DJ Culture in the Mix

Bernardo Alexander Attias is Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at California State University Northridge, US.Dr Anna Gavanas is Social Anthropologist and Docent at Remeso, Linköping University, Sweden.Dr Hillegonda C. Rietveld is Professor at the School of Arts and Creative Industries at London South Bank University, UK.

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1: IntroductionHillegonda C. RietveldChapter 2: Subjectivity in the Groove: Phonography, Digitality, and FidelityBernardo Alexander AttiasChapter 3: DJ Technologies, Social Networks, and Gendered Trajectories in European DJ CulturesAnna Gavanas and Rosa ReitsamerChapter 4: ‘Journey to the Light’? Immersion, Spectacle, and MediationHillegonda C. RietveldChapter 5: The DJ as Electronic De-TerritorializerMirko M. Hall and Naida ZukicChapter 6: ‘It’s Not the Mix, It’s the Selection’: Music Programming in Contemporary DJ Culture Kai FikentscherChapter 7: Electronic Dance Music and Technological Change: Lessons from Actor-Network Theory - Jonathan YuChapter 8: DJ Culture and the Commercial Club Scene in SydneyEd MontanoChapter 9: DJs and the Aesthetic of Acceleration in Drum ‘n’ BassChris ChristodoulouChapter 10: The Forging of a White Gay Aesthetic at the Saint, 1980-84Tim LawrenceChapter 11: DJs as Cultural Mediators: the Mixing Work of São Paulo’s Peripheral DJsIvan Paolo de Paris FontanariChapter 12: War on the Dance Floor: Synthscenen’s Military Power Games Johanna PaulssonChapter 13: DJ-Driven Literature: A Linguistic RemixSimon A. MorrisonContributorsIndex

What is enjoyable about the Attias, Gavanas, and Rietveld collection is that it not only draws on perspectives from academics associated with musicology but also includes specialists in social anthropology, cultural studies, communication studies, and media practice. Not only are the local scenes discussed diverse, but the academic perspectives and disciplines represented include multiple views … for this reason, it should be on the radar of scholar’s associated with popular music, and certainly those interested in EDM. Selections from this book would also be well-suited for introductory courses in popular music or music technology.