Rave Culture and Religion

example, in the longing for earlier youth subcultural moments (hippy, punk, etc.) or earlier rave moments and locations (like th ...

of ‘ancient, natural traditions of ecstatic dance’ amongst a marginal African- American subculture, a ‘liberation of the loins a ...

of ‘ancestral wisdom and new science’ has been manifested, for example, in the Australian-based Chaos Magick-informed Labyrinth ...

explanation of the party’s significance, and indeed that of post-rave culture, will be grounded in a renovation of Turner. With ...

both ‘the other’ and ‘the self’ (Rietveld 1998a: 194) within the process of dance. As the party makes possible a kind of collect ...

Turner’s comparatively sanitary sociality Thus, for Gilbert and Pearson raves contextualize waves of undifferentiated physical a ...

never fixed but always open to transmutations’ (Schütze 2001:160). A cyborgian context for Bakhtin’s grotesque realism, never di ...

possessing a performative quality perhaps more carnival than rite. As parties are carnivalesque stages for the performance of in ...

Truth, nor indicative of a monolithic cultural movement, these are hyper- millenarian events where hybrid-utopias are (re)constr ...

of dancers from that dance that survived’ (Apollo 2001: issues 32 and 9). And, further, house music ‘was born from the souls of ...

festival’s population—‘the Party’ may thus effect a Rapture corresponding to the New Age ‘eschatology’ of self-realization. Impl ...

clubs. Such events may be primal sites, like the original London acid house parties; unlicensed operations in disused industrial ...

performances, community safety, first aid, clean-up and so on of free parties, such as those described by Collin (1997: ch. 6), ...

turning this house into a home’ (Hemment 1996:26). With occupants inhabiting and reinscribing space with an embodied collective ...

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