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Jungle Ph.D's?


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As we all know, the posters on this forum are all serious hardcore obsessives, although I do try to insert some humour and subjective context into what i do... :rolleyes: (I'm a firm believer that an amount of subjective perspective is strictly necessary to quantify the objective)

 

But taking it to a serious university level? Well... I was aware of one major work that was being done by Jason oS :

 

An ethnographic and technological study of breakbeats in hardcore, jungle and drum & bass

Hockman, Jason (2014)

http //digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121313&silo_library=GEN01

 

who started a number of posts on Subvert Central during his research, such as here, here and here - and also posted about this earlier paper on downbeat detection on breakbeats...

 

But whilst looking up about the "hardcore continuum" earlier in the year I happened to come across another paper, on dubstep - Decoding Dubstep: A Rhetorical Investigation of Dubstep's Development from the Late 1990s to the Early 2010s. (2013) [link] - which led me onto finding out about this website:

 

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture

 

I had no idea that people were actually subjecting the study of dance music to a peer-review journal process! Considering we on here spend a lot of time contemplating the minutae of the music of it was quite a surprise

 

So with this in mind, does anyone here have any ambitions to perhaps gain a 'jungle' Ph. D? Or maybe know of any other relevant studies that might be of interest?

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I wrote my dissertation in 1999 on Let Me Be Your Fantasy and subcultural capital with regards to production, audience and.....something else :) It's been a long time :D

 

I got a 1st for the dissertation so it can't have been all that bad.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I wrote my dissertation in 1999 on Let Me Be Your Fantasy and subcultural capital

 

Ahh yes, I remember you mentioning about it on B2VOS, something about the blank looks on the student's faces as you played it? Do tell, would be interested to know more

 

Has anyone had a look at the Dancecult link - there's defo some interesting articles there, here's one:

Darkcore: Dub’s Dark Legacy in Drum ‘n’ Bass Culture Chris Christodoulou

and here's another, debating the objective reality of the hardcore continuum (lol, what?)

The Abstract Reality of the "Hardcore Continuum" Mark Fisher

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Here's another I've turned up:

 

Fragile Empowerment: The Dynamic Cultural Economy of British Drum and Bass Music

Fraser, Alistair and Ettlinger, Nancy (2008)

http://www.sciencedi...016718508000432

 

"This paper discusses the dynamic cultural economy of British drum and bass (D&B) music, which emerged out of Britain’s rave culture in the early 1990s."

 

This one published in Geoforum apparently, a journal focusing on human geography... having difficulty getting my head around even the abstract. What does anyone else make of this?

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