| Abreu, Carolina de Camargo. Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil) | No website |
| Interests: rave, celebration, dance, body techniques, electronic dance music, ecstasy; the anthropology of experience, the anthropology of performance, Walter Benjamin and anthropology; ethnographic video... e-mail: caroldca@usp.br |
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| Adamek, Cathy. University of South Australia, Hawke Institute | No website |
| Interests: Enter interests here...Relationship between motor cities Adelaide and Detroit as sites of early techno production, dance floor/club as improvisational performance space, early hip-hop girl power prototypes Betty Boo, Monie Love, Cookie Crew, Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, microentrepreneurialism; punk to no-wave to rave |
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| Albiez, Sean. Southampton Solent University | Website: http://www.seanalbiez.com |
| Interests: Electronic Popular Music (dance & otherwise), German & French electronica since the 1960s, IDM/Glitch, Techno |
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| Anderson, Tammy. University of Delaware | Website: http://www.udel.edu/soc/tammya |
| Interests: Electronic dance music, popular culture, identity, deviance, inequality, youth culture, sociology of culture, medicalization, cultural criminology |
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| Attias, Bernardo. California State University Northridge | Website: http://www.csun.edu/coms/BioAttias.html |
| Interests: DJ cultures; ritual and EDM; technology and the body; the question of authenticity; cultural hybridity; politics and EDM; consciousness; race; urban space; and much much more... |
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| Attias, Bernardo. California State University Northridge | Website: http://www.csun.edu/mike-curb-arts-media-communication/communication-studies/bernardo-alexander-attias-bio |
| Interests: DJ cultures; ritual and EDM; technology and the body; the question of authenticity; cultural hybridity; politics and EDM; consciousness; race; urban space; and much much more...
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| Bates, Eliot. University of Maryland | Website: http://www.eliotbates.com |
| Interests: Turkish music, recording studios, California underground raves, the interplay between electronic dance music production and avant-garde music composition, collaborative bibliography projects |
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| Besada, Brenda. Universidad de Las Artes (Cuba) | No website |
| Interests: The cuban DJ, DJ cultures; global cultures in local contexts, musical analysis of electronic music... |
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| Bock, Seneca. Social Innovators Design Group | Website: http://www.socialinnovatorsdesigngroup.com |
| Interests: EDM role in social connectedness; future trends in new music; cultural diversity and global harmonic sound systems |
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| Booth, Paul. Manchester Metropolitan University | Website: http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/inc |
| Interests: Rave/Post-Rave Culture Aesthetics, Rave Culture in Cinema, Youth Culture, Social Studies, Drugs, Media Representations, Free Party Scence, Political Formations and Sub-Groups, Neo-Tribes Theory, Technotibes Theory, Documentary, Fictional Representations, UK Scene. |
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| boritz, jason. VIBES DOCUMENTARY | Website: http://www.vibesthemovie.com |
| Interests: I am producing a documentary on evolution of electronic dance music and dance culture. Any help with articles, flyers, research, pictures would be greatly appreciated. I am also learning about the subject, the scene, the music and the culture so I have a great deal of information and resources as well |
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| Breinl, Christiana. University of Vienna (Austria) | No website |
| Interests: free tekno movement (global/local); sound system culture; free party scenes as temporary,autonomous zones; dancing, trance and unconsciousness on the dancefloors; electronic music (acidtekno,hardtekno,jungle,drum and bass,dub,psytrance,electro)and its social and cultural manifestations |
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| Brook, Eric. Full Sail University (Orlando, Florida) | Website: http://www.ericbrook.com |
| Interests: Composition, theory, and the production of EDM. |
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| Bruder, Johannes. University of Basel | No website |
| Interests: History of Detroit Techno, Discourses of Authenticity and Distinction (Sociology) |
