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Weekend Societies - Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures (Hardcover)
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Weekend Societies - Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures (Hardcover)
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From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn
of the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate
empires, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into
cross-genre, multi-city, transnational mega-events. From free party
teknivals proliferating across Europe since the mid-1990s to
colossal corporate attractions like Tomorrowland Electric Daisy
Carnival and Stereosonic, and from transformational and
participatory events like Burning Man and events in the UK outdoor
psytrance circuit, to such digital arts and new media showcases as
Barcelona's Sonar Festival and Montreal's MUTEK, dance festivals
are platforms for a variety of arts, lifestyles, industries and
policies. Growing ubiquitous in contemporary social life, and
providing participants with independent sources of belonging, these
festivals and their event-cultures are diverse in organization,
intent and outcome. From ethically-charged and "boutique" events
with commitments to local regions to subsidiaries of entertainment
conglomerates touring multiple nations, EDM festivals are
expressions of "freedoms" revolutionary and recreational. Centres
of "EDM pop", critical vectors in tourism industries, fields of
racial distinction, or experiments in harm reduction, gifting
culture, and co-created art, as this volume demonstrates, diversity
is evident across management styles, performance legacies and modes
of participation. Weekend Societies is a timely interdisciplinary
volume from the emergent field of EDM festival and event-culture
studies. Echoing an industry trend in world dance music culture
from raves and clubs towards festivals, Weekend Societies features
contributions from scholars of EDM festivals showcasing a diversity
of methodological approaches, theoretical perspectives and
representational styles. Organised in four sections: Dance Empires;
Underground Networks; Urban Experiments; Global Flows, Weekend
Societies illustrates how a complex array of regional, economic,
social, cultural and political factors combine to determine the
fate of EDM festivals that transpire at the intersections of the
local and global.
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