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.

chapter |18 pages

Psytrance: An Introduction

ByGRAHAM ST JOHN

part |2 pages

Part I: Goa Trance

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 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