Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture

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Publisher: Dancecult

Dancecult is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of
electronic dance music culture (EDMC). A platform for
interdisciplinary 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.

Playing host to studies of emergent forms of electronic music
production, performance, distribution, and reception, as a portal for
cutting-edge research on the relation between bodies, technologies,
and cyberspace, as a medium through which the cultural politics of
dance is critically investigated, and as a venue for innovative
multimedia projects, Dancecult is the forum for research on EDMCs.

From dancehall to raving, club cultures to sound systems, disco to
techno, breakbeat to psytrance, hip hop to dub-step, IDM to noisecore,
nortec to bloghouse, global EDMCs are a shifting spectrum of scenes,
genres, and aesthetics. What is the role of ethnicity, gender,
sexuality, class, religion and spirituality in these formations? How
have technologies, mind alterants, and popular culture conditioned
this proliferation, and how has electronic music filtered into cinema,
literature and everyday life? How does existing critical theory enable
understanding of EDMCs, and how might the latter challenge the
assumptions of our inherited heuristics? What is the role of the DJ in
diverse genres, scenes, subcultures, and/or neotribes? As the journal
of the international EDMC research network,

Dancecult welcomes submissions from scholars addressing these and
related inquiries across all disciplines.

ISSN 1947-5403

Executive Editor:

Graham St John
University of Queensland
Australia

Email: g.stjohn@warpmail.net

Dancecult is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the
Internet.

Abstracts available online. Articles available in HTML and PDF format.

Current Issue: Vol 1, No 1 (2009)

Date: 8 October 2009