Rave Culture and Religion

Notes 1 In late 1993, on assignment from Details magazine, I visited Goa in order to write about the psychedelic techno scene th ...

Tramacchi, D. (2001) “Chaos engines: doofs, psychedelics and religious experience,”in G. St John (ed.) FreeNRG: Notes from the E ...

14 Goa trance and trance in Goa Smooth striations Arun Saldanha Let us admit that we have attended parties where for one brief n ...

Poststructuralism and postmodernism lend themselves quite well to an adoption in rave studies. The Nietzschean celebrations of d ...

chakras figure in everyday conversations. Anjuna’s hedonism and spiritualism have there fore always existed, not side by side, b ...

Faces and bodies To offer a sense of how poststructuralism relates to spirituality let me focus on the collaborative work of Gil ...

BwO than others (provided they go about their experimentation in a careful manner). Witness the blend of spiritualism and anarch ...

the observing ego, except the series of sensations which happened—not to me, but just happened—moment by moment, one after anoth ...

broke. Although Plateau 14 is at pains to show that the smooth and the striated presuppose each other and can only exist in thei ...

ten hits from a chillum, and not every psytrancer assumes the role of chillum- maker. There can be irritation about “chillum hop ...

Sunrise politics Since about 1997, Goa trance music has become progressively darker and more minimal. The old type of multi-laye ...

When prompted about it, a DJ admitted he intentionally plays the very dark trance at night to make “the Indians” leave. The hard ...

thud so much they get their exhaust altered to increase the volume. It seems as if they want to trace their ego in thuds whereve ...

domination and resistance, regulation and freedom, discipline and trance, habit and transcendence cannot be so easily disentangl ...

culture,” as most of the methodology and evaluative schemes are common to the study of each. 2 The evidence presented here deriv ...

McRobbie, Angela (1994) “Shut up and dance: youth culture and changing modes of femininity,” in Postmodernism and Popular Cultur ...

15 Dancing on common ground Exploring the sacred at Burning Man Robert V.Kozinets and John F.Sherry, Jr Where on Earth can you f ...

ideologies, and literatures. Although not exclusively a neo-pagan event (or any other distinctive or exclusive kind of event), i ...

intense and ongoing. The techno beats also signify a sonic transcendence, a uniting of primal drumming with digital waveforms. D ...

reported through email, another anonymous and uncertain medium. However, the story we present is typical of many other types of ...