“Get an honest job”. Notes about the Dj and the production of electronic dance music in contemporary culture

Abstract

The expansion of electronic music and long-hour dance parties hours has been a very prominent cultural phenomenon as the century changed. Different studies have referred to these dance practices and their different scenes. However, the DJ / musician, with his/her successive transformations during the process of social legitimation of electronic dance music, is rarely problematized. This paper intends to make an approach to the different moments that the musician/DJ went through, since his/her appearance in the local context as music selector and disc jockey to the recognition as an artist and his/her incorporation in the space of music production.