Pleasurable and Intersubjectively Embodied Experiences of Electronic Dance Music

How do dancers engage with electronic dance music (EDM) when dancing? This paper reports on an empirical study of dancers' pleasurable engagement with three structural properties of EDM: (1) breakdown, (2) build-up, and (3) drop. Sixteen participants danced to a DJ mix in a club-like environmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ragnhild Torvanger Solberg, Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2017-04-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
Subjects:
EDM
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v11i3-4.5023