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The most wide-ranging and detailed of all the books on rave. Like Greil Marcus Lipstick Traces, Technomad makes unexpected but entirely convincing connections between people, movements and events. Like Tom Wolfe s The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, St. John s book introduces us to unknown heroes, committed geniuses and genuine revolutionaries. Beautifully written, with a genuinely international perspective on electronic dance music culture, Technomad is one of the best books on music I ve read in some time. --Will Straw, Professor, Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Not to be missed by anyone interested in the study of rave cultures, countercultures and festivals.' --Dr Hillegonda Rietveld, Reader in Cultural Studies, London South Bank University
'A critical utopianism is articulated and celebrated with a textual energy too rare in today's cultural studies. Graham St John is wide-eyed in order to look more closely. I recommend his shining and grubby doofscape to all interested in the radical possibilities and limitations of contemporary culture.' --Professor George McKay, University of Salford
Not to be missed by anyone interested in the study of rave cultures, countercultures and festivals.' --Dr Hillegonda Rietveld, Reader in Cultural Studies, London South Bank University
'A critical utopianism is articulated and celebrated with a textual energy too rare in today's cultural studies. Graham St John is wide-eyed in order to look more closely. I recommend his shining and grubby doofscape to all interested in the radical possibilities and limitations of contemporary culture.' --Professor George McKay, University of Salford
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A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures, "Technomad" explores the pleasurable and activist trajectories of post-rave. The book documents an emerging network of techno-tribes, exploring their pleasure principles and cultural politics. Attending to sound system culture, electro-humanitarianism, secret sonic societies, teknivals and other gatherings, intentional parties, revitalisation movements and counter-colonial interventions, "Technomad" investigates how the dance party has been harnessed for transgressive and progressive ends, for manifold freedoms. Seeking freedom from moral prohibitions and standards, pleasure in rebellion, refuge from sexual and gender prejudice, exile from oppression, rupturing aesthetic boundaries, re-enchanting the world, reclaiming space, fighting for 'the right to party', and responding to a host of critical concerns, electronic dance music cultures are multivalent sites of resistance. Drawing on extensive ethnographic, netographic and documentary research, "Technomad" details the post-rave trajectory through various local sites and global scenes, with each chapter attending to unique developments in the techno counterculture: example Spiral Tribe, teknivals, psytrance, Burning Man, Reclaim the Streets, Earthdream. The book offers an original nuanced theory of resistance to assist understanding of these developments. This cultural history of hitherto uncharted territory will be of interest to students of cultural, performance, music, media, and new social movement studies, along with enthusiasts of dance culture and popular politics.
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Groundbreaking and already an all time classic!
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In this book, cultural anthropologist Graham St John documents the emergence and implications of global electronic dance music countercultures. Based on unique ethnographic, netographic and documentary material, St John discusses Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in its diverse global, local and glocal contexts. He documents music scenes illustrating nine interrelated modes of resistance; Dionysian, outlaw, exile, avant, spiritual, reclaiming, safety, reactionary and activist. Throughout the book, St John gets into themes and scenes in detail like the "protestival;" the role of EDM in carnivals of resistance like "reclaim the streets"; the role of EDM techno-activists in counter-colonial actions in Australia; the history of EDM at Burning Man in the U.S.; as well as the techno-punk crossover in Sydney. There is also a chapter on psytrance and the technoccult. Moreover, St John chronicles the UK sound system exodus - especially with Spiral Tribe's move to the continent and the teknival emergence in Europe and North America.
St John's "Technomad" is an outstanding theoretical and empirical contribution to the emerging field of Electronic Dance Music studies. St John offers ground breaking and complex theoretical discussions on resistance, counterculture, music/media studies and globalization. Written in an absolutely mesmerizing style, "Technomad" offers invaluable insider accounts and documents crucial events in EDM history. This book is already an all time classic, and indispensable to anyone interested in the diversity of EDM practices and intentions, and its multiple impacts on contemporary global cultural politics.
St John's "Technomad" is an outstanding theoretical and empirical contribution to the emerging field of Electronic Dance Music studies. St John offers ground breaking and complex theoretical discussions on resistance, counterculture, music/media studies and globalization. Written in an absolutely mesmerizing style, "Technomad" offers invaluable insider accounts and documents crucial events in EDM history. This book is already an all time classic, and indispensable to anyone interested in the diversity of EDM practices and intentions, and its multiple impacts on contemporary global cultural politics.
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