Trance events have an uncanny ability to capture an era, and
captivate an audience of travellers occupying the eternal theatre
of the dance floor. As this book shows, the tendency within
psytrance is to thwart the passage of time, to prolong the night,
for those who adopt a liminal lifestyle. Amid the hustle and hubris
of the psytrance carnival there is a peaceful repose that you
sometimes catch when you've drifted into a sea of outstretched
limbs, bodies swaying like a field of sunflowers in a light breeze.
And you feel intense joy in this fleeting moment. You are the
moment. You are inside the flow. You are all. Embodying the poetry
of dance, you are living evidence that nothing lasts. And this is a
deep revelation of the mystical function of trance. It is difficult
to emerge from this little death, because one does not want the
party to end. But it must end, even so that it can recommence - so
that one can return to repeat the cycle. The result of fifteen
years of research in over a dozen countries, this book applies a
sharp lens on a little understood global dance culture that has
mushroomed all over the world since its beginnings in the diverse
psychedelic music scenes flourishing in Goa in the 1970s and 1980s.
The paramount expression of this movement has been the festival,
from small parties to major international events such as Portugal's
Boom Festival, which promotes itself as a world-summit of visionary
arts and trance, a "united tribe of the world". Via first-hand
accounts of the scenes, events and music of psychedelic trance in
Australia, Israel, Germany, Italy, the UK, the US, Turkey and other
places, the book thoroughly documents this transnational movement
with its diverse aesthetic roots, multiple national translations
and internal controversies. As a multi-sited ethnography and an
examination of the digital, chemical, cyber and media assemblage
constituting psytrance, the book explores the integrated role that
technology and spirituality have played in the formation of this
visionary arts movement and shows how these event-cultures
accommodate rites of risk and consciousness, a complex circumstance
demanding revision of existing approaches to ritual, music and
culture.
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