Exploring the Construction and Consumption of Dance Music Spaces Through the Liminal Lens

Electronic dance music culture (EDMC) and ‘clubbing’ has exerted a huge
influence on worldwide youth culture in recent decades and this paper seeks
to expand understanding of this cultural phenomenon, through analysing the
spaces occupied and appropriated by EDMC in terms of their social and
physical construction and corresponding liminal properties. This paper seeks
to contribute to the growing body of knowledge concerning dance music
events, liminality and the conceptualisation of leisure spaces. Empirically
this paper is based on an interpretive, auto-ethnographic research project
exploring contemporary electronic dance music culture and its participants.
A fundamental tenet of this paper is that the concept of liminality is crucial to
understanding the practices and constitution of EDMC and the spaces it
occupies