Electric Empires
From Countercultural Movement to Corporate Enterprise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2153602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C T Conner (0000-0002-2289-6245, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA, corresponding author), David R Dickens (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1063-1080 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deviant Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01639625.2022.2139208 |
| OpenAlex | W4307721862 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
This article explores the emergence of the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) subculture, and how it transitioned from being perceived as a deviant subculture into a more legitimate culture industry. Using a historical analysis of documents, interviews with industry professionals, and ethnographic observations at EDM events; we explore the process by which this transition occurred. As we argue, the defining features of the EDM subculture also laid the foundations for outsiders to commodify the movement as a culture industry. We identify the concept of "subcultural appropriation" as the mechanism by which the movement's politically dissident features were removed, and its place as a multi-billion dollar industry made possible. Long adherents to the subculture we interviewed, noted that this rise in popularity came at the cost of feelings of solidarity and commitment to core values of the subculture. We conclude with a discussion of how this study addresses limitations of the culture industry thesis, and argue for its continued utility to the study of subcultures and social groups
Appropriation · Commodification · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Grassroots · Laundry · Media studies · Participant observation · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Subculture (biology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Popular culture and high culture
Venice
Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education
Neo-Bohemia
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The Research Act
Folk devils and moral panics
Very Important People
The Conquest of Cool
Dialectic of Enlightenment, 2011
Ecstasy
The post-subcultural turn
The Crisis of One-Dimensionality
Neoliberalizing Space
The Consumer Society
Youth Subcultural Theory
Contraculture and Subculture
Delinquent Boys
Introduction to Adorno
Life and Death on the Pulse Dance Floor
Creative Cities' and the Rise of the Dealer Class
Culture Industry Reconsidered
Queer-Ing Sociology, Sociologizing Queer Theory
Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance
Cultural Studies in Sociology
The Subcultural Imagination
Rethinking Subculture
Subcultures or Neo-tribes? Rethinking the Relationship Between Youth, Style and Musical Taste
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |