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Book Electronica  Dance and Club Music

Download or read book Electronica Dance and Club Music written by Mark J. Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the past four decades. This volume presents the rich array of scholarship that has sprung up in response. Cutting-edge perspectives from a broad range of academic disciplines reveal the complex questions provoked by this musical tradition. Issues considered include aesthetics; agency; 'the body' in dance, movement, and space; composition; identity (including gender, sexuality, race, and other constructs); musical design; place; pleasure; policing and moral panics; production techniques such as sampling; spirituality and religion; sub-cultural affiliations and distinctions; and technology. The essays are contributed by an international group of scholars and cover a geographically and culturally diverse array of musical scenes.

Book The New Age of Electronic Dance Music and Club Culture

Download or read book The New Age of Electronic Dance Music and Club Culture written by Anita Jóri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive overview of electronic dance music (EDM) and club culture. To do so, it interlinks a broad range of disciplines, revealing their (at times vastly) differing standpoints on the same subject. Scholars from such diverse fields as cultural studies, economics, linguistics, media studies, musicology, philosophy, and sociology share their perspectives. In addition, the book features articles by practitioners who have been active on the EDM scene for many years and discuss issues like gender and diversity problems in general, and the effects of gentrification on club culture in Berlin. Although the book’s main focus is on Berlin, one of the key centers of EDM and club culture, its findings can also be applied to other hotspots. Though primarily intended for researchers and students, the book will benefit all readers interested in obtaining an interdisciplinary overview of research on electronic dance music.

Book The Underground Is Massive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michaelangelo Matos
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2015-04-28
  • ISBN : 0062271806
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book The Underground Is Massive written by Michaelangelo Matos and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joining the ranks of Please Kill Me and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop comes this definitive chronicle of one of the hottest trends in popular culture—electronic dance music—from the noted authority covering the scene. It is the sound of the millennial generation, the music “defining youth culture of the 2010s” (Rolling Stone). Rooted in American techno/house and ’90s rave culture, electronic dance music has evolved into the biggest moneymaker on the concert circuit. Music journalist Michaelangelo Matos has been covering this beat since its genesis, and in The Underground Is Massive, charts for the first time the birth and rise of this last great outlaw musical subculture. Drawing on a vast array of resources, including hundreds of interviews and a library of rare artifacts, from rave fanzines to online mailing-list archives, Matos reveals how EDM blossomed in tandem with the nascent Internet—message boards and chat lines connected partiers from town to town. In turn, these ravers, many early technology adopters, helped spearhead the information revolution. As tech was the tool, Ecstasy—(Molly, as it’s know today) an empathic drug that heightens sensory pleasure—was the narcotic fueling this alternative movement. Full of unique insights, lively details, entertaining stories, dozens of photos, and unforgettable misfits and stars—from early break-in parties to Skrillex and Daft Punk—The Underground Is Massive captures this fascinating trend in American pop culture history, a grassroots movement that would help define the future of music and the modern tech world we live in.

Book Rave On

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew Collin
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2018-10-09
  • ISBN : 022659548X
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Rave On written by Matthew Collin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. Cultural liberation and musical innovation. Pyrotechnics, bottle service, bass drops, and molly. Electronic dance music has been a vital force for more than three decades now, and has undergone transformation upon transformation as it has taken over the world. In this searching, lyrical account of dance music culture worldwide, Matthew Collin takes stock of its highest highs and lowest lows across its global trajectory. Through firsthand reportage and interviews with clubbers and DJs, Collin documents the itinerant musical form from its underground beginnings in New York, Chicago, and Detroit in the 1980s, to its explosions in Ibiza and Berlin, to today’s mainstream music scenes in new frontiers like Las Vegas, Shanghai, and Dubai. Collin shows how its dizzying array of genres—from house, techno, and garage to drum and bass, dubstep, and psytrance—have given voice to locally specific struggles. For so many people in so many different places, electronic dance music has been caught up in the search for free cultural space: forming the soundtrack to liberation for South African youth after Apartheid; inspiring a psychedelic party culture in Israel; offering fleeting escape from—and at times into—corporatization in China; and even undergirding a veritable “independent republic” in a politically contested slice of the former Soviet Union. Full of admiration for the possibilities the music has opened up all over the world, Collin also unflinchingly probes where this utopianism has fallen short, whether the culture maintains its liberating possibilities today, and where it might go in the future.

