The Aesthetics of Electronic Dance Music, Part I
History, Genre, Scenes, Identity, Blackness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nick Wiltsher (0000-0001-5135-6160, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 415-425 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12333 |
| OpenAlex | W2512268214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 36 |
Electronic dance music has much about it to interest philosophers. In this article, I explore facets of dance music cultures, using the issue of authenticity as a framing question. The problem of sorting real or authentic dance music from mainstream or commercial clubbing can be treated as a matter of history and genre-definition; as a matter of defining scenes or subcultures; and as a matter of blackness. In each case, electronic dance music, and critical discourse surrounding it, offers fresh illumination of aesthetic questions. I briefly characterise the main genres of dance music, match conversations about the hardcore continuum with philosophers’ accounts of genre, survey sociologists’ ways of thinking about cultures and their connections to taste and personal identity, and link criticisms that dance music now lacks blackness to conceptions of black aesthetics. This article is Part I of two; Part II focusses on dancers, DJs, and the aesthetics and ontology of dance music itself. Video abstract (click to view
Aesthetics · Art · Concert dance · Contemporary dance · Dance · Electronic dance music · Literature · Mainstream · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Music History and Culture · Philosophy
The varieties of religious experience
Performing Rites
So Black and Blue
Genres, Subgenres, Sub-Subgenres and More
Presence and Pleasure
Systems of articulation, logics of change
Some Things a Scene Might Be
Elvis Everywhere
Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production
Subcultures, Scenes or Tribes? None of the Above
A Commitment to Clubbing
Essay review
Pursuit of Ecstasy
Categories of Art
Darker Than Blue
The Hardcore Continuum? A Report on the “The Hardcore Continuum?” symposium held at the University of East London, April 29th 2009
Against race
The British Dance Music Industry
Noise, the Political Economy of Music
The Aesthetics of Protest in UK Rave
Black Aesthetics
The Aesthetics of Punk Rock
"The Abstract Reality of the "Hardcore Continuum
Rumble in the Jungle
The History of Our World
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |