The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Lancashire, UK. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music, including Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology (co-edited with Lars Kristensen, 2018), Sounds Northern: Popular Music, Culture and Place in England's North (2018), Popular Music in Eastern Europe: Breaking the Cold War Paradigm (2016) and Relocating Popular Music (co-edited with Georgina Gregory, 2015). Her recent monograph on popular electronic music in Vienna is forthcoming in 2019. Mazierska's work has been translated into over twenty languages. She is also principal editor of Studies in Eastern European Cinema.

Tony Rigg is a Music Industry Advisor, Practitioner, Business Consultant, and Educator affiliated with the University of Central Lancashire, UK, where he leads the Master of Arts Programme in Music Industry Management. He has occupied senior management roles in market-leading organizations including Operations Director for Ministry of Sound, overseen the management of more than one hundred music venues and delivered thousands of music events. As an artist/ producer he has a chart pedigree with tracks featured on chart-topping and gold-selling albums. Notable publications include Popular Music in the Post-digital Age: Politics, Economy, Culture and Technology (Bloomsbury, 2018), The Future of Live Music (Bloomsbury, 2020) and The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music (2021), which he co-edited with Ewa Mazierska and Les Gillon and The Present and Future of Music Law (Bloomsbury, 2021), which he co-edited with Ann Harrison.

Les Gillon is a researcher, musician and teacher based at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. In addition to his research in the field of popular music, he also writes about aesthetics and the visual arts. His recent monograph, The Uses of Reason in the Evaluation of Artworks: Commentaries on the Turner Prize (2015), uses the Turner Prize as a case study in order to investigate fundamental questions about the nature, purpose and value of art. He is also active in practice-based music research that explores composition and improvisation techniques, the use of non-western music traditions and interdisciplinary collaborations with dance, moving image and spoken word practitioners.