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Zusatztext '...a substantial book...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.' Danecult Informationen zum Autor Mark J. Butler! Professor! Northwestern University! USA Klappentext Discos! clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the years. This title presents an array of scholarship that has sprung up in response. It features advanced perspectives from a range of academic disciplines that reveal the questions provoked by this musical tradition. Zusammenfassung Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the years. This title presents an array of scholarship that has sprung up in response. It features advanced perspectives from a range of academic disciplines that reveal the questions provoked by this musical tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part I Production! Performance and Aesthetics: When sound meets movement: performance in electronic dance music! Pedro Peixoto Ferreira; From refrain to rave: the decline of figure and the rise of ground! Philip Tagg; Conceptualizing rhythm and meter in electronic dance music! Mark J. Butler; Producing kwaito: nkosi sikelel' iAfrika after apartheid! Gavin Steingo; The disc jockey as composer! or how I became a composing DJ! Kai Fikentscher; On the process and aesthetics of sampling in electronic music production! Tara Rodgers; The aesthetics of failure: 'post-digital' tendencies in contemporary computer music! Kim Cascone; 'A pixel is a pixel. A club is a club': toward a hermeneutics of Berlin style DJ and VJ culture! Sebastian Klotz. Part II The Body! the Spirit and (the Regulation of ) Pleasure: In defence of disco! Richard Dyer; In the empire of the beat: discipline and disco! Walter Hughes; 'I want to see all my friends at once': Arthur Russell and the queering of gay disco! Tim Lawrence; I feel love: disco and its discontents! Tavia Nyong'o; Sampling sexuality: gender! technology and the body in dance music! Barbara Bradby; Sampling (hetero)sexuality: diva-ness and discipline in electronic dance music! Susana Loza; Dancing with desire: cultural embodiment in Tijuana's nor-tec music and dance! Alejandro L. Madrid; The spiritual economy of nightclubs and raves: osho sannyasins as party promoters in Ibiza and Pune/Goa! Anthony D'Andrea; Electronic dance music culture and religion: an overview! Graham St John; Soundtrack to an uncivil society: rave culture! the Criminal Justice Act and the politics of modernity! Jeremy Gilbert. Part III Identities! Belongings and Distinctions: Genres! subgenres! sub-subgenres and more: musical and social differentiation within electronic/dance music communities! Kembrew McLeod; Exploring the meaning of the mainstream (or why Sharon and Tracy dance around their handbags)! Sarah Thornton; Women and the early B ...
