Electronic Dance Music: Sources/Research

Revolution of 21^st Century Music

·      -   Social media & networking have played a huge role in the spreading of music.

o   YouTube, Facebook, Twitter

·       -  Technology has strongly affected the production of music and its diffusion throughout the world.

Sources:

Riley, Sarah CE, Christine Griffin, and Yvette Morey. "The case for ‘everyday politics’: Evaluating neo-tribal theory as a way to understand alternative forms of political participation, using electronic dance music culture as an example." Sociology. 44.2 (2010). 345-363.

St John, Graham. "Trance tribes and dance vibes: Victor Turner and electronic dance music culture." Victor Turner and contemporary cultural performance (2008). 149-73.
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=RIOZwUzy0vsC&oi=fnd&pg=PA149&dq=electronic+dance+music+21st+century&ots=AOLE1ciGtS&sig=mmAuMDyrt7gHClaC9IG_eDyiUfM#v=onepage&q&f=false

St John, Graham, et al. "Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture." (2011). Volume 3.1: 1-3.
http://www104.griffith.edu.au/index.php/dancecult/article/viewFile/313/306

Electronic Dance Music

·      -   Potential for political propaganda/change

·       -  Sense of community, social interactions

o   “Belonging to a community, however temporary,  brings a sense of warmth through the experience of solidarity and belonging”

·      -   Effect of technology

·       -  “EDMC is an umbrella term used to describe a heterogeneous international youth cultural phenomenon”

·       -  Beginnings: “The early UK rave scene has been contradictorily analysed as evidence of celebration, active resistance and an apolitical stance towards the increasingly individualistic and materialistic culture of Britain in the 1980s”

·       -  DJ Culture