Book Electronica  Dance and Club Music

Download or read book Electronica Dance and Club Music written by MarkJ. Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the past four decades. This volume presents the rich array of scholarship that has sprung up in response. Cutting-edge perspectives from a broad range of academic disciplines reveal the complex questions provoked by this musical tradition. Issues considered include aesthetics; agency; 'the body' in dance, movement, and space; composition; identity (including gender, sexuality, race, and other constructs); musical design; place; pleasure; policing and moral panics; production techniques such as sampling; spirituality and religion; sub-cultural affiliations and distinctions; and technology. The essays are contributed by an international group of scholars and cover a geographically and culturally diverse array of musical scenes.

Book The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music

Download or read book The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music written by Ewa Mazierska and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes EDM's place on the map of popular music. The book accounts for various ambiguities, variations, transformations, and manifestations of EDM, pertaining to its generic fragmentation, large geographical spread, modes of consumption and, changes in technology. It focuses especially on its current state, its future, and its borders – between EDM and other forms of electronic music, as well as other forms of popular music. It accounts for the rise of EDM in places that are overlooked by the existing literature, such as Russia and Eastern Europe, and examines the multi-media and visual aspects such as the way EDM events music are staged and the specificity of EDM music videos. Divided into four parts – concepts, technology, celebrity, and consumption – this book takes a holistic look at the many sides of EDM culture.

Book Unlocking the Groove

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Jonathan Butler
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780253346629
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Unlocking the Groove written by Mark Jonathan Butler and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first music-driven analysis of electronic dance music.

Book Techno Rebels

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  • Author : Dan Sicko
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0814334385
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Techno Rebels written by Dan Sicko and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview: Although the most vital and innovative trend in contemporary music, techno is notoriously difficult to define. What, exactly, is techno? Author Dan Sicko offers an entertaining, informed, and in-depth answer to this question in Techno Rebels, the music's authoritative American chronicle and a must-read for all fans of techno popular music, and contemporary culture.

Book Dance Music Manual

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rick Snoman
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2013-05-02
  • ISBN : 1136115749
  • Pages : 519 pages

Download or read book Dance Music Manual written by Rick Snoman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever your level of experience, the Dance Music Manual is packed with sound advice, techniques and practical examples to help you achieve professional results. Written by a professional producer and remixer, this book offers a comprehensive approach to music production, including knowledge of the tools, equipment and different dance genres. Get more advice and resources from the books official website, www.dancemusicproduction.com. * Included in the new edition are sections on recording instruments alongside new chapters covering more dance music genres. * Examines all aspects of music production, from sound design, compression & effect to mixing & mastering to publishing & promoting, to help you become a better producer. * The companion CD provides sample and example tracks, demonstrating the techniques used in the book.

Book Electronic Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sébastien Darchen
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2021-04-19
  • ISBN : 9813347414
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Electronic Cities written by Sébastien Darchen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. It focuses on the historical development of these scenes, with an emphasis on the post-2000 context, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its far-reaching effects. Expert contributors highlight the influence of geographical contexts, as well as cultural and political histories, in the development of mainstream EDM scenes and underground Electronic Dance Music Cultures. This expansive work offers additional insights on cultural and creative policies, planning interventions and regulations associated with nightlife management, and provides a detailed analysis of current challenges inherent to the governance of EDM scenes in contemporary cities.

Book Electronica  Dance and Club Music

Download or read book Electronica Dance and Club Music written by MarkJ. Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the past four decades. This volume presents the rich array of scholarship that has sprung up in response. Cutting-edge perspectives from a broad range of academic disciplines reveal the complex questions provoked by this musical tradition. Issues considered include aesthetics; agency; 'the body' in dance, movement, and space; composition; identity (including gender, sexuality, race, and other constructs); musical design; place; pleasure; policing and moral panics; production techniques such as sampling; spirituality and religion; sub-cultural affiliations and distinctions; and technology. The essays are contributed by an international group of scholars and cover a geographically and culturally diverse array of musical scenes.

