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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
Albiez, Sean. Southampton Solent UniversityWebsite: http://obe-lus.bandcamp.com
Interests: Electronic Popular Music (dance & otherwise), German & French electronica since the 1960s, IDM/Glitch, Techno
Attias, Bernardo. California State University NorthridgeWebsite: 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...
Bates, Eliot. University of MarylandWebsite: 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
Booth, Paul. Manchester Metropolitan UniversityWebsite: 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.
boritz, jason. VIBES DOCUMENTARYWebsite: 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
Bugayev, Nick. Conservatoire de Musique de MontrealWebsite: 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.
Butler, Mark J. University of PennsylvaniaWebsite: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/music/faculty/theory.html
Interests: Musical organization; rhythm and temporality; performance; relationships between technology, improvisation, and composition; gender and sexuality.
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
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
Dalphond, Denise. Indiana UniversityWebsite: http://www.denisedjsdetroit.blogspot.com
Interests: Electronic dance music in Detroit, African American music and culture, history, genre, and performance
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.
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
Farrugia, Rebekah. Western Michigan UnviersityWebsite: http://www.rebekahfarrugia.com
Interests: women and gender studies, sexuality, computer-mediated-communication, social-networking, DJ culture, media and EDM production
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.
Ferrigno, Emily. Wesleyan UniversityWebsite: http://eferrigno.web.wesleyan.edu/
Interests: drum 'n' bass; affect; sampling; production; technology and creativity; technology and gender
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.
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
Goldschmitt, Kariann. University of California, Los Angeles No website
Interests: Brazilian electronica, acid jazz, world music hybrids, house, experimental techno.
Grayson, Kyle. University of Newcastle Upon TyneWebsite: 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
Hall, Jo. University of Surrey (UK) No website
Interests: UK Drum 'n' Bass, dance analysis, youth and popular music sub/club cultures, identity politics
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.
Hunt, Geoffrey. Institute for Scientific AnalysisWebsite: http://www.scientificanalysis.org/
Interests: Youth cultures, identity, electronic dance music culture, dance, raves and clubs and the culture of drug use
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
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.
Johner, Andrew. Appalachian State UniversityWebsite: no web site
Interests: Spirituality and mysticism of electronic dance music culture, 2012 millennialism, religion and the anthropology of consciousness, psytrance
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.
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
Lindop, Rob. University of Salford No website
Interests: Psy-trance music/culture; UK free festivals; popular musicology; dance music scenes; subcultural studies.
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.
Madrid, Alejandro L. University of Illinois at ChicagoWebsite: 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.
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
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
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
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.
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
Moore, Karenza. Lancaster UniversityWebsite: 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.
Morrissey, Lillian. University of SydneyWebsite: 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)
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
Peter, Beate. University of Saldord No website
Interests: EDM and trance, music psychology, unconscious processes on the dance floor, dance as communication
Petiau, Anne. Université Paris 5Website: 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
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.
Rietveld, Dr Hillegonda. London South Bank UniversityWebsite: 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.
Rodkey, Christopher. Lebanon Valley College No website
Interests: Noise in liturgical arts, theological interpretations of industrial music, US Christian electronic music scene
Rowley, Margaret. Michigan State UniversityWebsite: http://womeninthehouse.blogspot.com
Interests: techno; house; women and gender roles in electronic music; minimalism; popular and art music relationships
Seago, Alex. Richmond American University LondonWebsite: http://www.richmond.ac.uk
Interests: Cultural globalization and electronic music, Krautrock.
St John, Graham. University of Regina, SK/University of Queensland AUWebsite: 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 religious movements
Sylvester, Sara. Cardiff University - Journalism, Media and Cultural StudiesWebsite: 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
Thille, Todd. artificialeyes.tvWebsite: http://synesthete.com
Interests: Visualization of music in the dance club setting.
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
Vályi, Gábor. Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsWebsite: 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.
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
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.
Whelan, Andrew. Trinity College, DublinWebsite: http://231074.blogspot.com/
Interests: breakcore, noise, gabber, grind; peer-to-peer and computer-mediated communication; sampling; gender, music and technology.
Winant, Lou. University of WashingtonWebsite: http://home.comcast.net/~lwinant/
Interests: Drum and bass; jungle
 
 
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