Electronic Dance Music

This text explores how the Electronic Dance Music subculture transitioned from a marginalized deviant subculture to a billion-dollar culture industry, looking at how the culture’s success has undermined in-group solidarity and marginalized those who helped pioneer it.

Christopher T. Conner is non-tenure track teaching assistant professor of sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. David R. Dickens was professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for thirty-eight years.

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Phase I: Beginnings (1980s-1995) Chapter 2. Phase II: The Rise of the Rave Outlaw (1995-2009) Chapter 3. Phase III: EDM as Culture Industry (2010-2022) Conclusion Appendix: The Rave Act References About the Authors