Abstract
Addressing a transnational network of relationships within electronic dance music in the context of the machine aesthetic of techno, this chapter shows that a diverse global music scene is possible. Accompanied by a form of futurism, techno scenes embrace the radical potential of information technologies in a seemingly deterritorialised manner, producing locally specific responses to the global technoculture that can differ in aesthetics and identity politics. In this sense, the electronic dance music floor embodies a plurality of competing ‘technocracies’.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music: Reaching Out With Technology |
| Place of Publication | New York (USA) and London |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 21 May 2018 |
Keywords
- globalisation
- the technoculture
- techno subgenres
- machine aesthetic
- electronic dance music