'How do you know he's not playing Pac-Man while he's supposed to be DJing?': technology, formats and the digital future of DJ culture.
In light of the growing literature on DJ culture, this article explores how technological change is having a significant impact on specific areas of music production and distribution within contemporary electronic dance music culture. An ethnographic methodology is employed, based around research co...
| Publicado en: | Popular Music Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 397 - 417 |
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Cambridge University Press
Oct2010
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