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Focus and Scope
Dancecult is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). A platform for interdisciplinary scholarship on the shifting terrain of EDMCs worldwide, the journal houses research exploring the sites, technologies, sounds and cultures of electronic music in historical and contemporary perspectives. Playing host to studies of emergent forms of electronic music production, performance, distribution, and reception, as a portal for cutting-edge research on the relation between bodies, technologies, and cyberspace, as a medium through which the cultural politics of dance is critically investigated, and as a venue for innovative multimedia projects, Dancecult is the forum for research on EDMCs.
From dancehall to raving, club cultures to sound systems, disco to techno, breakbeat to psytrance, hip hop to dubstep, IDM to noisecore, nortec to bloghouse, global EDMCs are a shifting spectrum of scenes, genres, and aesthetics. What is the role of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion and spirituality in these formations? How have technologies, mind alterants, and popular culture conditioned this proliferation, and how has electronic music filtered into cinema, literature and everyday life? How does existing critical theory enable understanding of EDMCs, and how might the latter challenge the assumptions of our inherited heuristics? What is the role of the DJ in diverse genres, scenes, subcultures, and/or neotribes? As the journal of the international EDMC research network, Dancecult welcomes submissions from scholars addressing these and related inquiries across all disciplines.
Dancecult is published twice a year.
Section Policies
Editorial
Editorials are 1000-6000 words (including endnotes, bibliography, and caption text), and are solicited by the editorial board.
Editors- Graham St John, University of Queensland, Australia
- tobias c. van Veen, McGill University
 Open Submissions |
 Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Feature Articles
Feature Articles are 6000-9000 words (including endnotes, captions and bibliography). Must include a 150 word abstract.
Editors
- Graham St John, University of Queensland, Australia
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
From the Floor
Our "From The Floor" section hosts imaginative submissions reviewed by Dancecult editors (that is, submissions are not typically subject to blind peer-review). Submissions include field reports, mini-ethnographies, photo-essays and interviews. Pieces for this section should be between 750-2500 words in length. Rather than written in the style of an article with formal analysis and many citations, FTF pieces are more conversational or blog-like in style, and may consist of experimental and creative reportage styles across the field of EDM. They may include substantive multimedia components.
- Graham St John, University of Queensland, Australia
- tobias c. van Veen, McGill University
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Conversations
Conversations are 1000-3000 word pieces, directly solicited by the editorial board, which are designed to provoke dialogue concerning contemporary issues in the field.
Editors
- Graham St John, University of Queensland, Australia
- tobias c. van Veen, McGill University
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Reviews
Book, film, television, music and conference reviews pertaining to the broad field of EDMC studies as it touches upon popular music, ethnography, ethnomusicology, political theory, philosophy, music and technology, subculture and beyond (1500 words maximum).
Editors
- Karenza Moore, Lancaster University
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
Feature Articles submitted for publication to Dancecult are to be subjected to double-blind peer review by two international researchers. Although an attempt is made to complete the peer-review process within six weeks, in some cases it may take longer.
Publication Frequency
Dancecult is published twice a year.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Dancecult thanks...
Todd Thille for Dancecult's original web design and banner.
Dancecult Style Guide
Before submitting, all authors must download and read the Dancecult Style Guide (aka "the DSG").
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