[Dancecult-l] Dancecult online bibliography

[eliot bates]

Hello fellow danceculters...

An early and ongoing issue raised by Graham, myself, and many others has 
been creating an authoritative bibliography of electronic dance music 
culture references.

After several weeks of collaboration, Graham and I are proud to announce 
a new site:

http://www.dancecult.net

Which currently contains the following:
 - an ever-growing bibliography of books, book chapters, journal 
articles, dissertations, and lectures/presentations
 - scholar listings (with web links)
 - web resources, including articles, resources, conferences, and journals

The best part of this is that you can contribute online, helping the 
bibliography grow. If you notice that your book is missing, or know of 
articles that should be on the bibliography, just use the convenient 
online form to submit it. If you're a scholar of EDMC, post your 
personal site under the "people" section. Know of an upcoming 
conference? Post it in the web resources conference category. All 
submissions are moderated (we're trying to keep out spam and unrelated 
articles) - meaning that after Graham or I approve it the post will be 
public.

The website is coded in unicode, so that foreign-language submissions 
will show up correctly (please add spanish, french, italian, dutch, and 
german language EDMC articles!) Though we're not currently filtering the 
bibliography by language, that kind of feature would be very easy to add 
in the future. Post to the list or email me privately if you know of 
languages we need to add.

Also, there is a "URL" field for all bibliographic entries. If you know 
of an online version of the article (or, for example, know the google 
books URL for sections of the book in question), post this here. 
Hopefully we can all spend more time participating in raves or other 
electronic music events, and more time being productive scholars, and 
less time trying to search for obscure references!

This site has room for expansion - Graham and I are talking about films, 
documentaries, and other multimedia sources - but let's get started with 
the print sources and websites, and see what kinds of expansion would be 
most relevant.

Let us know what you think!

-eliot

-- 
Eliot Bates
Ph.D. candidate, ethnomusicology (UC Berkeley)
Turkish music, recording studios, electronic music cultures
http://www.eliotbates.com