My Chosen Genre

For my music magazine, I have chosen to create a magazine based on the genre of 'electronic dance music'. This includes many genres such as drum and bass, house, electro and dubstep, however my cover artist, and the genre I will be mainly focused on is drum and bass. I have chosen to do this genre as, although I listen to various different genres ranging from 'indie rock' to 'rap', I would say I listen to EDM a lot more than any other music and I believe I have a vast knowledge of different subgenres. I also chose this genre as I want my magazine to stand out; I noticed not many people were doing dance music and, as I am passionate about it, I wanted to discover the codes and conventions of electronic dance music and electronic dance music magazines. Another reason for my choice of genre is that I feel it has a lot of background to it; although various genres have lots of history to them, I feel the dance music scene is ever-changing (for example, it started out in the 1980's in discotechques, moving onto the rave scene of the early 1990's and nowadays clubbing culture is as popular as ever, with various DJ's constantly appearing in the charts) - it is constantly evolving as time goes on and technology progresses.