[ecrea] new book: Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures

Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures
Edited by Graham St John

From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn of 
the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate empires, EDM 
(Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into cross-genre, 
multi-city, transnational mega-events. From free party teknivals 
proliferating across Europe since the mid-1990s to colossal corporate 
attractions like Tomorrowland Electric Daisy Carnival and Stereosonic, 
and from transformational and participatory events like Burning Man and 
events in the UK outdoor psytrance circuit, to such digital arts and new 
media showcases as Barcelona's Sónar Festival and Montreal's MUTEK, 
dance festivals are platforms for a variety of arts, lifestyles, 
industries and policies.

Growing ubiquitous in contemporary social life, and providing 
participants with independent sources of belonging, these festivals and 
their event-cultures are diverse in organization, intent and outcome. 
From ethically-charged and “boutique” events with commitments to local 
regions to subsidiaries of entertainment conglomerates touring multiple 
nations, EDM festivals are expressions of “freedoms” revolutionary and 
recreational. Centres of “EDM pop”, critical vectors in tourism 
industries, fields of racial distinction, or experiments in harm 
reduction, gifting culture, and co-created art, as this volume 
demonstrates, diversity is evident across management styles, performance 
legacies and modes of participation.

Weekend Societies is a timely interdisciplinary volume from the emergent 
field of EDM festival and event-culture studies. Echoing an industry 
trend in world dance music culture from raves and clubs towards 
festivals, Weekend Societies features contributions from scholars of EDM 
festivals showcasing a diversity of methodological approaches, 
theoretical perspectives and representational styles.

Organised in four sections: Dance Empires; Underground Networks; Urban 
Experiments; Global Flows, Weekend Societies illustrates how a complex 
array of regional, economic, social, cultural and political factors 
combine to determine the fate of EDM festivals that transpire at the 
intersections of the local and global.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Graham St John

1. A Soft Shell Formation in a New Festival Economy
Fabian Holt

2. Stereosonic and Australian Commercial EDM Festival Culture
Ed Montano

3. Asian American Youth in the EDM Festival Scene
Judy Park

4. Boutiquing at the Raindance Campout
Bryan Schmidt

5. Caring for Drug-Related Crises at Transformational Festivals
Deirdre Ruane

6. DiY Ethics and Democratized Practices of Well-being on the UK 
Alternative Festival Circuit
Alice O'Grady

7. Free Parties and Teknivals
Anne Petiau (transl. Luis-Manuel Garcia)

8. Towards a Cosmopolitan Weekend Dance Culture in Spain
Paolo Magaudda

9. Being-Scene at MUTEK
tobias c. van Veen

10. Dance Camps and Sound Cars at Burning Man
Graham St John

More information can be found at
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/weekend-societies-9781501309335


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