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.

Chrisotpher T. Conner is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Faculty in Criminal and Justice Studies at the University of Missouri.

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