| 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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| Albiez, Sean. Southampton Solent University | Website: http://obe-lus.bandcamp.com |
| Interests: Electronic Popular Music (dance & otherwise), German & French electronica since the 1960s, IDM/Glitch, Techno |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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. University of Pennsylvania | Website: 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. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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. Wesleyan University | Website: http://eferrigno.web.wesleyan.edu/ |
| Interests: drum 'n' bass; affect; sampling; production; technology and creativity; technology and gender |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 Regina, SK/University of Queensland AU | 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 religious 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 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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| 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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| Winant, Lou. University of Washington | Website: http://home.comcast.net/~lwinant/ |
| Interests: Drum and bass; jungle |
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