Full Description
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.
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
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