Weekend Societies
Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19934896 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Graham St John (0000-0002-2020-5738) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Weekend Societies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781501311413 |
| OpenAlex | W4231744417 |
| ISBN | 9781501311413 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn of the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate empires, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into cross-genre, multi-city, transnational mega-events. From free party teknivals proliferating across Europe since the mid-1990s to colossal corporate attractions like Tomorrowland Electric Daisy Carnival and Stereosonic, and from transformational and participatory events like Burning Man and events in the UK outdoor psytrance circuit, to such digital arts and new media showcases as Barcelona’s Sónar Festival and Montreal’s MUTEK, dance festivals are platforms for a variety of arts, lifestyles, industries and policies. Growing ubiquitous in contemporary social life, and providing participants with independent sources of belonging, these festivals and their event-cultures are diverse in organization, intent and outcome. From ethically-charged and “boutique” events with commitments to local regions to subsidiaries of entertainment conglomerates touring multiple nations, EDM festivals are expressions of “freedoms” revolutionary and recreational. Centres of “EDM pop”, critical vectors in tourism industries, fields of racial distinction, or experiments in harm reduction, gifting culture, and co-created art, as this volume demonstrates, diversity is evident across management styles, performance legacies and modes of participation. Weekend Societies is a timely interdisciplinary volume from the emergent field of EDM festival and event-culture studies. Echoing an industry trend in world dance music culture from raves and clubs towards festivals, Weekend Societies features contributions from scholars of EDM festivals showcasing a diversity of methodological approaches, theoretical perspectives and representational styles. Organised in four sections: Dance Empires; Underground Networks; Urban Experiments; Global Flows, Weekend Societies illustrates how a complex array of regional, economic, social, cultural and political factors combine to determine the fate of EDM festivals that transpire at the intersections of the local and global
Art · Dance · Entertainment · Entertainment industry · Media studies · Music festival · Performing arts · Political science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Diversity and Impact of Dance · History · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Grand Paris and Electronic Dance Music
Situated formats around the science-art-technology debate
Introduction
Transatlantic Techno Myths
DJ Performance Analysis
Seasonal Variation of Use of Common Psychedelics and Party Drugs Among Nightclub/Festival Attendees in New York City
Sensorial Design as a Mediating Practice in Leisure Events
Sacred Languages of Pop
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |