Overlooking the Scene: Electronic Music and Toronto’s Music City Project (1999–2019)
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2021
Keywords
Electronic Music, Music Scenes, Globalization, Policies, Electronic Music Production, Urban Geography and Urbanism, Toronto
Abstract
Numerous Toronto music venues led the way to an electronic music scene that became more permanently housed within music venues and provided space for intercultural unity and musical innovation. These spaces served as entry points for a generation of electronic music lovers, who later then experienced the loss of those same venues. During the 2000s, the scene ran up against city policies intended to suppress its development, notably the so-called Rave Ban. Culture-led redevelopment policies now see Toronto curating a desire to achieve UNESCO “Music City” status. Recent policy changes influenced by the work of Toronto’s Music Advisory Council, like its revised noise bylaw and incorporation of the Agent of Change principle, carry the potential to shape the future sustainability of Toronto’s electronic music scene(s).
Recommended Citation
Sara Ross, "Overlooking the Scene: Electronic Music and Toronto’s Music City Project (1999–2019)" in Sébastien Darchen, Damien Charrieras & John Willsteed, eds, Electronic Cities: Music, Policies and Space in the 21st Century (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) 79.
