About the Journal

Dancecult is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic music and dance culture (EMDC). A platform for interdisciplinary scholarship on the shifting terrain of EMDCs 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 electronic music and dance culture.

From dancehall to raving, club cultures to sound systems, disco to techno, breakbeat to psytrance, hip hop to dubstep, EDM to IDM, to noisecore, nortec and bloghouse, global EMDCs 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 electronic music and its dance culture, 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 EMDC research network, Dancecult welcomes submissions from scholars addressing these and related inquiries across all disciplines.

Dancecult has a long history of publishing guest edited issues and welcomes proposals for special content. To that end, if you have an idea for a guest edited issue on a relevant subject please contact Executive Editor Graham St John at g.stjohn[@]dancecult.net.

Dancecult is published once a year by the University of Huddersfield and with the support of Maynooth University.

Dancecult is fully indexed with Scopus, DOAJ, EuroPub and RILM. 

Dancecult is also ranked by ANVUR, the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes – in the list of class A journals for artistic sciences (area 10, C1) and in the list of scientific journals for political and social sciences (area 14).