Mind usurps program : virtuality and the “new machine aesthetic” of electronic dance music

Halligan, B

Abstract

This chapter outlines the changes in perceptions of Electronic Dance Music across the phase of the introduction of virtuality. The chapter argues that such music must be read in relation to its conception of its audience, and that the audience, often cognitively impaired, responds to the music in a way that suggests ideological positions that redeem the music from accusations of cliché and racism. The chapter notes early theorising of virtuality as giving rise to the idea or potential of a proletarian collective, as had been realised in rave cultures.

Keywords:
Virtuality
EDM
TAZ
DJ
disco
Acid House
Rave
dancing
dystopia
The “Guru Register”
The Californian Ideology
Layo & Bushwacka! (dance group)
Orientalism
Leftfield (dance group)

• Online Publication Date: Mar 10, 2016
• Publication Date: Mar 10, 2016
• Deposit Date: Feb 16, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 10, 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Book Title: Oxford University Press Handbook of Music and Virtuality
• ISBN: 9780199321285
• Publisher URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-music-and-virtuality-9780199321285?cc=gb&lang=en&#