Electronic Dance Music

From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry

Christopher T. Conner, David R. Dickens (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2039-2 (ISBN)

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This text explores how the Electronic Dance Music subculture transitioned from a marginalized deviant subculture to a billion-dollar culture industry, looking at how the culture’s success has undermined in-group solidarity and marginalized those who helped pioneer it.

Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry explores the subculture’s emergence as a deviant subculture. This text analyzes how industry professionals, fans, and public officials helped usher in a new age of EDM, arguing that while the defining features of the subculture made it attractive, they also laid the foundations for outsiders to commodify the movement as a culture industry. Conner and Dickens explore the concept of “commodified resistance” as the mechanism by which the movement's politically dissident features were removed and its place as a multi-billion-dollar industry made possible. Ultimately, this text advocates the continued utility of the culture industry thesis through an empirical analysis of the EDM subculture.

Check out an interview with the author on the New Books Network podcast here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/electronic-dance-music

Christopher T. Conner is non-tenure track teaching assistant professor of sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. David R. Dickens was professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for thirty-eight years.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Phase I: Beginnings (1980s–1995)
Chapter 2. Phase II: The Rise of the Rave Outlaw (1995–2009)
Chapter 3. Phase III: EDM as Culture Industry (2010–2022)
Conclusion
Appendix: The Rave Act
References
About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Critical Perspectives on Music and Society
Zusatzinfo	30 b/w photos;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 238 mm
Gewicht	376 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-7936-2039-3 / 1793620393
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-2039-2 / 9781793620392
Zustand	Neuware