ABSTRACT
Both concepts, and the associated debates, have informed popular music studies of audiences and consumption. Further reading: Featherstone, 1987; Tomlinson, 1991.
techno Techno emerged as a musical style and meta genre in the 1980s, partly associated with new, computer-generated, sound/composition technologies available to musicians. Techno is often conflated with house and ambient music, or used contiguously with the whole corpus of contemporary dance-music. Techno became closely associated with a particular social setting, being the staple music at large-scale parties-raves-which, along with the associated use of the drug ecstasy, generated considerable controversy (and moral panic) in the early to mid-1990s in the United Kingdom.
