I only read the IDM one, but I have to say that like much academic writing, it was rather poor because the writer was trying to use a mish-mash of concepts vaguely associated with post-structuralist and post-modern literary theory in a seemingly random fashion. The result was incoherent, the kind of stuff that leads people to discount such literary theory.
However, I must add that the actual philosophy of, say, Deleuze is quite rigorous and not at all a bunch of nonsense. My belief is that a lot of grad students have only taken survey courses and have never fully delved into even a single philosopher in a rigorous way, so it's not surprising that their writings are unstructured and somewhat incomprehensible. ~David On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Fred Heutte <ph...@sunlightdata.com> wrote: > I've just begun reading the articles and don't know yet if it's going > to be mostly academic self-absorption (rampant in the field of > ethnomusicology where this journal is roughly situated). So far it's > fairly lively and the article about trance is a hoot. And having > people like Hilly Rietveld writing is a plus. So far I'm liking it :) > > All the articles are online, the index page is: > > http://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/journal/issue/current/showToc > > fh > > ------------------------ > > http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/page/4/ > > Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture > > By Bruce Sterling October 10, 2009 | 4:31 pm > > *Man, the academy can devour ANYTHING! > > *Worse yet, this sounds remarkably interesting! I’m afraid I’m going to > have to read this. > > http://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/journal/index > > Vol 1, No 1 (2009) > > Table of Contents > Editorials > Editor’s Introduction > Graham St John > > Featured Articles > IDM as a “Minor” Literature: The Treatment of Cultural and Musical Norms by > “Intelligent Dance Music” > Ramzy Alwakeel > > Decline of the Rave Inspired Clubculture in China: State Suppression, Clubber > Adaptations and Socio-cultural > Transformations > Matthew M Chew > > Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival > Graham St John > > Too Young to Drink, Too Old to Dance: The Influences of Age and Gender on > (Non) Rave Participation > Julie Gregory > > DJ Culture in the Commercial Sydney Dance Music Scene > Ed Montano > > From the Floor > Convergence and Soniculture: 10 Years of MUTEK > tobias c. van Veen > > The Hardcore Continuum? > Jeremy Gilbert > > The Abstract Reality of the “Hardcore Continuum” > Mark Fisher > > 12 Noon, Black Rock City > Graham St John > > The Inverted Sublimity of the Dark Psytrance Dance Floor > Botond Vitos > > Reviews > We Call It Techno! A Documentary About Germany’s Early Techno Scene (Sextro > and Wick) > Hillegonda C Rietveld > > Lost and Sound: Berlin, Techno, und der Easyjetset (Rapp) > Sean Nye > > Chromatic Variation in Ethnographic Research: A Review of Psychedelic White: > Goa Trance and the Viscosity of > Race (Saldanha) > Anthony D’Andrea > > Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza > and Goa (D’Andrea) > Charles De Ledesma > > Breakcore: Identity and Interaction on Peer-to-Peer (Whelan) > Emily Ferrigno > > The High Life: Club Kids, Harm and Drug Policy (Perrone) > Lucy Gibson > >
