Beyond the Dance Floor'? Gendered Publics and Creative Practices in Electronic Dance Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3858869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christabel Stirling (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 130-149 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Music Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0749-4467 • E-ISSN: 1477-2256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07494467.2016.1176772 |
| OpenAlex | W2462812187 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork in London (2013–2014) to address the reasons why men dominate the crowds in certain spheres of electronic/dance music. Focusing on a group of London-based genres, notably dub, dubstep, grime and 'bass music', I analyse how gender gets attached to musical formations through the qualities and connotations not only of musical sound, but of its material, technological, social and spatial mediations. I show how such connotations 'stick' (Ahmed, S. [2004 Ahmed, S. (2004). The cultural politics of emotion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Google Scholar]]. The cultural politics of emotion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) and get transmitted through time, leading to the persistent absence of women from certain musical lineages; and I demonstrate how this process serves to entrench and 'naturalise' associations between musical genres and 'maleness'. I then take this analysis to creative practices. Through my dialogue with DJ/producer Jack Latham—aka Jam City (Night Slugs)—I illuminate how musicians caught up in gendered socio-musical formations can become reflexively engaged with the gendered implications of the sounds they produce, and can therefore experiment with making changes
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dance · Electronic dance music · Improvisation · Media studies · Musical · Political science · Politics · Punk · Sociology · Visual arts · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · Music History and Culture · Theater, Performance, and Music History
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |