Rave Culture and Religion

Part III Music The techniques of sound and ecstasy ...

8 Selecting ritual DJs, dancers and liminality in underground dance music Morgan Gerard This chapter seeks to explore a contempo ...

sects, clubs, fraternities, Masonic orders and secret societies. And by the publication of From Ritual To Theatre his scope of i ...

that occur while participating in underground dance music events. Among scholars, many of whom count themselves as either longst ...

subcultural signs, Thornton misses the most active illustrations of how her all- important insider/outsider dichotomy is resolve ...

To investigate this process in the context of rave and club events, and with the intention of contributing a more descriptive an ...

drugs dread losing their party favours; ticket holders and those hoping to pay inside, if arriving during peak hours (1.00–3.00 ...

underground dance music point us towards understanding dance’s figurative role in relation to altered states of consciousness (T ...

and produce ‘better’ events in the future; attending events provides journalists and photographers with potentially valuable con ...

later, there were 30 people mingling at bars and four people on the dance floor, only one of whom was dancing. By midnight there ...

record’s time signature, increased the pace of her dancing at the exact point the bass was reintroduced into the mix. Both react ...

climax when everything and everyone flows together, a moment when time seems erased. (Miezitis, in Fikentscher 2000:41) Variousl ...

1 Cream, Montreal 1999 Source: © Caroline Hayeur—Agence Stock Photo ...

2 Free party at Summit of America organized by activists against ZLEA (Zone de libre échange des Amériques), Quebec city, April ...

3 Trance—Festive Ritual, Portrait of the Rave scene in Montreal, 1996–7 Source: © Caroline Hayeur—Agence Stock Photo ...

4 Massage—Festive Ritual, Portrait of the Rave Scene in Montreal, 1996–7 Source: © Caroline Hayeur—Agence Stock Photo ...

5 Beach Party at Half Moon Bay, Black Rock, Victoria, Austra lia, 21 February 1999 Source: © Saskia Fotofolk ...

6 Beach Party at Half Moon Bay, Black Rock, Victoria, Australia, 28 February 1999 Source: © Saskia Fotofolk ...

7 Exodus Cybertribal Festival 2003, Bald Rock Bush Retreat, New South Wales, Australia Source: © Saskia Fotofolk ...

8 Shed 14, Melbourne, 5 September 1998 Source: © Saskia Fotofolk 9 Outback Eclipse Festival, Lyndhurst, South Australia, 3–6 Dec ...