1. Electronic Dance Music: The Story Jack Spallone

2. Big Five Topic : Homogenized Dance Culture Focus : Music Business, EDM phenomonen Method : Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis Target of Analysis : Rolling Stone Magazine, Artist Accounts Goals : Understand the complex history of electronically produced music to understand better the EDM phenomenon today

3. Lit Review Disco history Rave history DJ history MTV as a cultural cultivator Record labels and their disruption

4. Rolling Stone Ten years of issues 240 articles

5. Discourse Six articles on current state of EDM Varying in opinions, all articles attribute to what is EDM Both negative and positive

6. Findings EDM isn’t everything that’s electronic music. Just those who consider themselves EDM

7. “On my honor, I did not give, nor receive, nor witness, any unauthorized assistance on this work”