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

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Feature Articles

Manuscripts submitted to be published as Feature Articles must be between 6000-9000 words in length (including endnotes, captions and references). They must also include a 150 word maximum abstract. If exceeding 9000 words, submitted manuscripts will be returned to authors. 

Editors:

  • Graham St John

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Transpositions

 This section features foreign-language articles, selected for their quality and contribution to EDMC scholarship, in translation into English. While it is currently beyond the logistical capacities of Dancecult to provide peer-reviewing, editing, and the publication of articles in multiple foreign languages, this new translation project promises to introduce prominent and ground-breaking foreign-language EDMC scholarship to a wider readership, while also increasing the international exposure of non-Anglophone scholars. The articles to be translated for this section are usually selected by the Foreign Languages Editor (FLE), in consultation with the Executive Editor; nonetheless, the FLE will gladly accept suggestions of articles to consider for translation. Email to Moses Iten: moses@dancecult.net

Editors

  • Moses Iten

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Conversations

 Conversations are directly solicited by the editorial board, and are designed to provoke dialogue concerning contemporary issues in the field.

Editors

  • Graham St John

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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.

Editors

  • Alice O'Grady

  • Dave Payling

  • Graham St John

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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

  • Toby Young

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