Date of Publication: 2008-08-01

The author draws on semantic anthropology, ethnomethodology, sociolinguistics, and critical musicology to explore the activity afforded by this controversial and criminalised environment. Through in-depth analysis of often ritually vituperative text-based interaction, discussions of music, and the samples used in that music, Whelan describes the cultural politics and aesthetics of bedroom producer identity, highlighting the roles gender and ethnicity play in the constitution of subcultural authenticity.

Empirically driven throughout, this book also engages with a spectrum of social theory; in doing so, it highlights the intersections between gender, interaction, technology and music. This book will prove valuable for students and scholars with interests in gender and language use, computer-mediated communication, online subcultures and virtual community, and the evolution, production and distribution of electronic music.

Andrew Whelan read Sociology at Ruskin College, and PPE at Somerville College, Oxford. In 2007 he was awarded a PhD in Sociology by Trinity College, Dublin, where he works with the Internet Research Group. His principal research interests lie in the linguistic performance of gender, musical subcultures, and digital humanities.

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