Have you ever wanted a deeper understanding of the dancefloor culture you’re a part of? Dance music as we know it has existed for roughly 30 years, with deeper roots in disco and electronic experimentalism that go back even further. There’s a new generation of ravers who are increasingly curious about the “history.” If that’s you, then you’re in luck, because THUMP has put together an intensive “university-style” online course that delves into exactly that.
“Welcome to your first semester of THUMP University! This introductory course seeks to give students a foundation in a handful of the most important electronic dance music genres, broadly defined, with special attention paid to the key personalities, recordings, and clubs that helped shape and popularize them,” the introduction to Dance Music 101 tells us.
It does indeed deep-dive into the topic, providing a whole semester’s worth of reading, with as many as 20 texts listed in a single week. These cover all the important points you need, like “Electro,” “Detroit Techno” and “Chicago House,” all the way through to the final readings in week 12 that inevitably touch upon “EDM.”
No time to waste! Commence your semester readings now over at Dance Music 101: An Online Reading Course ,thanks to THUMP .
