perception (chapter three) and technological mediation (chapter four). At the heart of the discussion is an exploration of the various elements (both practical and theoretical) that comprise live performance in EDM. Keywords: butler; performance
• Fruity Batidas: The Technologies and Aesthetics of Kuduro by Sheridan, Garth (2014) - “‘Estámos Sempre a Subir’: kuduro music in Angola and Portugal” University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame) Africa in Portuguese, the Portuguese in Africa: http://norient.com/en/academic/kuduro http://oskuduristas.com/en/posts/8 http://oskuduristas.com/en/posts/8 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215%2F01642472-2009-063 http://kuduro.podomatic.com/entry/2009-09-16T14_15_11-07_00 http://kuduro.podomatic.com/entry/2009-09-16T14_15_11-07_00 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0261143010000449 Dancecult 6(1)96 An International Research Conference. Furthermore, I argue that kuduro producers and performers have developed a range of aesthetic and performative practices that reflect material, technological and social restraints common to life in contemporary Angola. Keywords: angola; class; fruity; genre; kuduro; luanda; music; performance; producers; production; recording; studio; technologies; technology; use; war

• How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, the Machine Speaks (Dave Tompkins) by van Veen, tobias c. (2012) - Though analogue vocoders had been built after the War by the likes of Siemens, it was Robert Moog (and Wendy Carlos) who built one of the first solid-state vocoders in 1970. In 1939, vocoder inventor Homer Dudley (of Bell Labs) offered the vocoder to MGM Studios in Hollywood as a “scientific aid to movie stars,” a kind of autofix for bad voicing, possibly for use in overdubbing (49). Keywords: alien; pain; tompkins; use; vocoder; war
• Post-Feminism’s “New Sexual Contract” and Electronic Dance Music’s Queered Femme Voices by James, Robin (2017) - Whereas post-feminist pop aims to grant women voice, civil personhood, and property-in- person, Decon/Recon adopts a compositional style that abolishes the division of labor and private property. Patriarchy hides itself behind the superficial acceptance of feminist women: if we like feminists, if we even have friends who are feminist, how can we be sexist? Keywords: body; bottoms; contract; decon; feminism; gender; james; music; new; november; person; pop; post; property; queer; resilience; sia; use; voice; white; women

• Boom Bap, Trap and Ageing in Belo Horizonte's Rap Music Scene by Brasil Teixeira, Michel Antônio (2019) - Rappers who sing over trap beats also sing over boom bap beats. Producers who make boom bap beats also make trap style beats. Keywords: bap; beats; boom; hip; hop; rap; trap
• Turntables of Doom by O'Donnell, Kath (2011) - The only way I can imagine it being better (in my head), is if there had been a battle, or if there had been two sounds (sound systems) on opposite sides of a fenced off outdoor basketball court or a Jamaican dance hall, like back in the early days of hip hop DJ battles. The rules of DJ Battles are the opposite to Rule One and Rule Two of Fight Club (Fincher 1999) since everybody in the DJ community talks about the battle before and afterwards. Keywords: april; hip; hop; sheep
• Hip-Hop Turntablism, Creativity and Collaboration (Sophy Smith) by Katz, Mark (2014) - To me, that’s crazy good, to keep pushing it in that way” (57) (Smith would have benefited from books such as Ingrid Monson’s Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (1997), though I should point out that the performances that Smith studies are not improvised). Even for readers of this journal and devotees of the art of the DJ, the advanced form of record manipulation that Sophy Smith spotlights in her 2013 monograph, Hip-Hop Turntablism, Creativity and Collaboration, may seem rather recherché. Keywords: hip; hop; smith

• India's Electronic Music Scene Under Lockdown: The First Three Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic by McGuinness, Chris (2020) - The spirit of experimentation drove many electronic music producers to take inspiration from a coronavirus-saturated mediascape. Over the last five years, India's electronic music scene has grown into a vibrant independent industry, with electronic music producers playing at clubs and festivals sponsored by beverage and clothing brands. Keywords: artists; author; india; june; lockdown; music; producers; whatsapp

• Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora (Paul Sullivan) by van Veen, tobias c. (2015) - Remixology shines in Sullivan’s evidently more familiar surroundings of ragga jungle, drum ‘n’ bass, 2-step, garage, grime and dubstep, where he traces in some detail the early import of dub music, immigrant musicians and soundsystem performance to the UK during the 1970s. Insofar as the book is a discourse (logos) on the remix, it isn’t, really—Remixology is more concerned with the history and worldwide spread of dub music, its practice of versionings, its significant personages and locales of influences, and its forging of what might be called a “diaspora” of sonic and cultural networks, moreso than any particular discourse upon the “remix” as such. Keywords: diaspora; dub; jamaican; music; remixology; studio; sullivan
• Riddims & Routes by van Veen, tobias c. (2015) - Riddims & Routes Dub Diaspora DJ Mix tobias c. van Veen, a.k.a. tobias.dj Université de Montréal / http://djtobias.com Tikiman – Acting Crazy (Club Vocal) – Main Street Records (1996) Studio 1 – Silber – Studio 1 (1996) Basic Channel – Phylyps Trak II – Basic Channel (1994) Keywords: dub; maurizio; mix

• Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor 1980–1983 (Tim Lawrence) by De Ledesma, Charlie - (2016) - On the title, Lawrence explains, “the reference to life is intended to evoke the way that New York party culture didn’t merely survive the hyped death of disco but positively flourished in its wake”. Finally, as Lawrence draws his paean to the era’s ethic of “democratic socializing” (461) to a close, he draws out parallel urban lives and deaths: “Clearly the task of redemocratizing New York and indeed other global cities remains daunting, yet the gathering desire to listen to music, dance, and engage creatively with a level of public freedom that was once taken for granted is visceral. Keywords: death; lawrence; life; new; york

• Golden Section Proportionality in the Music of dZihan and Kamien by Collins, Dave; Dunn, Michael (2021) - Atlas, in discussing the potentiality for contradictions of golden section points when the music is being performed, points out in his scrutiny of recordings of Puccini aria from La Bohème that these range from 1.6% to 2.66% (Atlas 2003: 277). Significantly, this shaped the overall approach towards determining golden section event points in the study; that is to say, it focussed the analysis upon the boundaries of these key sections that demarcated their start and end points, which are now referred to as sectional boundary points. Keywords: breakdown; composition; core; deviation; dzihan; end; event; gs point; kamien; music; point; proportionality; section; track

• Beyond Club Cultures: The Mobile DJ and Devotional Music in North India by S, Bharat (2021) - In the process, mobile DJ culture in North India has developed its own vocabulary of music production and listening distinct from the club. Mobile DJs are hired by pilgrims to accompany them on the journey. Keywords: bharat; credit; figure; kanwar; mobile; music; photo; photo credit; s. bharat
• Weekend Societies in the Walled Garden: Montréal’s Piknic Electronik in the Post-Pandemic Era by van Veen, tobias c. (2025) - The vibe was good, not at all the jittery, post-club scene that I remember Piknic descending into a decade prior. Weekend Societies in the Walled Garden: Montréal’s Piknic Electronik in the Post-Pandemic Era tobias c. van Veen California State University Northridge (USA) MUTEK at Piknik Electronik 2011–2012, tobias c. van Veen (2023a) Piknic Electronic has been one of the defining features of Montréal’s post-rave scene. Keywords: c. van; credit; dancefloor; mutek; photo; piknic; tobias; tobias c.; van; van veen; veen

• Executive Editor's Introduction by St John, Graham (2013) - Dancecult Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Issue 5(2) 2013 ISSN 1947-5403 ©2013 Dancecult Published twice yearly at http://dj.dancecult.net International Advisory Board Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Eliot Bates (University of Maryland, College Park, US), Andy Bennett (Griffith University, AU), Mark J Butler (Northwestern University, US), Anthony D’Andrea (University of Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE), Luis-Manuel Garcia, University of Chicago (DE), François Gauthier (Université du Québec à Montréal, CA), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Chris Gibson (University of New South Wales, AU), Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London, UK), Alice O’Grady, University of Leeds (UK), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, AU), David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK), Tim Lawrence (University of East London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Gordon Lynch (Birkbeck University of London, UK), Rene Lysloff (University of California, Riverside, US), Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago, US), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Tony Mitchell (University of Technology Sydney, AU), Karenza Moore (Lancaster University, UK), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, AU), Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah (University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (Griffith University, AU), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), tobias c. van Veen (McGill University, CA), Michael Veal (Yale University, US), Andrew Whelan (University of Wollongong, Australia) Dancecult 5(2) 2013: Executive Editor's Introduction, Masthead and Table of Contents Volume 5 Number 2 2013 Special issue on Afrofuturism Edited by tobias c. van Veen Executive Editor Graham St John (Griffith University, AU) Keywords: editor; tobias; university

