Techno-tourism and post-industrial neo-romanticism in Berlin's electronic dance music scenes

Bibliographic Data

ID5780930
AuthorsLara Milesi García (0000-0001-6122-0515, University of Groningen, corresponding author), Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham, UK; University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Year2015
Volume16
Issue3
Pages276-295
Publication date2015-12-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTourist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-7976 • E-ISSN: 1741-3206
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1468797615618037
OpenAlexW2523537712
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited48

This article profiles the 'techno-tourists' of Berlin: music fans who return repeatedly to the city in order to participate in the local electronic dance music scenes. Based on interviews, this article sketches a profile of these music-minded voyagers, surveying their motivations, their attitudes, their patterns of travel and their strategies for making this mode of travel possible in terms of work and money. It also situates this recent wave of tourism within a broader history of tourism in Berlin, as well as considering its representation in local popular discourse. Local debates about the impact of tourism are reflected in interviewees' ambivalence towards tourist identities, as they strive to describe the terms of their socio-cultural belonging within a sub-cultural scene that is spatially distant from house and home

Ambivalence · Contemporary dance · Electronic dance music · Mode (computer interface · Music festival · Representation · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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