Department / Cultural Studies

Electronic Music and Dance Culture

EDM studies the social, cultural, and environmental structures around electronic music — event ecosystems, participant behavior, and the role music plays in collective identity formation.

EDM lecture hall studying scene history and event design.

Department Overview

EDM moves from lecture, to field, to seminar across three terms — students learn the genres and venues, then study real festivals as working systems, then produce original scholarship in the senior seminar.