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Survey about EDM culture! :)
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Hello everyone! I am currently an undergrad working on my senior thesis for Anthropology, and I have created a short survey about EDM events and lifestyle. It takes about 5 minutes to complete, and if you have the time to fill it out, I would appreciate it greatly. Thanks in advance! Peace :)
http://freeonlinesurveys.com/s.asp?...bisx5lagq611338
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| DaveT |
Decent survey and done. , but in these days "EDM" is it's own destructive, piece of genre that should rot in hell. :)
Proper Trance, Prog, house, etc is not EDM. :)
Welcome to TranceAddict. No newbies around here. :) |
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
i completed it too. it.
I wonder if it's for some 22 year old Senior thesis or some . If so, that mofo better get me a burrito when he/she graduates. |
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| jonmitz |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaveT
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Proper Trance, Prog, house, etc is not EDM. |
Yes it is. Don't be thick. It's electronic music that you dance to. |
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonmitz
Yes it is. Don't be thick. It's electronic music that you dance to. |
Ban this EDM Bitch!!!
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| GPC |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonmitz
Yes it is. Don't be thick. It's electronic music that you dance to. |
While all us old timers agree with you, EDM has pretty much become it's own genre. |
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| jonmitz |
Now you are switching gears a bit (semantics are important here). I know what music you are referring to by the use of "EDM" in this thread, and let me tell you, you cannot stretch words wide enough in any language to call EDM a musical genre, it is too broad on its own to be a genre, and it's too broad in the context of this thread to be it's own genre. The closest thing I can think of you guys are looking for here is "Top 40 EDM" (which still isn't a genre)
Just because you want to distance yourself from pop culture, doesn't mean the music isn't electronic dance music.
Let me give you a histortal metaphor. Say you like a rock band (Slowdive) who focus on a subgenre that isn't mainstream rock. The media is focusing on all their attention about this new rock music phenomena that is sweeping the nation, but all they are talking about is The Beatles. If we apply your argument, this would mean Slowdive isn't rock, but something else. Obviously neither of these bands were from the same era, but since I wasn't alive back when the beatles were together, throw in whatever other rock bands were around.
In this case, slowdive could be richie hawtin, green velvet, or whomever else, and the beatles would be david guetta, and I want to shoot myself for typing that out, but I hope you see my point. This is a time honoured and repeating argument about genres as certain substyles become popular or mainstream.
e: and to be fair, I would imagine some people would call "Rock" a genre, but I would liken it to more of an umbrella term, that EDM is. |
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| GPC |
| I meant EDM is now it's own genre in the same context as trance, house, techno, dub-step, etc being genre's. Yes, I probably should have said sub-genre. But then can EDM be a sub-genre of a genre called EDM? lol So what would the all encompassing genre be now? Yes, all the above fall under EDM as defined by us. But if I meet someone and I ask them what music they listen to and they say EDM, I am pretty sure what they listen to. I reject the term EDM now. I never say I listen to EDM anymore much the same way we would correct people when they said we listened to techno a decade ago. |
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| GPC |
| And I LOVE Slowdive btw. |
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| jonmitz |
Slowdive rocks (pun, oops)
I have to ask, how do you define EDM then? The names that come to mind: Martin Garrix? David Guetta? Calvin Harris? Tiesto (new tiesto not old)? Gareth Emery? Whose that ty little 14 year old kid who gets all his stuff produced? All of these people have different styles of (my opinion) garbage and fall into top 40 "EDM", but I would still defend that you cannot group them together because they don't have enough common elements. I will concede that I don't listen to this crap except when I hear it in passing or out of curiosity/humor, but from the elements I do hear they are all different enough to fit into already existing (or new) subgenres (i.e. electro house and so forth) |
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
If I hear someone say "I listen to EDM", then I end the conversation of music. Maybe I'll ask them to list their top 3 dj's and their answers never surprise me. It's usually a top 40 EDM dj.
A more "educated" person in Electronic Dance Music would provide a more definitive answer, ie. Techno, Deep House, Trance, etc...
It's kind of like the person that says "RocK" is there preferred choice. A more "educated" listener would probably answer with definitive sub-genre, ie. classic rock, 80's new wave, progressive rock, etc... |
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| DjWoody |
Survery completed.
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