RAIDFest Details: https://dancecult-research.net/dancecult-raidfest-2021/
Panel sessions are 1 hour total, papers are 15 minutes followed by 5 mins questions
All times UTC +1 hr (UK Time)
Day 1. Thursday 16th September
| 9.00 | Conference site open |
| 10.45-11.00 | Welcome from the host |
| 11.00-12.20 | Paper Session A – Dance Culture in the time of Corona (Chair: Dave Payling)
· Melanie Ptatscheck – The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Mental Health of German EDM DJs · Zoe Armour – The ‘Virtual EDM-Event’: Family viewing during the Covid-19 Pandemic · Euan Pattie – Dance music and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The perspective of UK artists on sustaining and developing careers in the absence of live music events. · Vincent Jenewein – Has anything actually changed? Considerations on political economy and ideology within the post-Covid EDM scene |
| 12.20-12.40 | Break |
| 12.40-14.00 | Paper Session B – Tempo Tribes, Flow States, Digital Cumbia, and Raving Poetry (Chair Botond Vitos)
· Graham St John – Raving Poet of the Apocalypse: Terence McKenna as Medium · Moses Iten – The DJ-as-researcher approach: Methods emerging through ‘digital’ cumbia fieldwork · Nicolas Bougaïeff – Bridges Between Tempo Tribes: A Practice-Based Study of Metric Modulation in Techno · Rupert Till – Flow States: An Autoethnographic Study of Ambient Techno and Chillout Music Production. |
| 14.00-14.30 | Break |
| 14.30-15.30 | Panel 1
· Alistair Fraser, Brian Belle-Fortune, Sarah Sandy, DJ Flight, Chris Christodoulou – A panel discussion on the impact and significance of Brian Belle-Fortune’s ‘All Crew Muss Big Up’ |
| 15.30-16.30 | Break |
| 16.30-17.50 | Paper Session C – Collaboration, Convention and Communities (Chair: Toby Young)
· Stefano Fasciani – Back-To-Net – A system for collaborative DJ set over the Internet · Ivan Mouraviev – Anatomy of the DJ Set: Genre, Style, and Structure in Bass Music Performance · Anita Jóri “This one is at least CTM-ish…” – Discourse on Discord · Kirsten Hermes – 8-bit Music on Twitch: how the Chiptune Scene is overcoming the Pandemic |
| 17.50-18.30 | Break |
| 18.30-19.50 | Paper Session D – New Spaces and Practices in Global Dance Music Scenes (Chair: Alistair Fraser)
· Ciara Power – Free The Night in Northern Ireland · Chris McGuinness -Recovering Sample Authorship: Deepest India and the Case of Sohan Lal · Pavel Niakhayeu – #CoVideoWatching: sharing the pandemic experiences in comments under YouTube music videos · Anna Gavanas, Johan Jansson, Vera Schlaucher Ståhl – Curated by pioneers, spaces and resistance: the development of electronic dance music in Stockholm |
Day 2. Friday 17th September
| 10.00-11.20 | Paper Session E – Renegade Raves and the New Dance Floor (Chair: Anita Jori)
· Maria Giaever Lopez – ‘Suicide rigs’ in the free party scene: negotiating fun amidst lockdown restrictions · Business Teshno (Amir Lehman) – Whiteness in Electronic Music: the Paradigmatic Case of Plague Raves · Richard Anderson – Plague Raving: DJ Culture in the Pandemic · César Lugo-Elías – The importance of space and materiality: Notes for the design of the dance floor of the future |
| 11.20-11.40 | Break |
| 11.40-13.00 | Paper Session F – Identity, Empathy, Ecstatic Dance and Virtuality. (Chair: Graham St John)
· Liam Maloney – “Redlining & Religion”: A Socio-Economic Argument for House Music’s Identity · Stephanie SK Marbach – Separated Through the Screen – Can We Still Connect? An Auto-Ethnographic Case Study on Virtual Ecstatic Dance Gatherings During Lockdown · João Beira and Emília Simão – The evolution of electronic music in the Covid era: Creating visualization strategies beyond the screen. |
| 13.00-16.00 | Break |
| 16.00-17.20 | Paper Session G – Disco, Nightlife and Online Spaces (Chair: Emília Simão)
· Jack McNeill – Site-Making in Club Culture: Creative Strategies for Building Club Spaces Online.· · Alexei Michailowsky – “Daya Dou Doum” (1974) – a retrospective study of Patsy Gallant’s possible first steps towards disco music · Flora Pitrolo and Marko Zubak – Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s: Disco Heterotopias |
| 17.20-17.40 | Break |
| 17.40-19.00 | Paper Session H – Special Effects of Musical Dancing: Connections, Identity Work, Wellness, and Vibrations. (Chair: Tommy Symmes)
· Tiago Andre Moreira Pereira – Boomland, the (re)connecting experience has been postponed (again) · Jason Del Gandio – The EDM Vibe: More than Affect · Jasmine A. Henry – Sounds of the “Hyperghetto”: Sonic Counter-Storytelling in Jersey Club Music Performance |
| 19.00 | Break |
| 1915-20-15 | Panel 2 · tobias c. van Veen, Bernardo Attias & Maria Alexandra Urbano – Taking the Mix to Twitch: Online DJ Culture During the Pandemic |
| 20.15 | Conference Close |