DJ Culture in the Mix: Power, Technology and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music

The DJ stands at a juncture of technology, performance and culture in the increasingly uncertain climate of the popular music industry, functioning both as pioneer of musical taste and gatekeeper. Together with promoters, producers, video jockeys and other professionals in dance music scenes, DJs have pushed forward music techniques and technological developments in the last few decades, from mash-ups and remixes to digital systems for emulating vinyl performance modes. Mixing established and upcoming researches from the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Austrial and Brazil, the collection offers critical insights into DJ activities in a range of global dance music contexts.

"There are good books on dance clubs and dance music, but this is the first volume on the figure of the dance music DJ and it is most welcome. 'DJ Culture in the Mix' is well- organized, up-to-date and genuinely international, and brings together many of the leading figures in dance music studies. Highly recommended." (Will Straw)

CONTENIDO:

1. Introduction (Hillegonda C. Rietveld)
2. Subjectivity in the Groove: Phonography, Digitaly and Fidelity (Bernardo Alexander Attias)
3. DJ Technologies, Social Networks and Gendered Trajectories in European DJ Cultures (Anna Gavanas, Rosa Reitsamer)
4. Journey to the Light? Immersion, Spectacle and Mediation (Hillegonda C. Rietveld)
5. The DJ as Electronic Deterritorializer (Mirko M. Hall, Naida Zukic)
6. "It's Not the Mix, It's the Selection": Music Programming in Contemporary DJ Culture (Kai Fikentscher)
7. Electronic Dance Music and Technological Change: Lessons from Actor-Network Theory (Jonathan Yu)
8. DJ Culture and the Commercial Club Scene in Sydney (Ed Montano)
9. DJs and the Aesthetic of Acceleration in Drum 'n' Bass (Chris Christodoulou)
10. The Forging of a White Gay Aesthetic at the Saint, 1980-4 (Tim Lawrence)
11. DJs as Cultural Mediators: The Mixing Work of Sao Paulo's Peripheral DJs (Ivan Paolo de Paris Fontanari)
12. War on the Dancefloor: Synthscenen's Military Power Games (Johanna Paulsson)
13. DJ-driven Literature: A Linguistic Remix (Simon A. Morrison)

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