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The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

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The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

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The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

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The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance book

ByGraham St John
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 8 June 2010
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203847879
Pages 270
eBook ISBN 9780203847879
Subjects Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences
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St John, G. (2010). The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203847879

ABSTRACT

This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon, the collection hosts interdisciplinary research addressing psytrance as a product of intersecting local and global trajectories. Contributing to theories of globalization, postmodernism, counterculture, youth subcultures, neotribes, the carnivalesque, music scenes and technologies, dance ritual and spirituality, chapters introduce psytrance in Goa, the UK, Israel, Japan, the US, Italy, Czech Republic, Portugal and Australia. As a global occurrence indebted to 1960s psychedelia, sharing music production technologies and DJ techniques with electronic dance music scenes, and harnessing the communication capabilities of the Internet, psytrance and its cultural implications are thoroughly discussed in this first scholarly volume of its kind.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Psytrance: An Introduction

ByGRAHAM ST JOHN

part |2 pages

Part I: Goa Trance

chapter 1|19 pages

Goa is a State of Mind: On the Ephemerality of Psychedelic Social Emplacements

ByLUTHER ELLIOTT

chapter 2|15 pages

The Decline of Electronic Dance Scenes: The Case of Psytrance in Goa

ByANTHONY D’ANDREA

chapter 3|12 pages

The Ghost of Goa Trance: A Retrospective

ByARUN SALDANHA

part |2 pages

Part II: Global Psytrance

chapter 4|20 pages

Infi nite Noise Spirals: The Musical Cosmopolitanism of Psytrance

ByHILLEGONDA RIETVELD

chapter 5|25 pages

Psychedelic Trance Music Making in the UK: Rhizomatic Craftsmanship and the Global Market Place

ByCHARLES DE LEDESMA

chapter 6|17 pages

Re-evaluating Musical Genre in UK Psytrance

ByROBIN LINDOP

chapter 7|18 pages

(En)Countering the Beat: Paradox in Israeli Psytrance

ByJOSHUA I. SCHMIDT

part |2 pages

Part III: Liminal Culture

chapter 8|19 pages

DemenCZe: Psychedelic Madhouse in the Czech Republic

ByBOTOND VITOS

chapter 9|16 pages

Dionysus Returns: Contemporary Tuscan Trancers and Euripides’ The Bacchae

ByCHIARA BALDINI

chapter 10|17 pages

Weaving the Underground Web: Neo-Tribalism and Psytrance on Tribe.net

ByJENNY RYAN

chapter 11|17 pages

Narratives in Noise: Refl exivity, Migration and Liminality in the Australian Psytrance Scene

ByALEX LAMBERT

chapter 12|27 pages

Liminal Culture and Global Movement: The Transitional World of Psytrance

ByGRAHAM ST JOHN
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