Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry

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.

Christopher T. Conner is non-tenure track teaching assistant professor of sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

David R. Dickens was professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for thirty-eight years.