• Plugging the Creative Drain: A Glimpse Into Electronic Music Migration in Northern Ireland by Power, Ciara (2022) - As this reflection will show, there is a need for greater understanding of the demographic, social, political and economic push and pull factors (Latukha 2022: 2226-7) which influence electronic music talent migration in Northern Ireland, but also attract such electronic music talent from other global scenes. After attendance of other parties and the dying nature of our own in recent months - this magic has died (Fahad 2022).[1] The lack of progressive night time policies in Northern Ireland also plays a significant factor in electronic music sustainability and is an encompassing push factor for electronic music migration. Keywords: belfast; ireland; migration; music; night; northern; talent

• Popular Music, Digital Technology and Society (Nick Prior) by Rauh, Andreas (2018) - His aims are ambitious, and the breadth of topics covered in the seven chapters (including online music consumption, digital music production, mobile listening and the connections between music and video games) is evidence of the author’s broad and in-depth knowledge of relevant fields and debates, as well as the importance and ubiquity of digital technologies in the worlds of contemporary popular musics. The breadth of topics that the book touches on is commendable, and it was a pleasant surprise to read a chapter dedicated to music and video games alongside an in-depth analysis of software for audio manipulation and circulation (an often overlooked yet important element of contemporary digital music production). Keywords: music; prior; society; technology
• The Concrete and the Ephemeral of Electronic Music Production by McGuire, Colin P. (2014) - In digital music, copies of recordings are no longer duplications, but rather part of a clonal colony, like a field of genetically identical mushrooms that has reproduced by vegetative asexual procreation.[5] The vagaries of distribution and playback have their own effect on the solidity of digital music. Keywords: audio; digital; music; new; recording; software; studio; technology

• Bassweight by Kirby, Philip Ronald (2012) - 2000f also notes how various UK bass music styles have spread internationally, with producers in other countries creating their own music using UK genres as production templates. Benga and Skream explore the development of a strand of UK garage into dubstep and acknowledge that although they initially tried to make garage tunes, their lack of ability to reproduce the style precisely led them to focus on the exploration of sonic avenues opened up by their production mistakes. Keywords: dubstep; genre; music

• ¿Algoritmos? Algo ¡Ritmos! Algorithms? Algo Rhythms! by Betancur Gutiérrez, Esteban (2018) - Also, he developed CineVivo, a graphics render engine for rendering live coding languages. First Live Coding Performance Made by Young Programmers Algoraves were already happening in other places, and the work in live coding and education was already taking place in Europe. Keywords: chuck; coding; language; music
• Live Coding: A New Approach to Musical Composition by Cardenas, Alexandra (2018) - Algorave (a portmanteau of Algorithmic Rave) is a scene that promotes the creation of (often live coded) music for the dance floor, putting together the apparent disparate disciplines of computer programming, dance music, live veejaying, and musical composition in real-time. Due to the rapid growth of the worldwide algorave scene, some journalists have speculated that it could be the future of dance music. Keywords: coding; music; new

• Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance (Tiger C. Roholt) by Schnee, Daniel Paul (2015) - Roholt’s later use of Sly and The Family Stone’s “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” is such an example (113) and one could argue that his thesis would have been better served focusing on such grooves for their intensity and bodily affect. In this case, Roholt’s work also creates a significant gateway into groove phenomenology amongst non-musicians, the groove-receiving body being as potent experientially as the groove-creating body. Keywords: body; example; groove; ponty; roholt

• Wasta Capital: Ethnographic Reflexivity at a Rooftop Nightclub in Beirut by Robinson, Caitlin (2013) - Ali's aspirations for increased fame and social recognition are set against the backdrop of insecurity associated with sectarian political fragmentation and the weak Lebanese state.[4] , I often joked with Ali, a prominent Lebanese DJ and electronic music producer, about how he would make an excellent anthropologist.[1] Keywords: ali; beauty; beirut; evening; nightclub; nightlife; table; wasta

