Electronic Dance Music:

The StoryJack Spallone

Big FiveTopic : Homogenized Dance Culture

Focus : Music Business, EDM phenomonen

Method : Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis

Target of Analysis : Rolling Stone Magazine, Artist Accounts

Goals : Understand the complex history of electronically produced music to understand better the EDM phenomenon today

Lit ReviewDisco history

Rave history

DJ history

MTV as a cultural cultivator

Record labels and their disruption

Rolling StoneTen years of issues

240 articles

DiscourseSix articles on current state of EDM

Varying in opinions, all articles attribute to what is EDM

Both negative and positive

FindingsEDM isn’t everything that’s electronic music. Just

those who consider themselves EDM

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