IASPM - ANZ

After the initial call for contributions some ten months ago, I am now delighted to announce the launch of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. The first edition of Dancecult, a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC), is now live, with downloadable PDFs accessible at http://dj.dancecult.net. Alongside Managing Editor Eliot Bates and Reviews Editor Karenza Moore - who have thrown themselves headlong into the journal - I am happy to see the EDMC research mothership slide down the sluiceway to begin her maiden voyage.

Dancecult 1.1 2009 Contents:
http://dj.dancecult.net

Editor's Introduction

Featured Articles

IDM as a "Minor" Literature: The Treatment of Cultural and Musical Norms by "Intelligent Dance Music" - Ramzy Alwakeel
Decline of the Rave Culture 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

To be published twice annually, the journal features an advisory board of international experts,
http://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/journal/about/displayMembership/3,
and has emerged as an extension of the international EDMC research network, Dancecult:
http://www.dancecult.net/.

Submissions: The journal features a fully electronic submission and reviewing procedure. Once you have logged in and registered as an author you are able to submit content to the journal by clicking on "Author" in your "User Home" column. Once submitted, you are able to track the status of your submission.

Dancecult wishes to thank:
Eliot Bates for the logo design, pdf layout, and fearless wrangling with the OJS installation.
Todd Thille for web design and banner.
Tobias van Veen and Cato Pulleyblank for helpful advice and suggestions on web layout.

Graham St John
Executive Editor for Dancecult
http://dj.dancecult.net/