The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance (Hardcover)

List of Plates and Figures Psytrance: An Introduction, Graham St John Section I: Goa Trance 1: Goa is a State of Mind: On the Ephemerality of Psychedelic Social Emplacements, Luther Elliott 2: The Decline of Electronic Dance Scenes: The Case of Psytrance in Goa Anthony, D’Andrea 3: The Ghost of Goa Trance: A Retrospective, Arun Saldanha Section II: Global Psytrance 4: Infinite Noise Spirals: The Musical Cosmopolitanism of Psytrance, Hillegonda Rietveld 5: Psychedelic Trance Music Making in the UK: Rhizomatic Craftsmanship and the Global Market Place, Charles de Ledesma 6: Re-evaluating Musical Genre in UK Psytrance, Robin Lindop 7: (En)Countering the Beat: Paradox in Israeli Psytrance, Joshua I. Schmidt Section III: Liminal Culture 8: DemenCZe: Psychedelic Madhouse in the Czech Republic, Botond Vitos 9: Dionysus Returns: Contemporary Tuscan Trancers and Euripides’ The Bacchae, Chiara Baldini 10: Weaving the Underground Web: Neotribalism and Psytrance on Tribe.net, Jenny Ryan 11: Narratives in Noise: Reflexivity, Migration and Liminality in the Australian Psytrance Scene, Alex Lambert 12: Liminal Culture and Global Movement: The Transitional World of Psytrance, Graham St John Notes on Contributors Index