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| Bugayev, Nick. Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal | Website: http://www.mrgreynoise.com |
| Interests: Practitioner (producer) of dance music in various genres. Strict counterpoint and melody in EDM, spectacle vs. performance, realtime electronic improvisation, mixing and mastering as harmony and orchestration. Currently (2008) out of school, looking to enter graduate studies. |
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| Butler, Mark J. Northwestern University | Website: http://www.music.northwestern.edu/facultyprofiles/b.html |
| Interests: Musical organization; rhythm and temporality; performance; relationships between technology, improvisation, and composition; gender and sexuality |
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| Colasanti, Natale. Wayne State University | No website |
| Interests: Dance music culture and development of interpersonal relationships within the culture, the communication within the culture, social disclosure within the dance culture |
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| Conner, Christopher. University of Nevada Las Vegas (USA) | No website |
| Interests: Visual Sociology, Club Cultures, Gender, Culture, and Community. |
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| D'Errico, Mike. University of California, Los Angeles | Website: http://theatticbat.bandcamp.com |
| Interests: Production techniques in hip-hop, virtual performance ethics, chiptune and video game music, bass frequencies and sonic embodiment |
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| da Costa Amorim, Luciana. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ( Brasil) | Website: http://www.overmundo.com.br/banco/sampling-transcultural-e-reverberacoes-globais-o-caso-do-drumnbass-brasileiro |
| Interests: electronic dance music, political interest and perception, comparative studies. (the link above has an article about brasilian drum 'n' bass in Portuguese. if you want the english version please contact me_lucota@hotmail.com |
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| Dalphond, Denise. Indiana University | Website: http://www.denisedjsdetroit.blogspot.com |
| Interests: Electronic dance music in Detroit, African American music and culture, history, genre, and performance |
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| Dempcy, Jonah. No college experience | Website: http://independent.academia.edu/JonahDempcy/Papers |
| Interests: Jungian studies, individuation, alchemy, ritual, shamanism, mysticism, Deleuze, Lacan, Zizek, electronic music, jazz theory, altered states of consciousness |
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| DiGiacomo, Cristina. Masters of Science, The New School, New York City | Website: http://www.behindthedecks.org |
| Interests: The DJ creative process, DJ culture and industry. In depth research with DJs on the current state of the artistry, creative process literature, and audience perspectives on dance music. |
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| diotalevi, lisa. University of Strasbourg (France) | Website: http://zalid.free.fr |
| Interests: ethnographer / visual anthropology
Free parties and teknivals across Europe, Psychedelic Trance, Dark Dance.
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| Duivenvoorde, Koen. Free University, Amsterdam (Netherlands) | No website |
| Interests: Dutch and European freetekno-scenes; underground and freeparty scenes; rave, dance, and youth culture; ideology vs. hedonism in youth culture; subcultural vs. post-subcultural theory; modernist vs. postmodernist youthcultural theory; qualitative research in urban settings more generally. |
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| Earp, Matt. School of Information, UC Berkeley (USA) | Website: http://www.kidkameleon.com |
| Interests: Organization of Music, Organization of Info about Music, Dissemination of Info about Music, Dissemination of Music, Peer-2-Peer, Music and Social Networks, Licensing, Music Genres, Live Events, Artistic/Event Crews and Cultures, Localization of Dance Music, Hip-Hop as Dance Music, Sampling, Remix Culture, Concepts of DJing, Dubstep, Breakcore, Baltimore Club, Bloghouse, Music Journalism |
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| Farrugia, Rebekah. Western Michigan Unviersity | Website: http://www.rebekahfarrugia.com |
| Interests: women and gender studies, sexuality, computer-mediated-communication, social-networking, DJ culture, media and EDM production |
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| favour, iyawa. dlta state university abaraka nigeria | No website |
| Interests: Enter interests here...music |
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| Fernandez, Silvestre. University of Manchester (United Kingdom) | No website |
