Emotions and Gender in Techno and Electronic Dance Music

The School of Modern Languages, in collaboration with The Byre Theatre, are sponsoring an event which explores the complex emotions at the heart of the global techno and electronic dance music (EDM) scenes—Emotions and Gender In Techno and Electronic Dance Music. Techno has grown from an underground movement in Detroit and Berlin into an international cultural phenomenon: literature, film, TV, advertising, and tourism all tell a complex story about the music’s significance worldwide and in local ‘scenes’. The techno and electronic dance music (EDM) industry are a strongly gendered culture in which elaborate displays of euphoria exist alongside feelings of isolation, self-doubt, frustration, and other negative emotions. Join us for an evening of music and discussions with Glasgow-based DJ and activist Nightwave (Maya Medvesek), acclaimed German writer and musician, Thomas Meinecke, and St Andrews techno researcher Tom Smith.