Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival
Dancecult 2009 DOI: 10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.03 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Visual arts |
| Citations | 38 |
| Key points | Argues that psytrance festivals, exemplified by Portugal's Boom Festival, dramatize participants' "ultimate concerns" through ecstatic, performative, and reflexive trajectories, revealing religio-spiritual characteristics in contemporary trance culture. |
Abstract
is article explores the religio-spiritual characteristics of psytrance (psychedelic trance), attending speci cally to the characteristics of what I call neotrance apparent within the contemporary trance event, the countercultural inheritance of the "tribal" psytrance festival, and the dramatizing of participants' "ultimate concerns" within the festival framework. An exploration of the psychedelic festival offers insights on ecstatic (selftranscendent), performative (self-expressive) and re exive (conscious alternative) trajectories within psytrance music culture. I address this dynamic with reference to Portugal's Boom Festival.
Citations in the library
Cited by 5
- The Watts Connectedness Scale: a new scale for measuring a sense of connectedness to self, others, and world Psychopharmacology August 8, 2022
- Relational Processes in Ayahuasca Groups of Palestinians and Israelis. Frontiers in Pharmacology 2021
- DJ Goa Gil: Kalifornian Exile, Dark Yogi and Dreaded Anomaly Dancecult 2011
- Drugs as part of the psychedelic trance dance party Human Affairs April 1, 2019
- The psytrance party UEL Research Repository 2012