Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry

by Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens

Book Overview

Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry explores the subculture's emergence as a deviant subculture. This text analyzes how industry professionals, fans, and public officials helped usher in a new age of EDM, arguing that while the defining features of the subculture made it attractive, they also laid the foundations for outsiders to commodify the movement as a culture industry. Conner and Dickens explore the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793620415
• ISBN13: 9781793620415
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 160 Pages