Electronica, Dance and Club Music

Mark J. Butler, Professor, Northwestern University, USA

Contents: Introduction; Part I Production, Performance and Aesthetics: When sound meets movement: performance in electronic dance music, Pedro Peixoto Ferreira; From refrain to rave: the decline of figure and the rise of ground, Philip Tagg; Conceptualizing rhythm and meter in electronic dance music, Mark J. Butler; Producing kwaito: nkosi sikelel' iAfrika after apartheid, Gavin Steingo; The disc jockey as composer, or how I became a composing DJ, Kai Fikentscher; On the process and aesthetics of sampling in electronic music production, Tara Rodgers; The aesthetics of failure: 'post-digital' tendencies in contemporary computer music, Kim Cascone; 'A pixel is a pixel. A club is a club': toward a hermeneutics of Berlin style DJ and VJ culture, Sebastian Klotz. Part II The Body, the Spirit and (the Regulation of ) Pleasure: In defence of disco, Richard Dyer; In the empire of the beat: discipline and disco, Walter Hughes; 'I want to see all my friends at once': Arthur Russell and the queering of gay disco, Tim Lawrence; I feel love: disco and its discontents, Tavia Nyong'o; Sampling sexuality: gender, technology and the body in dance music, Barbara Bradby; Sampling (hetero)sexuality: diva-ness and discipline in electronic dance music, Susana Loza; Dancing with desire: cultural embodiment in Tijuana's nor-tec music and dance, Alejandro L. Madrid; The spiritual economy of nightclubs and raves: osho sannyasins as party promoters in Ibiza and Pune/Goa, Anthony D'Andrea; Electronic dance music culture and religion: an overview, Graham St John; Soundtrack to an uncivil society: rave culture, the Criminal Justice Act and the politics of modernity, Jeremy Gilbert. Part III Identities, Belongings and Distinctions: Genres, subgenres, sub-subgenres and more: musical and social differentiation within electronic/dance music communities, Kembrew McLeod; Exploring the meaning of the mainstream (or why Sharon and Tracy dance around their handbags), Sarah Thornton; Women and the early B