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<div><b>Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures</b></div>
<div>by Graham St John (Equinox, 2009)</div>
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<div>http://www.equinoxpub.com/books/showbook.asp?bkid=392</div>
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<div>"<i>Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures</i> is the most
wide-ranging and detailed of all the books on rave. More than the
study of a musical movement or genre,<i> Technomad</i> offers an
alternate history of cultural politics since the 1960s, from hippies
and Acid Tests through the sound systems and 'vibe-tribes' of the
1990s and beyond. Like Greil Marcus's<i> Lipstick Traces</i>,<i>
Technomad</i> makes unexpected but entirely convincing connections
between people, movements and events. Like Tom Wolfe's<i> The
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test</i>, 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,<i> Technomad</i> is one of the best
books on music I've read in some time."</div>
<div><b>Professor Will Straw</b>, Department of Art History and
Communication Studies, McGill University</div>
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<div>Book description:</div>
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<div>A cultural history of global electronic dance music
countercultures,<i> Technomad</i> explores the pleasurable and
activist trajectories of post-rave culture. 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,<i> Technomad</i> 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.<br>
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<div>Drawing on extensive ethnographic, netographic and documentary
research,<i> Technomad</i> details the post-rave trajectory through
various local sites and global scenes, with each chapter attending to
unique developments in the techno counterculture: e.g. 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.<br>
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Contents</div>
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<div>1. Introduction: The Rave-olution?</div>
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<div>2. Sound System Exodus: Tekno-Anarchy in the UK and Beyond</div>
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<div>3. Secret Sonic Societies and Other Renegades of Sound</div>
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<div>4. New Tribal Gathering: Vibe-Tribes and Mega-Raves</div>
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<div>5. The Technoccult, Psytrance and the Millennium</div>
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<div>6. Rebel Sounds and Dance Activism: Rave and the Carnival of
Protest</div>
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<div>7. Outback Vibes: Dancing Up Country</div>
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<div>8. Hardcore, You Know the Score</div>
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<div>Available in paperback and hardback from Equinox:</div>
<div>http://www.equinoxpub.com/books/showbook.asp?bkid=392</div>
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<div>Or preorder at Amazon</div>
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>http://www.amazon.com/Technomad-Global-Countercultures-Popular-Histo<span
></span>ry/dp/1845536266</div>
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<div>Graham St John</div>
<div>http://www.edgecentral.net/</div>
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