• The International Recording Industries (ed. Lee Marshall) by Oldham, Paul (2013) - The anthology commences with a contentious piece by John Williamson and Martin Cloonan which problematizes much of the previous writing on recording industries and argues that these industries are indeed far from homogenous and best studied in terms of component parts (notably recording, live music and publishing). C. Michael Elavsky describes a Czech music culture that is both fully integrated into global industry practices but highly resistant to the Westernising cultural imperialism of copyright and intellectual property regulations. Keywords: industry; international; market; music; recording

• Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album (Charles Fairchild) by Rogers, Ian Keith (2015) - The currency of these books neatly dovetails with some of the core aesthetic tendencies of popular music studies. The series squarely addresses our history of public outreach; something all-but-written into the DNA of popular music studies via the early involvement of leftist advocates like Stuart Hall and the music-critic-slash-scholar Simon Frith. Keywords: album; fairchild; music
• Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Marc Weidenbaum) by Young, Toby (2016) - Albums like the fragile Analogue Bubblebath EPs and the ghostly pop of Selected Ambient Works 85-92 set James up as one of the most original and free-thinking of electronic producers. Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II (33 1/3 Series) Marc Weidenbaum New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Keywords: album; music; weidenbaum

• Music, Style, and Aging: Growing Old Disgracefully? (Andy Bennett) and Ageing and Youth Cultures: Music, Style and Identity (Andy Bennett and Paul Hodkinson eds.) by Giuffre, Liz (2015) - The development of a space for ageing in popular music studies shows that our field is maturing finally (pun intended). Both works make valuable contributions to the field of popular music studies and beyond, challenging the implication that listeners and participants simply stop being part of the field once they reach a certain age. Keywords: music; youth

• The Tribes of Burning Man: How an Experimental City in the Desert is Shaping the New American Counterculture (Steven T. Jones) by Luckman, Susan (2012) - The Tribes of Burning Man follows Steven Jones (aka. The Tribes of Burning Man: How an Experimental City in the Desert is Shaping the New American Counterculture Steven T. Jones San Francisco: Consortium of Collective Consciousness (CCC) Publishing, 2011 ISBN: 978-1888729290 (paperback) RRP: US$17.95 (paperback) Susan Luckman University of South Australia (AU) Steven T. Jones’ book is in many ways summed up by the signs marking the entry to the festival site identified by Larry Harvey—event founder and general king pin—as his favourite: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Keywords: jones; man; playa

• Man Vibes: Masculinities in the Jamaican Dancehall (Donna P. Hope) by Sterling, Marvin Dale (2011) - However, Hope notes that many middle-class men, too, secretly engage in this behavior; the ability to father and financially provide for many children in and out of wedlock is a measure of manhood for many Jamaican men across classes. While these are certainly crucial to an understanding of dancehall subculture, the more complex sociohistorical, political and economic nuances of Jamaican masculinity as expressed in this space have remained largely unexplored. Keywords: dancehall; hope; jamaican; lawrence; masculinity; music; russell
• Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973–92 (Tim Lawrence) by de Ledesma, Charlie (2011) - However, Hope notes that many middle-class men, too, secretly engage in this behavior; the ability to father and financially provide for many children in and out of wedlock is a measure of manhood for many Jamaican men across classes. While these are certainly crucial to an understanding of dancehall subculture, the more complex sociohistorical, political and economic nuances of Jamaican masculinity as expressed in this space have remained largely unexplored. Keywords: dancehall; hope; jamaican; lawrence; masculinity; music; russell

• Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity (Motti Regev) by Strong, Catherine (2014) - Regev notes, however, that “popular music” covers a wider array of styles than “pop-rock”, as popular music includes folk and traditional musics also. This chapter involves some re-treading of well-worn paths in pop music academia, such as the development of popular music criticism and the use of authenticity versus commercialism as a way of ascribing value to music and artists. Keywords: music; pop

