On Thursday, 20 Jan 2022, 16:00 CET IASPM Benelux is curating the January session of the monthly online research seminar of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM):
We are presenting Amsterdance – The Amsterdam Electronic Dance Music Research Group to the international IASPM community. Join us!
The event will take place ONLINE and REGISTRATION is FREE via Eventbrite.
About this event
This is the monthly research seminar of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). This month the event is being curated by the Benelux Branch of IASPM.
Over the last half-century, electronic dance music has become one of the central sonic forces in the field of popular music and set in motion the development of a number of cultural (trans)formations. The physical impact of its repetitive rhythms instigates a profound synchrony on the dance floor, but perhaps due to a historic stigmatisation and associations with hedonism, the sounds and cultures of electronic dance music remain relatively side-lined in academic studies. The Amsterdance research group thus explores the social significance and academic potential of contemporary electronic dance musics in a variety of settings and contexts. In terms of methodology, Amsterdance is thereby inspired by the logic of electronic dance musicking itself: sampling, mixing, and remixing materials. In this seminar, members of Amsterdance will present some of their recent explorations of the dance floor (and beyond), taken from different stages in their research endeavours.
Ian Pocervina
Affiliation: Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam)
Ian Pocervina is a literature major and aspiring musicologist from Luxembourg, currently working on his PhD thesis “Exploring the Rhythms of Techno: A Discussion of Music, Culture, and Everyday Life”.
Sydney Schelvis
Affiliation: Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam)
Sydney Schelvis is a Dutch musicologist, currently working on his PhD project about movement - on and beyond the dance floor - as a catalyst for displacement as a result of gentrification.