Strand 5 – Challenges to Scholarship and Supporting Research
Where can one locate resources to research house music and early dance music culture? Why is there no established archive or hub? Where should we as researchers be placing our energies and what further questions should be asked?
A handful of academic journals include references to dance music, and only one journal explicitly studies dance music in any meaningful way. There is no centralised archive for dance music research, and there are no scholarship opportunities already established in this area. Furthermore, the texts available for researchers vary substantially in quality and rigour, making the act of research even more challenging. Whilst only a small endeavour, this project attempts to redress the issue but constructing resource lists, questioning texts, questioning standards (particularly around referencing for dance music), and provided a central hub for house music and dance music research. Whilst this is the final strand of research listed here, it is by no means less important than others.
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