| Interests: Detroit Techno music, African-American popular music, electronic dance music, globalization and resistance, grass-roots vs top-down music industry, cultural and subcultural studies. Appropriation, theft, borrowing and sampling in dance music history. Disco and House music. |
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| Ferrigno, Emily. Yale University Music Library | Website: http://guides.musiclib.yale.edu/index.php |
| Interests: jungle/drum 'n' bass; affect; sampling; technology and creativity; gender |
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| Fink, Robert. University of California, Los Angeles | No website |
| Interests: minimalism and repetition culture; teleology in groove-based musics; interaction between EDM and the "classical" avant-garde; breakbeat hardcore; sampling; music and technology |
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| Garcia, Luis-Manuel. University of Chicago (USA) | Website: http://theluisgarcia.com/ |
| Interests: techno, house, and its minimal subgenres; affect; public culture; tourism & gentrification; urban studies; EDM scenes of Europe and North America; gender & sexuality; intimacy and solidarity; altered states and "coming undone" |
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| Gates, Carrie. University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) | Website: http://www.myspace.com/thesoundsofcarriegates |
| Interests: Avant turntablism, breakcore and gabba, experience and aesthetics, VJ-DJ interaction, music visualization, performative space, DJ orchestras, "the journey", the role of the "fantastic", "Postcolonialism" and technology, somatic knowledge, DIY culture and anti-capitalism, Human-Computer Interaction and nightclub technology. |
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| Gauthier, François. Sciences des religions, UQAM (Québec) | Website: http://www.religion.uqam.ca/fiche_prof.asp?mat=GAUFJ |
| Interests: Subcultures in general including house and techno, the Burning Man festival; consumerism as a cultural ethos; subcultural politics; ritualism; neopaganism; contemporary religiosities; etc. |
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| Gavanas, Anna. Uppsala University (Sweden) | Website: http://www.myspace.com/djgavana |
| Interests: Electronic dance music & technology & spirituality. Gender, sexuality, ethnicity & DJing in Berlin, London & Stockholm. Plus exploring the regionz of dub |
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| Goldschmitt, Kariann. University of California, Los Angeles | No website |
| Interests: Brazilian electronica, acid jazz, world music hybrids, house, experimental techno. |
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| Grayson, Kyle. University of Newcastle Upon Tyne | Website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/geps/staff/profile/k.a.grayson |
| Interests: critical security studies, the securitization of everyday life, biopolitics, popular culture and global politics |
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| Hall, Jo. University of Surrey (UK) | No website |
| Interests: UK Drum 'n' Bass, dance analysis, youth and popular music sub/club cultures, identity politics |
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| Hockman, Jason. McGill University (Canada) | Website: ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/breakscience/ |
| Interests: Computational analysis of Hardcore, Jungle, and Drum & Bass music; production methods; music information retrieval; musicological research; onset detection, beat tracking, and downbeat detection |
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| Holt, Fabian. University of Roskilde (Denmark) | Website: http://www.myspace.com/fabsound1 |
| Interests: Popular musics, esp. in the US and Europe.
Concert and club culture, music public spheres, social and political culture in and around music.
Ethnography, performance theory, and cultural theory of music. |
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| Hunt, Geoffrey. Institute for Scientific Analysis | Website: http://www.scientificanalysis.org/ |
| Interests: Youth cultures, identity, electronic dance music culture, dance, raves and clubs and the culture of drug use |
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| Hyndman, Sheena. York University | No website |
| Interests: EDM, remix, media ecology, critical theory, history of technology, performance as text. |
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| James, Martin. Southampton Solent University (England) | No website |
| Interests: Jungle/ drum'n'bass, French electronic musics and their associated histories.
Post-genre formations in electronica, breakbeat and techno.
The creation of myth in the post-rave era |
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| James, Robin. UNC Charlotte | Website: http://its-her-factory.blogspot.com |
| Interests: My research is motivated by two interrelated aims: to gain a greater understanding of theoretical issues in philosophy (particularly feminist and critical race theories and aesthetics/philosophy of music), and to gain a greater understanding of political and aesthetic issues arising from contemporary American popular music. My work often begins where these two aims meet, i.e., the points where socio-political power (privilege and oppression) and aesthetic values (good and bad art) enter into relationships of mutual determination. |
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| Jasen, Paul. Carleton University, Cultural Mediations (Ottawa, Canada) | Website: http://www.deeptime.net/blog/ |
| Interests: Bodies and sound, sonic geographies, networked culture, black Atlantic music cultures/futurisms, media ecologies. Publisher of Riddim.ca, a North American grime and dubstep hub. |
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| Johner, Andrew. Appalachian State University | Website: no web site |
| Interests: Spirituality and mysticism of electronic dance music culture, 2012 millennialism, religion and the anthropology of consciousness, psytrance |
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| Lasén, Amparo. Universidad Complutense de Madrid | No website |
| Interests: Sociology, electronic dance music culture, clubs, technology, how sound spaces are created, mediations, co-constitution offline and online experiences and relationships, affects. |
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| Leeds, Adam. University of Pennsylvania | No website |
| Interests: Electronic dance music culture (particularly psytrance); face to face interaction; cultural flows; economic globalization and state power |
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| Lindop, Rob. University of Salford | No website |
| Interests: Psy-trance music/culture; UK free festivals; popular musicology; dance music scenes; subcultural studies. |
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| Luckman, Susan. University of South Australia (Australia) | Website: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Susan.Luckman |
| Interests: Outdoor dance music events; EDMC activism; DiY Cultures |
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| Lysloff, Rene. University of California, Riverside | No website |
| Interests: Music and technoculture, rave shamanism, New Age religiosity, music and supermodernity, online global music communities/networks, ecstatic/trance behavior, laptop live performance, new creative processes, performativity/(dis)embodiment. Specific music interests: electronica, IDM, braindance, ambient, trance, New Age, world music hybrids, laptop folk, post-digital, and electronic-electric fusions. |
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| Madden, David. Concordia University (Montreal, QC) | Website: http://www.miraclebabysound.org |
| Interests: sound studies; electronic/popular music; electronic music history; electroclash; studio culture; DJ culture |
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| Madrid, Alejandro L. University of Illinois at Chicago | Website: http://www.uic.edu/las/latamst/ |
| Interests: Critical and Cultural Musicology; Latin American Art and Popular Musics; Electronic Dance Music; Nortec; Afro-Mexican Expressive Culture; Late 19th- and 20th-Century Western Art Music; Transnational History; Border Studies; Cybercultures; Performance Theory; Globalization and Postnationality. |
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| Magaudda, Paolo. Dept. of Sociology, University of Padova (Italy) | Website: http://www.paomag.net/university/ |
| Interests: Technology, music and sound culture; Popular music in Italy; techno and other dance-based subcultures; History of Italian electronic and dance music; local dance scenes; tacit knowledge in electronic music practices |
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| Malone, Seamus. London Consortium | Website: http://www.seamus.net |
| Interests: Detroit Techno, Chicago House, Tech-House, Walter Benjamin, Fredric Jameson. |
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| Mann, Larisa. Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley (Law) | Website: http://djripley.blogspot.com |
| Interests: The relation between copyright/property law and creative practice, Jamaican musical practice, sound systems, technology surveillance and rights, decentered creativity, destroying the author/consumer framework, fan culture.
