Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry
Christopher T. Conner, "Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry "
English | ISBN: 1793620393 | 2023 | 150 pages | EPUB, PDF | 13 MB + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1793620393 | 2023 | 150 pages | EPUB, PDF | 13 MB + 2 MB
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.