Electronic Dance Music - From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher T Conner, Christopher T Dickens Conner, Christopher T. Conner, Christopher T. Dickens Conner, David R Dickens, Dickens David R.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2024
• EAN: 9781793620415
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-041-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Music and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / General, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Electronic, Pop Music, Popular Music, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Electronic Music, Electronic musical instruments