Colloquium Musicology
Alex van Venrooij, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Thursday 23 May 2019, 15:30-17:00
In the thirty years
since house music first emerged from the club scene of Chicago, this cultural
form has transformed from a local subculture into a global field and in the
process spawned a large number of new subgenres. How do these new subgenres
develop? What is the process by which they emerge and are formed? And does the
emergence of new genres perhaps show some underlying pattern? In this
presentation, I will present some key findings from my research on the
evolution of the electronic dance music field and provide a sociological
analysis of the process of genre emergence.
Alex van Venrooij is assistant professor in cultural sociology at the
department of sociology at the University of Amsterdam. His work has focused on
the emergence, dynamics and effects of classification systems, such as genre
categories, in cultural fields.