Editorial Policies

"Exodus Festival 2003, Australia" - Photo by Saskia Fotofolk.

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 dub-step, 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

Featured Articles

Featured articles are 5000-8000 words (including endnotes, captions and bibliography). Must include a 150 word abstract.

Editors
  • Eliot Bates, Cornell University
  • Graham St John, University of Queensland, Australia
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Editorials

Editorials are 1000-6000 words (including endnotes, bibliography, and caption text), and are solicited by the editorial board.

Editors
  • Eliot Bates, Cornell University
  • Graham St John, University of Queensland, Australia
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

From the Floor

"From the floor" hosts shorter peer-reviewed pieces. These include field reports, mini-ethnographies, and interviews. Pieces for this section should be from 1500-3000 words in length. Rather than written in the style of an article with formal analysis and many citations, FF pieces will be more conversational and creative. They may include substantive multimedia components. The emphasis is on ethnography, style and creativity.

Editors
  • Eliot Bates, Cornell University
  • Graham St John, University of Queensland, Australia
  • tobias van Veen, McGill University
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked 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
  • Eliot Bates, Cornell University
  • Graham St John, University of Queensland, Australia
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Book, film, and conference reviews (1500 words max).

Editors
  • Karenza Moore, Lancaster University
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Feature articles, editorials, and "from the floor" pieces submitted for publication to Dancecult are to be subjected to double blind peer review by two international experts. 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...

Eliot Bates for the logo design, pdf layout, and fearless wrangling with the OJS installation

Todd Thille for web design and banner

tobias van veen and Cato Pulleyblank for helpful advice and suggestions on web layout

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