Focus Rock: Electronica

Focus Rock: Electronica - Body Electric -
Electronic Pop and Dance Music

This class looks at the development of electronic
popular music from its early days to its conquest
of the international dance floors, creating the
international rave community, and follows it
further into abstractions such as
glitch-electronica, the combination of
experimental and post-techno electronica. The
development will be traced from pioneering
academic electronic music through early
electronic use in popular music such as
psychedelic, prog-rock, krautrock, ambient, and
synth-pop into all-electronic euro-disco, EBM,
EDM, IDM, house, techno, drum n bass, glitch
electronica and noise. Besides historic, social
and politic aspects, the class focuses strongly
on musical analysis of the discussed styles.