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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Electronic Dance Music"”.
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Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry
… analyzing historical documents, I examine the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) subculture, since its inception in the late 80s as a deviant subculture. Previous studies of raves and other music subcultures focus almost exclusively on the role of popularity in transforming the subculture. In this …
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Dancing in the void: Electronic dance music festival attendance as a path to enchantment
… the transformative potential of contemporary electronic dance music festivals within the context of prevailing societal trends under neoliberalism, including secularism, individualism, hyperconsumption, and hyperproductivity. By synthesizing existing literature from sociology, philosophy, and …
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How Do Mainstream Cultural Market Categories Emerge: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Creation of Electronic Dance Music
… inquiry of the creation of the category of Electronic Dance Music (EDM). I find that each level contributes differently to the creation of a mainstream cultural category. Local innovation networks (or LINs) unite consumers and producers and provide unique elements that facilitate the …
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Iceland's house scene : accessing global markets?
… is to gain better understanding of how the music market structure is, on international level. The global market for electronic dance music has been developing and expanding through its time and is the genre that I will be focusing on in the following paper. Looking especially at European …
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Harmonic Data: AI Music, EDM Transcription, & Minimalist Jazz
… thesis presents research in the domains of music theory and music technology. The topics of the three chapters are as follows: (1) the technical and artistic limitations of artificial intelligence when generating music, (2) the transcription of electronic dance music (EDM) using a hybrid …
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Pop/Rock Compositions Lyrically Targeting an "At-risk" Constituency
… social and personal issues. Specifically, the music targets a constituency of at risk youth who are embroiled in issues arising from physical and mental abuse, depression, and maladies rooted in family dysfunction. The aim of this project is to reach out to this group through music and …
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THE RISE OF WAVETABLE SYNTHESIS IN COMMERCIAL MUSIC AND ITS CREATIVE APPLICATIONS
<p>Wavetable synthesis is a powerful tool for music creation that helps composers and producers develop their own unique sounds. Though wavetable synthesis has been utilized in music since the early 1980s, advancements in computer technologies in the 2000s and the subsequent releases of software …
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Making Hammers With Art: The Producer of House and Techno
… examines how producers of house and techno â two electronic dance music (EDM) genresâ negotiate notions of artistry, professionalism, and authorship through their production practice. Producers of house and techno occupy a distinctive position where the success and recognition that their …
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Kwaito's Legacy of Aestheticizing Freedom: Amapiano in Langa township and the World
An electronic dance music originating from South African townships around 2012, amapiano (literally ‘the pianos') represents a contemporary musical and cultural form which offers a means of expression for black youth. Currently the most popular music in the country, this thesis examines the form …
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Township refusals (for containment): engaging the cultural production of Sepitori s Amapiano through a Black (Sonic) Studies curatorial lens
Amapiano is one of South Africa's most popular musical exports. As a musical practice, Amapiano falls under the “genre” of Electronic Dance Music (EDM), more specifically, House music. Amapiano's global acclaim and exponential growth is aided by how popular culture is consumed in the 21st century: …
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Composers on the Decks
… classical" and what I am calling "instrumental-electronic dance music" in what may be the first academic study to examine the latter and its connections with the former.</p><p><italic>Alleys of Your Mind</italic> is a work for seven wind instruments, soprano and laptop DJ composed as social …
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Selling the modern day tribe: The commodification of rave culture
… of rave culture in the form of the contemporary electronic dance festival. The research incorporates both qualitative and quantitative data to interrogate media coverage on rave culture as well as interviews and first hand experience within the rave scene. I analyse mainstream print and …
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British-to-Translocal Super-Club Culture (1991 – 2023): An Interpretation of a Life-World
… to describe social life in studies of popular music and in particular EDMC (electronic dance music culture) scholarship. This thesis is therefore the first dedicated study that applies the original themes of the ‘life-world’ model to an interpretation of that which I refer to as …
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Stir it up: interdisciplinary popular musicology and creative industries
… cultural artefacts and scenes in which Popular Music predominantly figures. Secondly: that these critical engagements seek to identify the political import and functions of these artefacts and scenes in the light of the failure of the grand revolutionary project of 1968, which had prompted a …