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Pia Raddatz is a PhD student and researcher at the Department of Music Sociology. Having started her PhD studies in 2024, Pia’s current research interest lies in Club Cultures of Electronic Dance Music. Pia’s PhD qualitative-empirical project focuses on the processes of cultural consecration and the construction of popular music history and heritage, including its politics of class and gender from music sociological and queer perspectives. Pia has several years of teaching experience at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, and worked for clubs and record labels.
Posts by Pia Raddatz
This year’s Dancecult Research Network conference (DC26) took place from 14 to 15 May 2026 in Prague and focused on “Heritage, Memory and Community in Electronic Music and Dance Cultures” (EDMC for short), drawing scholarly attention to “who defines and holds cultural memory … and what terminologies, narratives, and inequalities shape the way we understand […]
Organised by the ESE-IPVC School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, the ID+ Research Institute for Design Media and Culture, in cooperation with the IPCA Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave, the Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference (PMIC) took place between October 23 and 24 2025 in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. […]
