Parsons, WilliamFaubion, James2021-05-032021-05-032021-052021-04-22May 2021Symmes, Thomas Colton. "Dance Music Events." (2021) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/110443">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/110443</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/110443This dissertation studies dance music events in three movements: in a field survey of writings about dance music events, in field work and interviews with promoters of Twin Cities dance music events, and in conversations between the writings and the interviews. Survey, interviews, and conversations are arranged around six reading themes: events, ineffability, dancing, the materiality of sound, critique, and darkness. The field survey excavates these six themes in histories, sociotheoretical studies, memoirs, musical nonfiction, and zines. The field work searches for the reading themes in interviews with six promoters of dance music event series in the Twin Cities named Warehouse 1, Freak Of The Week, House Proud, Techno Tuesday, Communion, and The Headspace Collective. Writings and interviews discover each other in related and distinct conversations that reverberate with the six reading themes. The dissertation learns that dance music event conversations reflect and engage with multiple relevant themes and topics. It participates in conversations about dance music events that are also, often enough, conversations about things besides dance music events.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.EventsMaterialismDancingCritiqueIneffabilityDarknessThesis2021-05-03