Book Dance Music Spaces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2022-01-31
  • ISBN : 1793607559
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book Dance Music Spaces written by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance Music Spaces examines the production of physical and digital spaces in dance music, and how the players—clubs, clubbers, and DJs—use authenticity, branding, and commercialism to navigate them. An in-depth study into three women DJs—The Blessed Madonna, Honey Dijon, and Peggy Gou—reveals a new concept, “authenticity maneuvering.” In it Danielle Hidalgo exposes how the strategic use of a rave ethos both bolsters acceptance in dance music spaces and hides often problematic commercial practices. This timely, thoughtful, and deeply personal book presents a compelling analysis of the complicated interplay between dancing bodies, digital practices, and spatial offerings in contemporary dance music.

Book Rave America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mireille Silcott
  • Publisher : ECW Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 1550223836
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Rave America written by Mireille Silcott and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through hundreds of interviews with DJ's, recording artists, producers, promoters, drug lords, club celbrities, and nightworld casualties, this book takes readers into the deepest recesses of the electronic dance culture, uncovering secrets and stories never before seen inprints. Starting with club culture in the 70s and 80s the book inlcudes such greats as DJ Frankie Bones, the acid fuelled dreams of SF's Full Moon beach parties, Florida's DJ Icey, right up to the twelve hour post-aids muscle raves of the cross coutnry gay circuit parties.

Book The Song of the Machine

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Blot
  • Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
  • Release : 2019-10-08
  • ISBN : 031652624X
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Song of the Machine written by David Blot and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pulsating graphic novel on the epic history of electronic music, from the heyday of disco in the 1970s to the rave culture of the 1990s and beyond. With a foreword from house music legends Daft Punk, The Song of the Machine is a celebration of a musical wave that swept across the world over decades, demographics, and dance styles. Originally published in 2000 in France, and updated through today for this first English edition, the electrifying narrative introduces readers to the harbingers of the genre, such as David Mancuso, Larry Levan, and Frankie Knuckles (known as the "Godfather of House Music"); the prototypes of modern-day nightclubs and dance venues, like The Loft and Studio 54 in New York City, the Palace in Paris, and the Hacienda in Manchester, England, and of course, the technology and machines that first produced and synthesized the records that galvanized a movement. Told through exciting illustrations that evolve with the era they describe, and complete with specially curated playlists for each and every decade, The Song of the Machine recounts the influences and inspirations, the people and epic parties that created and defined this revolutionary music.

Book Generation Ecstasy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simon Reynolds
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-06-19
  • ISBN : 1136783164
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Generation Ecstasy written by Simon Reynolds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.

Book All Music Guide to Electronica

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vladimir Bogdanov
  • Publisher : San Francisco, CA : Backbeat Books
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780879306281
  • Pages : 688 pages

Download or read book All Music Guide to Electronica written by Vladimir Bogdanov and published by San Francisco, CA : Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide profiles the careers of hundreds of major artists, such as Aphex Twin and the Prodigy, and reviews thousands of the best electronica recordings. Incisive essays explore electronica's widely varied subgenres. 20 charts.

Book DJ Culture in the Mix

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernardo Attias
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2013-10-24
  • ISBN : 1623564379
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book DJ Culture in the Mix written by Bernardo Attias and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DJ stands at a juncture of technology, performance and culture in the increasingly uncertain climate of the popular music industry, functioning both as pioneer of musical taste and gatekeeper of the music industry. Together with promoters, producers, video jockeys (VJs) and other professionals in dance music scenes, DJs have pushed forward music techniques and technological developments in last few decades, from mashups and remixes to digital systems for emulating vinyl performance modes. This book is the outcome of international collaboration among academics in the study of electronic dance music. Mixing established and upcoming researchers from the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Australia and Brazil, the collection offers critical insights into DJ activities in a range of global dance music contexts. In particular, chapters address digitization and performativity, as well as issues surrounding the gender dynamics and political economies of DJ cultures and practices.