From g.stjohn at warpmail.net Mon May 18 21:56:40 2009 From: g.stjohn at warpmail.net (Graham St John) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:56:40 -0600 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Dancecult Journal Message-ID: Just as a reminder, the online open access peer-reviewed journal Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture will be launched this year. We are looking at Aug/Sep for the inaugural edition, and articles and reviews submitted *very soon* may make it in that edition. We are publishing full articles and shorter, creative "from the floor" pieces with multi-media content (field reports, mini ethnographies and interviews). See details on Dancecult's focus, section policies and submission procedures here: http://www.dancecult.net/journal/index.php/journal/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies We are also publishing conference/symposium reviews. If you are publishing or have recently published a book on EDMC, please consider sending it to our reviews editor Karenza Moore. Details here: http://www.dancecult.net/journal/index.php/journal/announcement/view/3 Dancecult has an international advisory board of 25 members: http://www.dancecult.net/journal/index.php/journal/about/displayMembership/3 If you have any technical inquires regarding submission please send your inquiries to Eliot Bates: http://www.eliotbates.com Graham St John -- --------------------------------------*----- Dr Graham St John Postdoctoral Fellow in Interactive Media and Performance Faculty of Fine Arts, Media Production and Studies University of Regina 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina, SK, Canada S4S 0A2 http://www.edgecentral.net/ Editor Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture http://www.dancecult.net/journal/index.php/journal/index From wayneandwax at gmail.com Tue May 19 19:46:29 2009 From: wayneandwax at gmail.com (wayne marshall) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:46:29 -0400 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Reggaeton, el libro Message-ID: Pardon any cross-posting, as well as the promotional nature of this message. But I'm happy to announce, with my co-editors Raquel Z. Rivera and Deborah Pacini Hernandez, that our collection, *Reggaeton*, has just been published by Duke University Press. Now, some of you might say, reggaeton is neither electronic, nor dance, nor music, nor culture; but you'd be horribly wrong. Seriously, though, I do wonder sometimes whether there's a bpm floor for what typically gets glossed/discussed as EDM and what does not (though I suspect it has more to do with race). At any rate, I do think the book will be of interest to the people who read this list, some of whom are contributors. Permit me a brief blurb: *Reggaeton* brings together critical assessments by scholars, journalists and artists, who delve into reggaeton's local roots and its transnational dissemination, parsing the genre's aesthetics, particularly in relation to those of hip-hop, and exploring the debates about race, nation, gender, and sexuality generated by the music and its associated cultural practices, from dance to fashion. The collection includes an in-depth exploration of the social and sonic currents that coalesced into reggaeton in Puerto Rico during the 1990s, as well as examinations of reggaeton in contemporary Puerto Rico, Panama, Jamaica, Cuba, New York and Miami. On top of all that, New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere Jones calls it "book cover of the year." It is in stores now; the best deal may be on Amazon. Finally, just a note that I recently appeared on DJ /Rupture's WFMU radio show with my co-editor, Raquel. We played musical examples and discussed some of the book's central themes. I'm afraid, however, that this may only be streaming for another day or so. But for those who are curious: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/31359 Best, Wayne Wayne Marshall Brandeis University (for a couple more days) http://wayneandwax.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From glf21 at sussex.ac.uk Wed May 27 15:37:54 2009 From: glf21 at sussex.ac.uk (Gemma Farrell) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:37:54 +0100 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Noob Message-ID: Hello all, My name is Gemma and I'm a 29 year old PG student at the University of Sussex, studying musicology and composition. My studies focus on pop music, and more specifically EDM. I'm writing my final MA project on Psytrance, so I've come here to pick your brains and learn more about EDMC. Kind regards Gemma Ms. Gemma Farrell Clerical Assistant (Curriculum/Assessment) SciTech School Office Tel: (01273) 873133 (ext.3133) Office Hours: Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri 9am-5.30pm, Weds 9am-11, 1.30pm-5.30pm. Address: University of Sussex School of Science and Technology Chichester 2r226 North South Road Falmer East Sussex BN2 9QJ From umutgungor at gmail.com Fri May 29 01:17:38 2009 From: umutgungor at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Umut_G=FCng=F6r?=) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 02:17:38 +0300 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Hi... Message-ID: <63899f20905281617ocf35fet60a67e3266aa8167@mail.gmail.com> Hi to all. I am Umut from Izmir- Turkey. I'm a Ph.D. student at the Dokuz Eylul University and my discipline is ethnomusicology. I've just began to work on thesis and my subject is the technological construction of the cultural identity: sonic representation in EDM. -- Umut Gungor Mithatpasa Cad. 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Rave Culture and Religion provides insights on developments in post-traditional religiosity through studies of rave's gnostic narratives of ascensionism and re-enchantment, explorations of the embodied spirituality and millennialist predispositions of dance culture, and investigations of transnational digital-art countercultures manifesting at geographic locations as diverse as Goa, India, and Nevada's Burning Man festival. Contributors examine raving as a new religious or revitalization movement; a powerful locus of sacrifice and transgression; a lived bodily experience; a practice comparable with world entheogenic rituals; and as evidencing a new orientalism. Rave Culture and Religion will be essential reading for advanced students and academics in the fields of sociology, cultural studies and religious studies. "Rave Culture and Religion is a smart book collecting essays many by emerging scholars and graduate students who, in personally experiencing rave culture, find immediate and urgent applicability for the academic theories they are reading. To link rave and religion will hopefully prove shocking enough to the established academic study of religion to open new discussions about religion and popular culture. To link rave and sophisticated academic study will hopefully be shocking enough to a few ravers to lead them to see beyond a simple-minded fuzzy understanding of the power and importance of what they are experiencing." - Professor Sam Gill, University of Colorado at Boulder Contents: Foreword by Douglas Rushkoff Introduction Part I Techno Culture Spirituality 1. The Difference Engine: Liberation and the Rave Imaginary - Graham St John 2. Ephemeral Spirit: Sacrificial Cyborg and Communal Soul - Hillegonda C. Rietveld Part II Dance, Rapture and Communion 3. Rapturous Ruptures: the 'Instituant' Religious Experience of Rave - Francois Gauthier 4. 'Connectedness' and the Rave Experience: Rave as New Religious Movement? - Tim Olaveson 5. The Flesh of Raving: Merleau-Ponty and the 'Experience' of Ecstacy - James Landau 6. Entheogenic Dance Ecstasis: Cross-cultural Contexts - Des Tramacchi 7. The 'Natural High': Altered States, Flashbacks and Neural Tuning at Raves - Melanie Takahashi Part III Music: The Techniques of Sound and Ecstasy 8. Selecting Ritual: DJ's Dancers and Liminality in Underground Dance Music - Morgan Gerard 9. Sounds of the London Underground: Gospel Music and Baptist Worship in the UK Garage Scene - Ciaran O'Hagan 10. Gamelan, Techno-Primitivism and the San Francisco Rave Scene - Gina Andrea Fatone Part IV Global Tribes: The Technomadic Counterculture 11. Techno Millennium: Dance, Ecology and Future Primitives - Graham St John 12. Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa - Anthony D'Andrea 13. Hedonic Tantra: Golden Goa's Trance Transmission - Erik Davis 14. Goa Trance and Trance in Goa: Smooth Striations - Arun Saldanha 15. Dancing on Common Ground: Exploring the Sacred at Burning Man - Robert V. Kozinets and John F. Sherry, Jr. More info http://www.edgecentral.net/rcr.htm -- --------------------------------------*----- Dr Graham St John Postdoctoral Fellow in Interactive Media and Performance Faculty of Fine Arts, Media Production and Studies University of Regina 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina, SK, Canada S4S 0A2 http://www.edgecentral.net/ Editor Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture http://www.dancecult.net/journal/index.php/journal/index -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: