The Adventure of Electronic Dance Music

Aryandari, Citra (2016) The Adventure of Electronic Dance Music. In: Performer Present Symposium Yong Siew Toh Singapore, 27-30 Oktober 2016, Singapore.

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Abstract

Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is a music genre which is closely related to Indonesian’s negative judgment. That is because this music genre is associated to the night life which closes to a lot of dilapidated activities such as alcohol and drug abuse. The beat of rhythm presented could provoke almost entire audiences to dance, to forget their wearied days for a while. Though, It maybe commonly believe that this music could help the audiences to forget about their problems of life, yet, the interest of studying this musical genre remains unpopular among scholars. The emergence of EDM in Indonesia, however, can be seen as a picture of complex relation on the societies who start to look for their new identity in the middle of chaos between ideology, politic, and power. Its participation in the world of popular music industry, then, is seen by the postmodernists as a tendency to explicitly mix many music genres consciously. This mixture ranges from a direct re-mix of the recorded song while adding it by the other instrumentations, sounds, and musical tastes, in order to create a new subcultural identity. In this case, subculture identity is symbolically expressed in the style of creative process which is not merely standing as an opposition to hegemony or the way out from social tension. EDM Festival enlivening Indonesian music market is a legitimation of EDM’s grandiose party, as like a magnificent carnival, in which all of the sounds stand on one and only rhythm. There is no higher race among others; there is no man and woman, each individual gather all together. Laugh and social hierarchy melts away and limitlessly assimilate on the beat of rhythm.

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