Dancecult - Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture

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Dancecult is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture ISSN 1947-5403 (ONLINE) Journal metadata

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• Aims and scope
• Profile
• Editors
• Guide to authors
• Contact
• Call for papers

• 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.
  
  
  

• 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
  

• Guide to authors

  Before submitting, all authors must download and read the Dancecult Style Guide (aka "the DSG").
  
  The flow of a typical peer-reviewed piece, from initial submission to publication:
  
  1. An author submits an article to the journal, or is contacted by an editor to write an article.
  
  2. The article is forwarded by email to the editor(s).
  
  3. The editor(s) initiate the peer review process.
  
  4. Comments on the article are submitted to the editor(s), who then assign one of four evaluations to the article:
  
  a. accept submission
  b. revisions required
  c. resubmit for review
  d. decline submission
  
  5. Following outcome (a) or (b) the submisson is accepted with / without the requirement for revisions. Following outcome (c) the author must resubmit for review. And following outcome (d) the paper is rejected for publication.
  
  6. The article is copyedited for formatting, style, spelling and grammar. Where possible, a proof copy is provided to the author.
  
  7. The article is published in the designated issue of Dancecult.
  
  Please note: the editor(s) check submissions against basic protocols for section requirements and scholarly work (e.g. word length, the inclusion of references, and basic grammar) and assess the relevance of the subject area to Dancecult. The editor's hold the right to reject submissions that do not conform to basic protocols and requirements, including the Dancecult Style Guide (DSG). Indeed, submissions that do not conform to the DSG will be returned to the author. It is therefore imperative that authors read the DSG carefully prior to submitting.
  

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