| After the initial call for contributions some ten months ago, I am now delighted to announce the launch of Dancecult, which is now live, with downloadable PDFs accessible at http://dj.dancecult.net. Alongside Managing Editor Eliot Bates and Reviews Editor Karenza Moore - who have thrown themselves headlong into the journal - I am happy to see the EDMC research mothership slide down the sluiceway to begin her maiden voyage. Dancecult 1.1 2009 Contents: http://dj.dancecult.net Editor's Introduction Featured Articles IDM as a "Minor" Literature: The Treatment of Cultural and Musical Norms by "Intelligent Dance Music" - Ramzy Alwakeel Decline of the Rave Culture Inspired Clubculture in China: State Suppression, Clubber Adaptations, and Socio-cultural Transformations - Matthew M Chew Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival - Graham St John Too Young to Drink, Too Old to Dance: The Influences of Age and Gender on (Non) Rave Participation - Julie Gregory DJ Culture in the Commercial Sydney Dance Music Scene - Ed Montano From the Floor Convergence and Soniculture: 10 Years of MUTEK - tobias c. van Veen The Hardcore Continuum? - Jeremy Gilbert The Abstract Reality of the "Hardcore Continuum" - Mark Fisher 12 Noon, Black Rock City - Graham St John The Inverted Sublimity of the Dark Psytrance Dance Floor - Botond Vitos Reviews We Call It Techno! A Documentary About Germany’s Early Techno Scene (Sextro and Wick) - Hillegonda C Rietveld Lost and Sound: Berlin, Techno, und der Easyjetset (Rapp) - Sean Nye Chromatic Variation in Ethnographic Research: A Review of Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race (Saldanha) - Anthony D'Andrea Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa (D'Andrea) - Charles de Ledesma Breakcore: Identity and Interaction on Peer-to-Peer (Whelan) - Emily Ferrigno The High Life: Club Kids, Harm and Drug Policy (Perrone) - Lucy Gibson To be published twice annually, the journal features an advisory board of international experts, http://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/journal/about/displayMembership/3, and has emerged as an extension of the international EDMC research network, Dancecult: http://www.dancecult.net/. Submissions: The journal features a fully electronic submission and reviewing procedure. Once you have logged in and registered as an author you are able to submit content to the journal by clicking on “Author” in your “User Home” column. Once submitted, you are able to track the status of your submission. Dancecult wishes to thank: 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. Graham St John Executive Editor for Dancecult http://dj.dancecult.net/ |
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