Abstract Israel is a transnational epicenter for psychedelic trance-dance music and culture whose central activity involves attending festive dance parties. While initially avant-garde, currently idiosyncratic forms of trance-dance culture are found among diverse mainstream Israeli communities. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the chapter examines paradoxes in the way that...
Although psychedelic electronic dance music and culture (PEDMC) networks exist across the planet, in Israel this subculture has attained a high degree of mainstream national/cultural prominence. Based on an ongoing ethnographic project, this article discusses Israeli (P)EDMC by comparing and contrasting the multi-functional roles that this music culture plays for two generally non-related local...