Dancecult - Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
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Aims and scope
Dancecult is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). A platform for interdisciplinary scholarship on the shifting terrain of EDMCs worldwide, the journal houses research exploring the sites, technologies, sounds and cultures of electronic music in historical and contemporary perspectives. Playing host to studies of emergent forms of electronic music production, performance, distribution, and reception, as a portal for cutting-edge research on the relation between bodies, technologies, and cyberspace, as a medium through which the cultural politics of dance is critically investigated, and as a venue for innovative multimedia projects, Dancecult is the forum for research on EDMCs.
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Profile
From dancehall to raving, club cultures to sound systems, disco to techno, breakbeat to psytrance, hip hop to dubstep, IDM to noisecore, nortec to bloghouse, global EDMCs are a shifting spectrum of scenes, genres, and aesthetics. What is the role of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion and spirituality in these formations? How have technologies, mind alterants, and popular culture conditioned this proliferation, and how has electronic music filtered into cinema, literature and everyday life? How does existing critical theory enable understanding of EDMCs, and how might the latter challenge the assumptions of our inherited heuristics? What is the role of the DJ in diverse genres, scenes, subcultures, and/or neotribes? As the journal of the international EDMC research network, Dancecult welcomes submissions from scholars addressing these and related inquiries across all disciplines.
Feature Articles submitted for publication to Dancecult are to be subjected to double-blind peer review by two international researchers. Although an attempt is made to complete the peer-review process within six weeks, in some cases it may take longer.
Dancecult is published twice a year. -
Editors
Executive Editor
Graham St John, University of Queensland, Australia
Managing Editor
tobias c. van Veen, McGill University, Canada
Reviews Editor
Karenza Moore, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Art Director
Cato Pulleyblank, Fairy Punk Creative Studio, Canada
Copyeditors
Catherine Baker, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Katrina Loughrey, Australia
Production Director
Gary Botts Powell, Texas A&M University, United States
Production Assistant
Luis-Manuel Garcia, University of Chicago, United States
Ed Montano, RMIT University, Australia
Botond Vitos, Monash University, Australia
Operations Assistant
Neal Thomas, McGill University, Canada
International Advisory Board
Sean Albiez, Southampton Solent University, United Kingdom
Eliot Bates, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia
Mark J Butler, Northwestern University, United States
Anthony D'Andrea, University of Limerick, Ireland
Rebekah Farrugia, Oakland University, United States
Kai Fikentscher, Germany
François Gauthier, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Anna Gavanas, Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden
Chris Gibson, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jeremy Gilbert, University of East London, United Kingdom
Ross Harley, University of New South Wales, Australia
David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Tim Lawrence, University of East London, United Kingdom
Geert Lovink, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gordon Lynch, Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom
Rene Lysloff, University of California, Riverside, United States
Alejandro L. Madrid, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States
Charity Marsh, University of Regina, Canada
Tony Mitchell, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Karenza Moore, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Andrew Murphie, University of New South Wales, Australia
Christopher Partridge, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Anne Petiau, ITSRS / Université Paris 5, France
Hillegonda C Rietveld, London South Bank University, United Kingdom
Geoff Stahl, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah, University of West Indies, Jamaica
Graham St John, University of Queensland, Australia
Will Straw, McGill University, Canada
Rupert Till, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
tobias c. van Veen, McGill University, Canada
Michael Veal, Yale University, United States
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