Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Hillegonda C. Rietveld and Toby Young
  • Part I. Setting the Scene ; Raves as aesthetic experience : the Blackburn Parties / Beate Peter ; The 'Affective Charge' of the 'Inexistent' Dancefloor : Exploring Nightclub Architecture and Design / Catharine Rossi ; Sound System Legacies / Caspar Melville ; Let the DJ Tell the Story: Thoughts on Archiving and Genre Formation in the Age of Electronic Dance Music / Kai Fikentscher
  • Part II. Local and Global Contexts ; Party as Protest : Free Party, Teknivals, Early Rave Scenes and Berlin's Hardcore Techno / Bianca Ludewig ; Angolan Kuduro in the Context of Sound System Cultures of the Black Atlantic / Stefanie Alisch ; Chinese Electronic Dance Music Cultures : An Analysis of their Local Cultural and Social Characteristics / Matthew Ming-Tak Chew ; Taking the Mix to Twitch : Streaming DJ Culture During and After the Pandemic / Tobias C. van Veen & Bernardo Attias
  • Part III. Genre Aesthetics ; Drum and Bass as Cultural Accelerator : Underground Resistance or Ecstatic Concession to Speed? / Chris Christodoulou ; Chill Out : Seeking Ecstatic Trance in Low Tempo EDM / Rupert Till ; Genre Classification in Electronic Dance Music Culture : From Localised Histories to the Bandcamp Underground / Botond Vitos
  • Part IV. Sonic Subjectivities. Timbre and Gesture at the Threshold of Meaning / Maria Perevedentseva ; Pulse Trains : An Autoethnography of Techno Production in Berlin / Nicolas Bougaïeff ; EDM's Secret Technologies / Robert Fink ; Dance Music and Flow / Tami Gadir
  • Part V. Dancefloor Identities ; Feminine Subjectivities : Gender in Electronic Music Production and Performance / Samantha Parsley ; The Divisiveness of the Bass Music Drop in the North American Festival Setting / Edward Katrak Spencer ; Ageing Provocateurs : Responding to Older People's Participation in Electronic Dance Music Culture / Alice O'Grady & Alinka Greasely.