ABSTRACT
Within the context of electronic dance music events, the DJ (Disc Jockey) can be understood as a musician who manipulates music recordings, synchronizing and blending these into a soundtrack – a musical journey for an audience of dancers, participants, listeners, and bystanders (Brewster and Broughton, 2006; Fikentscher, 1997; 2000; 2003; 2013; Lawrence, 2003). 1
Fikentscher defines ‘the club deejay [as] a pioneering force transforming the relationship between music as defined by performance and music conceptualized as authoritative text’ (2003: 290). Furthermore, Katz (2012: 33) describes performative hip-hop DJs as turntablists, ‘who treat their turntables more like musical instruments than playback devices’. In this way, the DJ operates as a type of curator as well as performing producer (Fikentscher, 2001; Rietveld, 2011; 2013a).