Also see http://riddimmethod.net, http://wiretapmag.org |
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| Marsh, Charity. University of Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada) | Website: http://charitymarsh.com |
| Interests: Canada Research Chair in Interactive Media and Performance; DJ culture; rave culture in Canada; Canadian Indigenous Hip Hop; On-Line Social Networking; Community Radio; Electronic Dance Music |
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| Martin, Julia. University of Southampton | No website |
| Interests: Digital Technologies, computer mediated communication, sampling, philosophy of technology, Drum and Bass, Jungle, aesthetics of technology, digital audio workstation |
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| McIver, Sharon. University of Canterbury, Aotearoa/New Zealand | No website |
| Interests: The signficiance of the landscape to Aotearoa/NZ dance music and culture - tribalism, carnivalesque, TAZ. Also, the use of found sound sampling in Aotearoa electronic and roots-reggae music. |
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| Moloney, Molly. Institute for Scientific Analysis | Website: http://scientificanalysis.org/ |
| Interests: Youth cultures, gender, sexualities, club drugs, ethnicity, identity, dance scenes, Asian American youth, night-time economy |
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| Montano, Ed. Macquarie University (Australia) | No website |
| Interests: Australian dance music scenes; DJ culture; commercial dance music; local scenes and global networks; technology; the music industry |
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| Moore, Karenza. Lancaster University | Website: http://www.clubbingresearch.com |
| Interests: EDM clubbing, particularly prog/tech trance scenes; 'recreational' drug use in EMD clubbing times and spaces, emergent patterns of drug use (ketamine, GBL, and MDMA powder/crystal); religion and spirituality; transformative potentialities of clubbing; criminalisation of club drugs, clubs and clubbers; war on drugs discourses; UK drug policy; scenes, subcultures, neo-tribes; night-time economies; mainstream/underground dichotomies; club and club drug studies - ethics, insider/ousider status/knowledge, and reflexivity; club survey methdologies; club and club drug ethnographies; harm reduction for clubbers. |
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| moore, madison. yale university | Website: http://www.madisonmooreonline.com |
| Interests: electronic dance music, club cultures as performance, dj cultures, gender and sexuality, live events, indie scenes |
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| Morrison, Simon. University of Leeds (UK) | Website: http://www.padcom.co.uk |
| Interests: The enculturation of the rave scene: the process by which the nascent rave scene was culturally exposed by its representation in film, literature and the media |
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| Morrissey, Lillian. University of Sydney | Website: http://politicsandrhythms.blogspot.com |
| Interests: alternative and underground electronic music, ie(psytrance, drum and bass, jungle, breaks, grime, dubstep,etc) and politics, the relationship between the two, underground music as a political movement (this link leads to a work in progress which may be interesting and which is constantly being updated) |
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| Nye, Sean. University of Minnesota | No website |
| Interests: Electronic music in Germany, industrial, all the cores (trancecore, breakcore, gabber hardcore, happy hardcore), rave and trance |
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| O'Grady, Alice. University of Leeds | Website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/pci/staff/staff_aogrady.html |
| Interests: Underground club culture, performance, club spaces, culture and play, liminality, psy trance culture, social participation, festival culture, interactive performance |
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| Peter, Beate. University of Saldord | No website |
| Interests: EDM and trance, music psychology, unconscious processes on the dance floor, dance as communication |
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| Petiau, Anne. Université Paris 5 | Website: http://www.ceaq-sorbonne.org/node.php?id=885&elementid=550 |
| Interests: Sociology, musical experience in electronic music (club, rave, free party), musicians (creativity, modes of commitment), youth subcultures, electronic music in the wider frame of popular music. Also see http://gremes.ceaq-sorbonne.org |
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| Ratcliffe, Robert. Keele University (UK) | No website |
| Interests: Enter interests here... New forms of hybrid musical discourse; the influence of technology on musical language; sampling and imitative transformation in EDM. |
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| Rietveld, Dr Hillegonda. London South Bank University | Website: http://phonebook.lsbu.ac.uk/php4/person.php?id=71 |
| Interests: Electronic dance music cultures; DJ cultures; global cultures in local contexts; mediation of music cultures; dancefloor subjectivities. |
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| Rodkey, Christopher. Lebanon Valley College | No website |
| Interests: Noise in liturgical arts, theological interpretations of industrial music, US Christian electronic music scene |
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| Rowley, Margaret. Michigan State University | Website: http://womeninthehouse.blogspot.com |
| Interests: techno; house; women and gender roles in electronic music; minimalism; popular and art music relationships |
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| Rugolo, Jennifer. University College Cork (NUI) | No website |
| Interests: Invented traditions; the concepts of tradition and innovation within UEDM; transmission processes; pedagogical approaches to teaching DJ technique, taste, and philosophy; sub- vs. super-culture; the creation of ideology and mythology; the vinyl/digital debate; DJ culture. |
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| saikia, bishnu. gauhati university,assam,india | No website |
| Interests: goa/psytrance- symbiosis of culture,animal kingdom and plant kingdom,east and the west, technology and spirituality, past and the future. dance as a tool for active meditation, self discovery and mass communication.(dept. of communication and journalism,gauhati university) email-bishnu.saikia@yahoo.com |
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| Seago, Alex. Richmond American University London | Website: http://www.richmond.ac.uk |
| Interests: Cultural globalization and electronic music, Krautrock. |
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| St John, Graham. University of Queensland | Website: http://www.edgecentral.net |
| Interests: Electronic dance music culture; psytrance and neotrance; sound system culture; youth subcultures and techno-tribes; the anthropology of religion, performance and ritual; new cultural and spiritual movements |
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| Sylvester, Sara. Cardiff University - Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies | Website: http://snapshotfiction.blogspot.com |
| Interests: I am presently doing a practice PhD in photography and digital narratives. My main interests are Rave/Post-Rave Culture Aesthetics, Rave Culture in Cinema and Novels, Youth Culture, Social Studies, Drugs, Media Representations, Women and Subcultures |
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| Thille, Todd. artificialeyes.tv | Website: http://synesthete.com |
| Interests: Visualization of music in the dance club setting. |
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| Till, Rupert. University of Huddersfield (UK) | Website: http://www.hud.ac.uk/mh/music_technology/research/rupert-till.php |
| Interests: Composing EDMC; Musicological study of EDMC (musical structures, forms, harmonies, rhythm etc.); Ambient/chill out music/IDM; Trance, entrancement and entrainment; EDMC and religion, spirituality & reenchantment; Influence of EDMC on Christianity; Club culture and popular music; Development of UK EDMC from 1986; EDMC in northern England; Sampling and postmodernity; Appropriation of African American dance cultures by other cultures |
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| Vályi, Gábor. Budapest University of Technology and Economics | Website: http://mokk.bme.hu/Members/valyi |
| Interests: Grass-roots processes of cultural transnationalisation, subcultural economies, alternative canon formation. I'm writing my PhD on "crate digging", a hip hop related vinyl record collecting subculture. |
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| van Straaten, Eva-Maria. University of Amsterdam | No website |
| Interests: musical experience, psytrance, space in music-music in space, cultural analysis, difference |
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| van Veen, Tobias C. McGill University (Montreal, Canada) | Website: http://quadrantcrossing.org/ |
| Interests: Dept. Philosophy and Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies. Philosophy of technology & philosophy of technology. Technoculture & AfroFuturism, renegade theory & soundsystem piracy. Foundations of the polis in ritual, faith & rave culture, anarcho-techno |
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| Vitos, Botond. Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) | Website: http://vitos.tv |
| Interests: techno; psytrance; ritual contexts of drug use; music and technology |
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| Walker, Adam. James Cook University (Australia) | No website |
| Interests: Altered states of consciousness in ritual, healing, performance and social psychology; contexts of neutral socialisation; psychedelic trance culture; musicology. |
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| Whelan, Andrew. Trinity College, Dublin | Website: http://231074.blogspot.com/ |
| Interests: breakcore, noise, gabber, grind; peer-to-peer and computer-mediated communication; sampling; gender, music and technology. |
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| Williams, Alex. University of East London, Zero Books | Website: http://uel.academia.edu/AlexWilliams |
| Interests: Accelerationism, Deleuze & Guattari, Reza Negarestani, Nick Land, Death of Rave |
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| Winant, Lou. University of Washington | Website: http://home.comcast.net/~lwinant/ |
| Interests: Drum and bass; jungle |
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