Part I Production, Performance, and Aesthetyics: Conceptualizing rhythm and meter in electronic dance music, Mark J. Butler-- The aesthetics of failure: 'post-digital' tendencies in contemporary computer music, Kim Cascone-- When sound meets movement: performance in electronic dance music, Pedro Peixoto Ferreira-- The disc jockey as composer, or, How I became a composing DJ, Kai Fikentscher-- 'A pixel is a pixel. A club is a club': toward a hermeneutics of Berlin style DJ and VJ culture, Sebastian Klotz-- On the process and aesthetics of sampling electronic music production, Tara Rodgers-- Producing kwaito: nkosi sikelel' iAfrika after apartheid, Gavin Steingo-- From refrain to rave: the decline of figure and the rise of ground, Philip Tagg.-- Part II The Body, the Spirit and (the Regulation of) Pleasure: Sampling sexuality: gender, technology, and the body in dance music, Barbara Brady-- The spiritual economy of nightclubs and raves: osho sannyasins as party promoters in Ibiza and Pune/Goa, Anthony D'Andrea-- In defence of disco, Richard Dyer-- Soundtrack to an uncivil society: rave culture, the criminal justice act and the politics of modernity, Jeremy Gilbert-- In the empire of the beat: discipline and disco, Walter Hughes-- 'I want to see all my friends at once': Arthur Russell and the queering of gay disco, Tim Lawrence-- Sampling (hetero)sexuality: diva-ness and discipline in electronic dance music, Susana Loza-- Dancing with desire: cultural embodiment in Tijuana's nortec music and dance, Alejandro L. Madrid-- I feel love: disco and its discontents, Tavia Nyong'o-- Electronic dance music culture and religion: an overview, Graham St John.-- Part III Identities, Belongings, and Distinctions: Post soul futurama: African American cultural politics and early Detroit techno, Sean Albiez-- 'I want muscles': house music, homosexuality and masculine signification, Stephen Amico-- Mr Mesa's ticket: memory and dance at the Body Positive T-dance, Fiona Buckland-- The dancer from the dance: the musical and dancing crowds of clubbing, Ben Malbon-- Genres, subgenres, sub-subgenres and more: Musical and social difference within electronic dance music communities, Kembrew McLeod-- Shut up and dance: youth culture and changing modes of femininity, Angela McRobbie-- Women and the early British rave scene, Maria Pini-- The death of the dance party, Kane Race-- Music tourism and factions of bodies, Arun Saldanha-- Exploring the meaning of mainstream (or why Sharon and Tracy dance around their handbags), Sarah Thornton-- Name index.