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Final Project

Disclaimer: This is my genre post for my final project that I would have posted on a “Reddit” page so I could add to the conversation on why EDM is not trash. My audience of the blog page are youths (16-25 years old), which is the reason for the tone and style of the essay. Enjoy! Recently I have come across a lot of hate about electronic dance music (EDM) as it has become more popular over these last few years. As I have started to listen to EDM more frequently in the past year, the people in my life such as my parents, brother, and even some of my friends have expressed their hatred towards it. A lot of people don’t see the value in the music and consider it to be trashy, with no talent involved in making it.  I've also noticed a lot of people online on websites like reddit that claim rave culture is dumb and they don’t understand it. EDM isn’t just “a bunch of random sounds put together” and I want to prove that. The acronym EDM is an “umbrella” term as it has dozens of ...
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Thought this was funny and fitting to my research!!
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Stakeholder/Genre Analysis

Stakeholder Analysis             T hroughout my research so far, and the previous assignments that we have done in this course, I have a good idea about what my final project is going to be about. I’ve decided to do my research on the EDM discourse community. There are a lot of different groups of people or stakeholders that contribute to this community. The couple of groups that I have chosen that I think contribute the most are Ravers and Producers.             Ravers are the people who actually attend the EDM festivals or raves. This group is the stakeholder group that I am focusing on, as these are the people that make up most of the discourse community. This group spans across the whole world, as there are EDM festivals that occur in many different countries. There are a lot of stereotypes that go along with ravers. One that is commonly said is that they are all t...
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Annotated Bibliography

EDM Research Sources Durkin, Regan. Interview. 1 Mar. 2016.             “Its so accepting, there’s no rejection, and everyone loves each other, the feeling is really hard to explain, but that feeling is what makes me keep going to raves.” This was said by Regan Durkin, a rave goer of 4 years now. I decided to interview a friend of mine who is a true fan of EDM and try to understand more about the culture which will better my research for this topic. Regan also has experience in the business side of raves too, as she’s a promoter for HTG Events, which promotes electronic music events. I started off the interview by asking her what encouraged her to go to her first rave/festival. She told me that EDM had a huge presence in her town that she grew up in and one of her best friends introduced her to it during her freshman year of high school. She wasn’t too into it at first because she thought it was a little intense, but after list...
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