[Dancecult-l] Change of PhD direction- refs for party logistics info

[Sam Carroll]

Hi Charlie,
This sounds like interesting stuff, but I'm not sure exactly what you  
mean by
"party process" - I've been writing about swing dancers and their  
dances, DJing and music, with a fair bit of emphasis on how DJs  
manipulate energy and the 'vibe' at a dance (particularly at  
exchanges where all-night dancing happens every night of a long  
weekend) to keep people moving all night, and perhaps more  
importantly, to develop a shared dance 'experience'.

But I know nothing about the sorts of scenes most of you guys are  
working on - so could you explain 'party process' a little more, please?

BTW I read this list with interest, but rarely have anything  
interesting to add. Particularly as swing dancers are notoriously  
straighty-one-eighty. Lindy hop is such a physically and technically  
demanding dance, most dancers don't drink and dance, let alone  
experiment with other substances.

Sam Carroll.

On 20/10/2006, at 10:57 PM, charles de Ledesma wrote:

> Hi everyone, my PhD focus has changed from a more general overview  
> of the pys trance phenomenom to a tigher anatomy of a party  
> situation. To this end I'm now looking at theoretical stuff  like  
> Latour's 'Action-Network-Theory', virtual communities, network  
> society, Hetherington's development of the heterotopia,  
> occcasionalism and utopia concepts,and the like.
>
> But, has anyone seem study/papers on the logistics of party-making  
> or even better, any theory on the 'party-process'? I like the idea  
> of looking at this process (abstract or in situ) as a 'collection  
> of technologies' building the scene for the arrival of the  
> communitas-laden moment ...any leads??Of course, this doesn't need  
> to be just from the land of psy trance....
>
> Graham - what was that book on Burning Man you showed me one  
> steaming afternoon in Portugal?
>
> Regards, Charlie in London.
>
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