EDM music-my underappreciated genre

Introduce Your Genre

1. Identify your tentative “underappreciated” genre (or subgenre)

• EDM music is a genre with a ton of subgenres: dubstep, moombahton, house, trance, etc.
• There aren’t many lyrics, it is mostly a combination of sounds with different drops and depending on the sounds and drops used would classify under each subgenre

2. What is interesting to you about this genre? Or, why might it be significant or otherwise worth paying attention to?

• Most people use EDM to describe all the subgenres when they are referring to them— “I like EDM”.
  • That statement has zero context and the very simple fact that someone said that proves that they really don’t understand the variety of choice under the EDM umbrella
• People like certain artists, but don’t like other ones. A lot of times people have a preference to a certain subgenre, but don’t quit realize the difference between all of them,

3. Tentatively, define/describe your corpus (collection of texts/examples)

• Dubstep artists: Zomboy, Excision, Bassnectar, 12^th Planet
• Moombahton artists: Dillon Francis, Bro Safari
• Trance artists: Armin Van Burren, Tiesto, Above&Beyond
• House artists: David Guetta, Avicii, Hardwell, Zedd

4. Provide links (and/or titles) of five samples. (Try to gather samples from more than one “place” [or type] in order to obtain a diverse and accurate representation of the genre. For now, choose samples without significant deviations).

(I’ll just provide a link to each described subgenre)

• Dubstep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5jLCWo6-yM excision
• Moombahton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxGmgmelZV0 bro safari
• Trance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFF0mV24WCY&list=PLaWhWwGJV7oMFuWd2Ok9nuaQzjAAos2aI Tiesto
• House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtF6Jej8yb4&list=PL8MoRdamk_2tTYFUY_AFCx9Gl8dm9p4ev Avicii

Describe the Context

1. Setting: Where (in what context or medium) does the genre appear? How and when is it used? With what other genres does this genre interact? How?

• EDM is a hardcore type of music so it used at clubs, music festivals, and people listen to it when they need an adrenaline rush—the gym, a pregame, etc.
• Within the music industry it crosses into other genres.
  • Trap rap
  • Pop
• It interacts with raves, which is a type of concert or festival, so I guess that could be another genre it interacts with.
• Bumper stickers or laptop stickers are common among the artists as a marketing strategy

2. Subject: What topics, issues, ideas, etc. are common to this genre? When people use this genre, what are they communicating about?

• Because this music is associated with raves/festivals it is associated with inclusion
• EDM Twitter blew up over new years eve and now edm love is spreading throughout social media

3. Writers: Who writes the texts in this genre? Are multiple writers possible? What roles do they perform? What characteristics must writers of this genre possess? Under what circumstances do writers write the genre (e.g., in teams, on a computer, in a rush, for their profession? for fun?)?

• EDM genre’s are actually not hard to get involved in if the person knows how to work a DJ station, which can be taught—anyone can attempt a career in EDM
• Multiple artists are possible, and a lot of times they partner up to get a larger fan base at their sets.
• Artists have the music downloads on their computers, and it’s their career. Artists not famous are creating music for fun

4. Readers: Who reads the texts in this genre? Is there more than one type of reader for this genre? What roles do they perform? What characteristics must readers of this genre possess? Under what circumstances do readers read the genre (e.g., at their leisure, on the run, in waiting rooms)?

• There are fans and producers, but normally EDM draws in a certain crowd
• A lot of people say they hate edm and then eventually find themselves starting to love it
• People who listen to edm are more likely than not friendly, open-minded, and inclusive
• Readers listen to it at raves, in the gym, in the car, wherever they are listening to anything it is edm

5. Exigency/Purpose(s): Why do writers write this genre, and why do readers read it? What purposes does the genre fulfill for the people who use it?

• EDM creates a sense of community so artists create it to spread love, especially at live performances.
• and the fans listen to it because it allows them to spread the love too or because it is a lot of times a hard style of music, it allows fans to rage—headbanger, wooks, etc. (I could also classify the different genres of festival goers which would be cool to look at)