Past the Dance Flooring: Feminine DJs, Know-how and Digital Dance Music Tradition

A pathbreaking research of the ladies who create digital dance music, Past the Dance Flooring focuses on the largely uncared for relationship between these girls and the conceptions of gender and know-how that proceed to tell the male-dominated tradition surrounding digital music. On this quantity, Rebekah Farrugia explores quite a lot of essential points, together with the politics of identification and illustration, the bonds shaped by girls throughout the DJ group and the position feminine DJs and producers play on this dance music tradition in addition to within the bigger public sphere.

Although Farrugia primarily focuses on girls's relationship to music-related applied sciences – together with vinyl, mp3s and digital manufacturing software program – she additionally deftly extends her argument to the strategic use of the Web and net design abilities for functions tied to publicity, networking and music distribution.