• The Abstract Reality of the "Hardcore Continuum" by Fisher, Mark (2009) - In other words, the theory exists and has certain effects – how it influences other forms of production, how it adds to our own experiences of music. It is certainly related to a reality external to itself (a set of musics, clubs, people) but its role is not passive, but active. Keywords: continuum; hardcore; hcc; music; theory

• Flashback: Drugs and Dealing in the Golden Age of the London Rave Scene (Jennifer R. Ward) by Leneghan, Sean (2013) - This orientation to ethnographic research allows the ethnographer to get a detailed first-hand sense of the actions, meanings, emotions and projects of the individuals, groups or communities with whom the ethnographer is working. Finally, this study could be used as a blueprint by future researchers wishing to undertake ethnographic research into the worlds of drug dealers and consumers. Keywords: ecstasy; research; study; ward

• Showtime (Dir. Rollo Jackson) by Kirby, Philip Ronald (2013) - From the brief interview segments the centrality of sound system culture and pirate radio to the emergence of UK bass music styles becomes clear. UK MCs subsequently found their voice by incorporating influences from Jamaican culture. Keywords: dancehall; mcs; music

• The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism (Simone Krüger and Ruxandra Trandafoiu eds.) by Sheridan, Garth (2015) - Accordingly, the globalization of music is an increasingly well-researched area of inquiry within popular music studies and ethnomusicology. “Music and Tourism” features seven chapters that consider how music features in tourism discourses and how musical cultures develop around tourist subcultures. Keywords: globalization; music; psyculture

• Deviance and Risk on Holiday: An Ethnography of British Tourists in Ibiza (Daniel Briggs) by Bhardwa, Bina (2015) - In Chapter Two: The Flexible but Entirely Serious Methodology (and revisited in Chapter Eleven), Briggs outlines his position in the field as a participant observer and highlights the ethical dilemmas that accompany research with intoxicated participants. As Briggs notes, the challenges of conducting research in dance settings raises much ethical debate—an important debate to have—and Briggs’ research is pivotal in opening up the muted dialogue. Keywords: briggs; ibiza; research

• Discombobulated: Dispatches from the Wrong Side (Simon A. Morrison) by Bhardwa, Bina (2012) - Morrison’s exploration of club culture extends beyond the confines of club space. We follow Morrison’s clubbing trajectory through pre-, in- and post-club spaces (Moore and Miles 2004). Keywords: clubland; dispatches; drugs; morrison

• Apocalypso Disco: La rave-o-luzione della post techno (Riccardo Balli) by Brighenti, Andrea (2014) - Yet Balli's emphasis on the directly affective experience of the electronic dance floor is well understandable by anyone who has ever attended one of his sulphurous DJ sets: with joyful irreverence, parody, prankish attitude, and a certain nerdish citationist goût for obscure trash-pop references appositely mixed with occultist and high-brow sources, DJ Balli routinely serves his mash-up of sounds, a hotchpotch that is the essential counterpart to the theory and analyses outlined in the pages of his book. Contrary to other genres of underground music, Balli claims, electronic music has the potential to directly set the brainframe of the dancer—yes, a mind-control talk that comes straight out of a 1950s sci-fi movie. Keywords: apocalypso; balli; music

• Frankenstein, or the 8 bit Prometheus by Balli, Riccardo (2016) - But carrying on with my controversial association of ideas, I would say that the plunderphonics technique causes a similar modification in the genes of pop music: it warps its first goal (i.e. the numbing pursuit of turbo-capitalistic hedonism) in order to create something different, something literally bastardised (“bastard pop” is another term to refer to the genre). In this hour, when I momentarily expect my release, a strenuous concern disturbs me: That the sonic wretch might continue to undermine the strict categorisations of music genres. Keywords: bit; frankenstein; hyper; mash; music; prometheus; shelley; sonic

• Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture (Stella Sai-Chun Lau) by Evans, Mark (2014) - What Lau manages to achieve in this volume is to open up the discussion on the intersection of popular music and contemporary Christian music (and liturgy). She goes on to conclude that “Whether a genre is ‘authorised’ or not, it hinges on the openness of those in mainstream Christian leadership to new music genres that are of interest to young people” (170), and so too, the academic discipline of contemporary Christian music is bettered by those willing to pursue music at the margins of the field. Keywords: christian; lau; music

Epilogue

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