<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class=""><div class=""><a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/4128787/DJ_Culture_in_the_Mix_Power_Technology_and_Social_Change_in_Electronic_Dance_Music">DJ Culture in the Mix: Power, Technology, and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music</a></div></div><div style="display:block" class=""><div style="display:block" class=""><br>The
DJ stands at a juncture of technology, performance and culture in the
increasingly uncertain climate of the popular music industry,
functioning both as pioneer of musical taste and gatekeeper of the music
industry. Together with promoters, producers, video jockeys (VJs) and
other professionals in dance music scenes, DJs have pushed forward music
techniques and technological developments in last few decades, from
mashups and remixes to digital systems for emulating vinyl performance
modes. This book is the outcome of international collaboration among
academics in the study of electronic dance music. Mixing established and
upcoming researchers from the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Austria,
Sweden, Australia and Brazil, the collection offers critical insights
into DJ activities in a range of global dance music contexts. In
particular, chapters address digitization and performativity, as well as
issues surrounding the gender dynamics and political economies of DJ
cultures and practices.
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<br>Content:
<br>1: Introduction - Hillegonda C. Rietveld
<br>2: Subjectivity in the Groove: Phonography, Digitality, and Fidelity - Bernardo Alexander Attias
<br>3: DJ Technologies, Social Networks, and Gendered Trajectories in European DJ Cultures - Anna Gavanas and Rosa Reitsamer
<br>4: ‘Journey to the Light’? Immersion, Spectacle, and Mediation - Hillegonda C. Rietveld
<br>5: The DJ as Electronic De-Territorializer - Mirko M. Hall and Naida Zukic
<br>6: ‘It’s Not the Mix, It’s the Selection’: Music Programming in Contemporary DJ Culture - Kai Fikentscher
<br>7: Electronic Dance Music and Technological Change: Lessons from Actor-Network Theory - Jonathan Yu
<br>8: DJ Culture and the Commercial Club Scene in Sydney - Ed Montano
<br>9: DJs and the Aesthetic of Acceleration in Drum ‘n’ Bass - Chris Christodoulou
<br>10: The Forging of a White Gay Aesthetic at the Saint, 1980-84 - Tim Lawrence
<br>11: DJs as Cultural Mediators: the Mixing Work of São Paulo’s Peripheral DJs - Ivan Paolo de Paris Fontanari
<br>12: War on the Dance Floor: Synthscenen’s Military Power Games - Johanna Paulsson
<br>13: DJ-Driven Literature: A Linguistic Remix - Simon A. Morrison
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<br>Reviews:
<br><br>"DJ Culture in the Mix offers not only a broader picture than the
standard monolithic account, but a refreshingly different type of
picture - a cubist approach, with a dozen viewpoints thrown
unpredictably together.... (It) might not be a definitive statement on
DJing or danceculture, but it's a timely representation of just how
broad the subject is - and should be" - Adam Harper for The Wire, April
2014, p 76.
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<br>"There are good books on dance clubs and dance music, but this is
the first volume on the figure of the dance music DJ and it is most
welcome. DJ Culture in the Mix is well-organized, up-to-date and
genuinely international, and brings together many of the leading figures
in dance music studies. Highly recommended” - Prof Will Straw, 2013.
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<br>"Exploring everything from the fractious taste politics of New York
gay clubland during the post-disco eighties to the cult of speed in 21st
Century drum ‘n’ bass, DJ Culture in the Mix is a collection of
probing, insightful essays that will provide stimulation and
enlightenment for dance music scholars and dance music fans alike” -
Simon Reynolds, 2013.</div></div><div style="display:block" class=""><h6 class=""><strong>More Info: </strong>Edited by Bernardo Alexander Attias, Anna Gavanas and Hillegonda C Rietveld</h6><h6 class=""><strong>Publisher: </strong>Bloomsbury Academic</h6><h6 class=""><strong>Publication Date: </strong>Oct 24, 2013</h6></div><h6 style="display:block" itemprop="keywords" class=""><strong>Research Interests: </strong><div class="" id="research_interest_list_6397" style="display:inline"><a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Music_Technology">Music Technology</a>, <a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Popular_Music_Studies">Popular Music Studies</a>, <a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Globalization">Globalization</a>, <a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Dance_Studies">Dance Studies</a>, <a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Popular_Music">Popular Music</a>, <span class=""><a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Literature_and_Music">Literature and Music</a>, <a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Electronic_Dance_Music_Culture_EDMC_">Electronic Dance Music Culture (EDMC)</a>, <a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Gender_and_Technology">Gender and Technology</a>, <a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Club_Culture">Club Culture</a>, <a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/DJ_culture">DJ culture</a>, and <a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Women_and_DJ_culture">Women and DJ culture</a></span></div></h6></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>carlos palombini<br>professor de musicologia ufmg<br>professor colaborador ppgm-unirio<br><a href="http://goo.gl/KMV98I" target="_blank">ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2" target="_blank">www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2</a><br></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div>
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