Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 4-18-2013 12:00 AM Scary Monsters and Pervasive Slights: Genre Construction, Mainstreaming, and Processes of Authentication and Gendered Discourse in Dubstep Kyle Fowle The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Keir Keightley The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Popular Music and Culture A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Master of Arts © Kyle Fowle 2013 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Recommended Citation Fowle, Kyle, "Scary Monsters and Pervasive Slights: Genre Construction, Mainstreaming, and Processes of Authentication and Gendered Discourse in Dubstep" (2013). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 1203. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/1203 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. SCARY MONSTERS AND PERVASIVE SLIGHTS: GENRE CONSTRUCTION, MAINSTREAMING, AND PROCESSES OF AUTHENTICATION AND GENDERED DISCOURSE IN DUBSTEP (Monograph) by Kyle Fowle Graduate Program in Popular Music and Culture A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Popular Music and Culture The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada © Kyle Fowle 2013 ii Abstract This thesis examines discourses on dubstep, a currently popular form of electronic dance music (EDM). The thesis identifies discursive patterns in the received historical narrative of EDM and explores how those patterns may or may not manifest themselves in the current discourses on dubstep.