The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Dance Music

Hillegonda C. Rietveld is Professor Emerita at London South Bank University. She has published extensively on electronic dance music cultures, including the monograph This is Our House: House Music, Cultural Spaces and Technologies (1998/2021) and the co-edited collection DJ Culture in the Mix: Power, Technology and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music (2013). Toby Young is Professor of Composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Research Lead in Digital Performance. He is Music Supervisor for leading immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, and has collaborated with pop and jazz artists including Chase & Status, the Rolling Stones, Duran Duran, Florence Welch, Kano, Snow Ghosts, MOKO, and Jacob Banks.

• List of figures; Contributors; Introduction Hillegonda C. Rietveld and Toby Young; Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Raves as aesthetic experience: the Blackburn parties Beate Peter; 2. The 'Affective Charge' of the 'Inexistent' dancefloor: exploring nightclub architecture and design Catharine Rossi; 3. Sound system legacies Caspar Melville; 4. Let the DJ tell the story: thoughts on archiving and genre formation in the age of electronic dance music Kai Fikentscher; Part II. Local and Global Contexts: 5. Party as protest: Free Party, teknivals, early rave scenes and Berlin's hardcore techno Bianca Ludewig; 6. Angolan Kuduro in the context of sound system cultures of the black Atlantic Stefanie Alisch; 7. Chinese electronic dance music cultures: an analysis of their local cultural and social characteristics Matthew Ming-Tak Chew; 8. Taking the mix to twitch: streaming DJ culture during and after the pandemic Tobias C. van Veen and Bernardo Attias; Part III. Genre Aesthetics: 9. Drum and bass as cultural accelerator: underground resistance or ecstatic concession to speed? Chris Christodoulou; 10. Chill out: seeking ecstatic trance in low tempo EDM Rupert Till; 11. Genre classification in electronic dance music culture: from localised histories to the bandcamp underground Botond Vitos; Part IV. Sonic Subjectivities:12. Timbre and gesture at the threshold of meaning Maria Perevedentseva; 13. Pulse trains: an autoethnography of techno production in Berlin Nicolas Bougaïeff; 14. EDM's secret technologies Robert Fink; 15. Dance music and flow Tami Gadir; Part V. Dancefloor Identities: 16. Feminine subjectivities: gender in electronic music production and performance Samantha Parsley; 17. The divisiveness of the bass music drop in the North American festival setting Edward Katrak Spencer; 18. Ageing provocateurs: responding to older people's participation in electronic dance music culture Alice O'Grady and Alinka Greasely; Index.